Is there any evidence that the white couple was intentionally seeking "black" slaves? Or were they simply seeking children they could adopt and abuse. If it turns out they intentionally sought black children to use as slaves, they should have "hate crime" added to their sentence which adds up to ten years to their sentence and they should get 10 years for each of the five children.
But while this is a horrible story, I don't think it is representative of where the majority of people are on race, however, there is evidence that identity politics is contributing to greater racism, so we need to be careful overfocusing on skin color when a crime occurs at least until we know (not suspect) that racism played a role in the crime.
I have no tolerance for abusing children or hate crimes. Regarding children, as mentioned we are seeing Hispanic girls are being trafficked all over the west coast thanks to Biden's immigration policies, no matter how compassionate he thinks his immigration policies are... they are not.
On the broader issue of hate crimes, have you ever studied why blacks are disproportionately more likely to commit hate crimes than any other racial group according to the Hate Crime Statistics within the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program?
Is there racist anger being promoted by isolating examples of racist acts against blacks resulting in a racist response? Blacks were identified as responsible for 21% of hate crimes vs whites who were responsible for 51% of hate crimes in 2022. In sheer numbers, whites commit more hate crimes, but as pointed out blacks disproportionately commit them. Any thoughts about why?
Looking at hate crimes there does seem to be a "media" and world news component to them. For example, hate crimes against transgender people rose 35% in one year and even more against Jews (36% in one year). Why do you think these two groups experienced such a surge in hate crimes over one year? What caused people to suddenly wake up and say let's go abuse Jews and Trans people? Is there any equivalency to the causes of those surges and a general increase in hate crimes.
Are hate crimes more likely to be committed by people who feel victimized or people who feel they are in positions of power? If we are serious about addressing "hate crime", we need to understand the causes and to what degree we are unintentionally "green lighting" such behavior by positioning people as belonging either to a group of victims or oppressors.
