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Chocolate Hate Crime

So let's get this straight. The Naked chocolate Jesus in New York is not a hate crime, but this is? I don't get it, and neither does [black writer] Clarence Page: Many of us black Americans look through the prism of historical experience and see old-style Southern injustice against blacks, symbolized by the nooses. A series of racially charged incidents in Jena led to charges of attempted murder, that were later reduced, against six black high school students who beat up a white student. Black students reportedly said the white youth had made racial taunts. Many whites hear about the beaten white youth and, regardless of whatever else contributed to local racial tensions, they see an old-style black-on-white hate crime. FULL STORY...

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