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In reply to the discussion: Another Unarmed Black Youth Shot & Killed. Darius Simmons was Only 13 Years Old [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)According to the FBI, there is no group targeted for hate crimes more than blacks (which could also include gays of course, not that the average racist takes the time to figure out if the black person they're brutalizing is gay or a student/parent/mayor etc. or not).
Stop checking Rosco's Stats and Facts where it sounds like you're getting your data and read the stats from the nation's law enforcement arm, the FBI.
Snippet for you:
"Of the 6,628 hate crime incidents reported to us for 2010, nearly all (6,624) involved a single bias47.3 percent of the single-bias incidents were motivated by race."
"Among the single-bias hate crime incidents in 2010, there were 3,949 victims of racially motivated hate crime. A closer examination of these victim data showed that: 70.0 percent were victims of an offenders anti-black bias.: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-victims
"Of the 6,008 known offenders, 58.6 were white and 18.4 percent were black."
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/hatecrimes_111411