Julia Gorin Article By Donnel Jones, May 20, 2003

Drop what you are doing now and go read this superb editorial from the Wall Street Journal by Julia Gorin, contributing editor of JewishWorldReview.com. Ms. Gorin underlines the problematic nature of identity politics, or the diversity game, practiced by Democrats. Here is the $ quote.

The Assi case demonstrates that progressive legislation meant to target society's whiter and, when relevant, straighter elements has already gone awry (albeit not for law enforcement officials, who are glad to make use of any tools allowing them to be tougher on crime). Premised on punishing motivation over crime, and on the logic that killing a Jeffrey Dahmer because he is gay is worse than his killing people because he gets hungry, application of hate-crimes laws promises to get even stickier: According to the Justice Department's National Crime Victimization Survey, 90% of interracial crimes involve a white victim and a black perpetrator. Yet witness the dearth of charges resulting from the 2001 Fat Tuesday mob violence against white celebrants in Seattle. Will things get even stickier if a black man one day decides to beat up a gay man--or, worse, kill a black lesbian, as may have been the case in Newark, N.J., last week?

Needless to say, the application of justice is indeed biased according to skin color, but not in the direction you'd expected if listening and believing in liberal propaganda.

I suppose the law will prosecute so-called "hate crimes" if committed by blacks against whites? Fat chance. Which is one reason why hate crime legislation should be killed in its infancy. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration supports this legislation (except as applied to gays, which is wrong because it discriminates against that group and creates a needless double-standard). I hope the President wakes up and realizes he, and his party, should avoid the Democrat's diversity game all together.

Let us all be equal before the law, not some more equal than others by unnecessary and special protection by the law.