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Originally Posted by Grausamkeit
It depends on how that idea is expressed.
There has been more white-on-minority racism in America than any minority-on-white. Hence why racism is normally seen as something 'them white folks' do.
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That just simply isn't true.
Some stats favor us both because they are soo skewed. One thing to keep in consideration with stats is that when (as you can see when filling out certain forms that ask you to state your race) when latinos are the perpetrator of a crime they are listed as white, when they are the victim of a crime they are listed as hispanic/non-white. One 2007 report for L.A. (which is something you have to consider in respect to population demographics) says that "The majority of these crimes was motivated by bias against race/ethnicity and national origin. In “antiblack” crimes, 71 percent of suspects were hispanic; in anti-hispanic crimes, 56 percent of suspects were black." While for the first one whites were 25% and 32% for the latter. It also needs to be considered that massive ammounts of documented events in which during a black on white crime racial slurs were used and perps who were captured by police even admitted that their attacks were racially motivated STILL were not prosecuted nor the case treated as a hate crime. Still with roles reversed when a black was a victim of a white individual or group it was treated as a racially motivated attack even when no racial slurs were used.
It may also be relevant to state that white, heterosexual males are the only group not specifically protected under hate-crime legislation.