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Still had no bearing on the time frame or discussion.

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You're mistaken. My comments were quite cogent. You failed to keep up with the context.

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with respect, when have you ever heard of a black person being charged with a hate crime in comparison to whites charged? Would you say there is a discrepancy by the government to equally charge in instances of clear racial crimes?

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Yes, and I'll say that that goes both ways, given the incidence of harsher penalties for black people when charged with the same crime as a white counterpart. Racial discrepancies in the handling of legal cases is hardly something new (if anything, it's better now than it was before--and that's sad), nor does it favor minorities as a whole in the least.

However, none of the above is as pervasive as "separate but equal" (and let's be clear that the supposed "equal" was far from it in reality) being the law of the land, no matter how you try to spin it.