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Jan. 27, 1999

Hate crime laws should be invoked

I am confused about the two Miami University students charged with vandalism for hanging the Ku Klux Klan signs. My confusion lies not in what they did but in the charges. If a white man had been responsible for this vandalism, he would have been charged with a hate crime, but once again the minority privilege rears its ugly head.

These signs were posted to create dialogue? They were posted to fire up hatred towards

whites and nothing else. Let’s call a hatemonger a hatemonger and start executing the law without prejudice.


Tim Donk, Dillsboro, Ind.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Jan. 27, 1999

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