Hate Crimes Don't Count

Apparently the local news in Pittsburgh only cares about hate crimes when a minority is allegedly victimized. Even a perceived slight garners spotlight if there's so much as a remote possibility that a caucasian may have done something that might possibly be construed as discriminatory.

But when white people are targeted, the media doesn't even mention it. Think of a quiet neighborhood that’s about 100% residential & offers no attractions of any kind. There are 3 neighborhood bars but one of them is frequented by senior citizens & usually closes in the early evening. The neighborhood doesn’t have any stores at all, not even a convenience store. There are no restaurants, laundromats or any other businesses at all anymore except a funeral home.

The neighborhood is more than half white but is racially mixed & everyone gets along. It’s quiet, safe & residents venture outside of it for necessities & entertainment in all forms.

Now think about youths from other neighborhoods venturing in just to cause trouble. They vandalize the homes & vehicles. They throw bricks through the windows of these sad little bars & rob them on a regular basis. They go into these quiet neighborhood bars where everyone knows each other & start fights with strangers for no reason. They beat up people walking down the street. They steal cars, bikes, break into homes & equipment sheds, mug residents & more.

If white kids were regularly going into non-white residential neighborhoods to destroy property, vandalize, steal, rob & beat up people walking down the street, it would garner media attention. But if they were only targeting property owned by non-whites, it would be all over the news.

And if those white youths were singling out minority men & violently beating them six to one, the local media would be overwhelmed with public outrage.

But when 6 black men cause trouble in a white-owned bar in a neighborhood where they don't live, then go outside & beat up an innocent white resident, then vandalize the bar, that's not even newsworthy. Where is the outrage about the racial motivation of the attack?

Yesterday a young man in Polish Hill was walking down the street just blocks from his own home & was brutally beaten for no reason by 6 men. After the vicious attack, the cowards capped their performance by breaking windows of the quaint neighborhood bar they had just exited.

Sidebar: If they were trying to show how "tough" they are, they did a piss poor job by beating him 6 to 1.

The victim spent the night in the ER & went home after sunrise with about 20 stitches, only to be rushed back late this morning. As his face continues to swell, the stitches in his mouth tore his wounds & spewed a fountain of blood.

The owner of the bar has had so much trouble lately with minority patrons instigating violence in his establishment that he's giving up & trying to sell the place. The former owner of the bar had the same problems. Every few Saturdays, a group of gangbangers from the nearby Hill would come in with shotguns & hold up the bar. It stopped for a while but all of the old problems are starting up again.

There's a van that drives around the neighborhood periodically. It stops, non-resident blacks get out & they grab everything they can carry from nearby homes. Planters, windowboxes, flags, mailboxes & anything else that residents might have outside of their home. Then they all get back in the van & take off with everyone else's belongings.

Residents are seeing an increase in stolen & vandalized cars, lawnmowers, sports equipment, bicycles, locks cut off of equipment sheds, trespassering & vandalism of all kinds.

Black youths are traveling to neighborhoods where they don't live or know anyone specifically to commit violent & criminal acts. If it's not racially motivated, why aren't they beating up random black people? The area is racially mixed but they are specifically targeting whites only.

Case-in-point: How many times did we have to hear the saga of white Baldwin students driving through Brashear's campus flying rebel flags? It was seen as offensive, insensitive & by some, even criminal. The students were threatened with being banned from their own high school graduation for something they did outside of school.

No matter how offensive you find their actions, the truth of the matter is that this is America & everyone is entitled to free speech. Their actions had nothing to do with the fact that they had successfully completed high school, thus making them eligble to be at the ceremony.

Yet somehow that right can be taken from them by an entity that doesn't have any authority over them outside of school?

As a nation, we bend over backwards to right imagined "wrongs" yet regularly turn a blind eye to true injustice.

In today's culture of political correctness, we manage to punish white offenders above & beyond the actual scope of our authority. When will we implement the same standards for everyone else? Shouldn't equality span all aspects of our society?