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Originally posted by ShotGunRum
Your personal feeling towards hate crimes make absolutely no difference to the fact that black people get persecuted for hate crimes just like white people do.
Originally posted by ShotGunRum
The prosecution has to have evidence that the crime was motivated by race,gender, religion, etc. If not you will just be prosecuted with regular charges. And just because an interracial crime takes place, that does not mean it is a hate crime, like many racist people like to think for whatever reason.
He was found guilty of murder, aggravated assault and carjacking among other counts.
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Thandiwe's motivation to kill white people stemmed from a racial bias against white people taught "during his later years as an anthropology major at the University of West Georgia.
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During his testimony Wednesday, Thandiwe suggested that his reason for even purchasing the gun he used in the shootings was to enforce beliefs he’d developed about white people during his later years as an anthropology major at the University of West Georgia.
“I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today,” he said. “In terms of slavery, it was something that needed to be answered for. I was trying to spread the message of making white people mend.”
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