Sunday, January 08, 2017

Ebony Magazine: Hate Crimes Can't Be Committed Against White People Or Cops

Ebony Magazine: Hate Crimes Can't Be Committed Against White People Or Cops | The Daily Caller:
"On Wednesday, Ebony Magazine’s Jamilah Lemieux criticized the use of the phrase “hate crime” in association with the five white Dallas police officers who were killed claiming that using the phrase with a “majority group… gets into very tricky territory.”
Jamilah Lemieux, Screen Grab CNN, 7-13-2016Appearing on “CNN Newsroom” with guest host Ana Cabrera, Lemieux said, “I have to say, I would not describe hate crime as the most comfortable word choice, considering these circumstances. 
There’s so much that we do not know about what took place, what motivated this person. We only have the one account of law enforcement.
...“When we use a phrase like ‘hate crime,’ we’re typically referring to crimes against people of color, people of various religious groups, LGBT people, people who have been historically attacked, abused or disenfranchised on the basis of their identity.
To now extend that to the majority group and a group of people that have a history with African-Americans that has been abusive, and we can apply that to either police officers or to Caucasians,
I think gets into very tricky territory...”

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