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04/27/2005 11:23 PM ID: 47753 Permalink   

Black Student Accused of Hate Crime for Threatening African-American and Hispanic Students
 

Bannockburn, Ill-- Alicia Hardin, 19, confessed on Monday to sending threatening letters to fellow minority students at Trinity International University, a small Christian school near Chicago. She was arrested Tuesday, and is currently free on bail.

Hardin was unhappy at the school and sent three hate letters in an attempt to convince her parents that the school was unsafe. One letter sent to a black female student said, "I saw you in the chapel...I had my gun in my pocket but I wouldn't shoot."

Police say there was never a serious threat, but 40 minority students were moved to a hotel last week as a precaution. A school spokesman said, "..this wasn't really about race." 25% of students at the school are minorities.

 		 
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  Isn't all crime, a hate crime? n/t  
 n/t 
 by: tellgar     04/28/2005 12:55 AM     
  huh?  
 She hates her own race? I can be accused of a hate crime for beating up a white guy? I'm confused... 
 by: kolman36     04/28/2005 02:13 AM     
  Hate Crime  
 It is not a hate crime just because your victim is a minority or is a different race from you. It is a hate crime because you chose the victim specifically because of their race, nationality, religion, etc.  
 by: Jsmurf     04/28/2005 03:29 AM     
  "Hate Crime" is retarted.  
 If someone takes a baseball bat and beats a man to death because the man looked at him funny, why is that a lesser crime than beeating someone to death because they are gay? I understand the hate crime idea, but I don't agree with it. Both men in this hypothetical situation are dead, but for some reason the gay man's death is worth greater punishment because he was gay.

Homosexuals are gay. True statement or hate crime?		 
 by: rapscaLLion   04/28/2005 05:46 AM     
  @rapscal  
 Uh.... 'retarted'?

Before using the word 'retarded' you better spell it correctly. There are better words to choose from... (for the sake of the overly politically-sensitive people on Shortnews who might think you are engaging in hate-speech against mentally-handicapped).

Hate-crimes raise the ire of various populations that have been victimized solely for their sex/race/age/sexual-orientation/etc. A hate-crime can perpetuate itself by inspiring other people to commit similar acts.

The confusing part about it, for me, is when people decide to call a crime a hate-crime. I think black-on-black violence which happens in huge numbers in America are hate-crimes but go down as routine violence.

In this case, with Hardin, It's definetly inspired by race, and perhaps gender.

... burning a mosque, for example, is a hate-crime.

Homosexuals are gay? That's not a hate-crime.... it's a badly formed question.		 
 by: theironboard     04/28/2005 06:01 AM     
  tools ahoy!  
 Jsmurf, of corse 25% of a skool is a minority. How can anything less than 51% ever be a majority? tool.

theironboard, stfu. there's nothing wrong with saying "retard" and stop bitching about spelling that doesn't matter either. Stop being a bleeding heart		 
 by: ethniccleanser   04/28/2005 07:23 AM     
  How was it not about race?  
 In attempt to get her selfish ass out of that school, the girl knocked up letters sent them to minority students, regardless of her race that's a hate crime and especially if she meant it or not!!!

Bunch of KKK guys send fake letter bombs to black senators or governors, and go "haha just kidding" sorry, that shit doesn’t wash		 
 by: koultunami     04/28/2005 01:36 PM     
  A hate crime is a terrorist acts against a group.  
 Imagine the effect on tall people if some person or group of people were going around shooting only people taller than 5'11. Every single tall person who heard about this would be terrified. The would be afraid to carry on their ordinary lives for fear that simply being tall in public would get them killed.

All those tall people who are now afraid are the victims of an act of terrorism. The intended victims are not the people who got shot, but the people who are now afraid to leave their homes. Depending on how widely the story of the crime is dispersed, that is potentially thousands or even millions of tall people who are affected.

When we prosecute the killer(s) for the hate crime of terrorizing tall people, we are not making a judgement on the value of tall people versus short people. We are just recognizing that there are other victims who have been affected by the crime.

--JS


 
 by: Jsmurf     04/28/2005 04:19 PM     
  wow.  
 how profound. You are soo enlightend jsmurf. It's not the same as the height of two people does not make them very different from each other, (unless a midget) but skin colour does. How much more different can two people be than one black and one white? 
 by: ethniccleanser   04/29/2005 04:41 AM     
  @ethniccleanser  
 how about a rational one and an irrational one? 
 by: jaded fox     04/29/2005 04:48 AM     
  Interesting point of view..  
 ..EthnicCleanser, I never really thought of it that way before.  
 by: Jsmurf     04/29/2005 02:33 PM     
 
 
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