The left likes to talk about hate crimes, so I’m curious as to what they’d call this:

It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend’s home in South Akron.

Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ”This is our world” and ”This is a black world” as they confronted Marshall and his family.

The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black.

So you have a racially-motivated attack, but will the left call it a hate crime? Probably not, because to liberals, hate crimes can only be attacks against minorities, gays, and Democrats. See, it doesn’t work both ways, as the recent SCOTUS decision made clear. There’s no such thing, to a liberal, as hate crimes or discrimination against whites.

For what it’s worth, I think the term “hate crime” is stupid. It’s either a crime or it isn’t and, if it is, then the full weight of the law should be brought to bear against the perps. The victim is no more or no less victimized because of his skin color or sexual preferences. Justice, as the saying goes, should be blind.

Update: Just so we’re clear on this, I feel that the entire “hate crime” agenda is based on political correctness and thought control. What legislation like this does, basically, is to make it illegal to have a certain type of thought. Until laws like this starting going on the books, it wasn’t against the law to say or believe certain things, regardless of whether they were right or wrong.

Take this latest round of political correctness, for example:

First it was the National Hispanic Media Coalition calling on the FCC to probe what it feels is hate speech by conservative talk radio hosts. The group claims it isolated 334 incidents of hate speech by John & Ken of KFI, Los Angeles, Michael Savage, and Lou Dobbs in eighty minutes of tape.

Then it was minority groups petitioning the FCC to investigate the new radio ratings system called the Portable People Meter because they feel it under represents the ratings on urban radio stations and is unfair. The meter can’t lie and registers in real time what radio stations those who wear the device are hearing. Make sure all groups are fairly represented and all should be fine.

Now, midgets want the FCC to ban the word “midget.” This latest controversy erupted following an April episode of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” in which contestents, including Joan Rivers suggested “bathing midgets in detergent and hanging them out to dry.” Now, the “Little People of America” are asking the FCC to ban the word “midget” from broadcast airwaves because it is demeaning.

Now, I’m not saying for a minute that it’s ok to make fun of midgets or any other group, but what is the problem with using the word? Seriously, I want an answer. It’s like using the word “retarded” to describe a mentally handicapped person. There is nothing at all with that word (as opposed to calling some person a retard), yet it’s forbidden in this day and age, lest we offend someone.

Quite simply, whenever a liberal talks about “hate crimes” what they’re really talking about it thought control. You never, ever hear of a hate crime against a white, heterosexual male because, by definition (liberal definition, anyway), that’s simply not possible. Liberals don’t believe there can be such a thing as reverse discrimination or the like.