I can't believe someone could write a column like this with a straight face. The media seems to me to be desperately trying to spin this as "not a hate crime" and equally desperately showing up the falsity of all notions of hate crimes.

Its like when they thought up the line "Islamo-fascist" to justify the war. It was a weak line, it never resonated with the general public, and its use actually undermined their war effort, but a handful of egghead Jew intellectuals kept pounding the term over and over thinking it was the most effective propaganda idea since the Holocaust(tm).

Just more proof that the kikes and those who live in their little world are out of their friggin' minds:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/423682,CST-NWS-mitch12.article

No conspiracy, just another heinous crime
Media didn't try to cover up black-on-white murders

June 12, 2007
BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist
What happened to Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, is almost too horrible to contemplate.
The Knoxville, Tenn., couple fell victim to four crazed young criminals during a carjacking. The perpetrators allegedly kidnapped Christian and Newsome and brutally raped both of them before killing them.

Newsom was shot, his body burned and dumped beside the railroad tracks. Christian was strangled and left in garbage bags.

This heinous crime occurred in January. But it wasn't until recently that the tragedy has been talked about outside of blog posts on the Internet. Maybe that wouldn't have been the case had people not felt the need to embellish these already sordid facts with outright fiction.

Because Christian and Newsom were white and their alleged killers are black, the couple's brutal murder has been fodder for people who are convinced that the "mainstream" media conspired to keep this sickening black-on-white violence out of the news.

Lurid details fabricated
Most of the complaints I get are from readers who claim that murders of black victims are often ignored or downplayed, while a homicide involving a white victim -- especially one from an affluent suburb -- is front-page news. It doesn't do a lot of good to try to explain to them that there are so many homicides involving black victims that the media could not possibly report them all as front-page news.
So it is a little surprising that we are now being beaten-down because this story didn't go national. Last week, that changed when several national columnists stepped up to sort the fact from fiction in this case. And on Sunday, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page story on the murders under the headline: "What is a hate crime?"

It probably took so long for this story to get legs, so to speak, because of the incendiary claims about what happened to Christian and Newsom before they were killed that have been spread on the Internet. For example, a Web site dedicated to debunking urban legends posted an e-mail that is reflective of the e-mails I've gotten about this crime:

"The animals pictured below car-jacked, then raped Christopher Newsom, cut off his penis, then set him on fire and fatally shot him several times while they forced his girlfriend, Channon Christian, to watch. . . . Channon Christian was beaten and gang-raped in many ways for four days by all of them, while they took turns urinating on her. Then they cut off her breast and put chemicals in her mouth. . . . then murdered her."

Frankly, the truth is horrible enough. So it is difficult to see the embellishments as anything other than a white supremacist rant.

Was it inspired by hate?
Fortunately, the painful truth about this terrible crime is slowly emerging -- painful because it's just another tragic example of how lost and how disturbed some young people are.
We know now that Christian and Newsom were not mutilated, that Christian was not raped over four days and she was killed within one day of the kidnapping.

But even without the explosive false accusations, these murders raise legitimate questions about the way in which some crimes are labeled "hate crimes."

For instance, while Newsom's father, Hugh Newsom, initially agreed with law enforcement that the crime was not racially motivated, the heinous nature in which the killings were carried out has him wondering whether race did indeed play a role in the murders.

"I don't think it started out that way, but from all indications we have, it developed into that," Newsom said in published interviews.

That would mean that there's reason to believe the four black attackers would have treated black victims differently. It would mean that these criminals probably would not have kidnapped and raped a black couple, or that they would not have tried to cover up their crime by killing their victims.

Black-on-black crime just as vile
I understand how Newsom's father feels. What happened to his son is incomprehensible. But given the coldhearted black-on-black crimes that continue to tear apart urban communities, there's not much basis for such an argument.
Black victims have often been killed in horrible ways, and those murders weren't reported, either.

Like all senseless murders, even if it's not classified as a hate crime, it is still a matter of hate.