Richmond Hate Crime Claimed - Alarm To Those Who Think All Is Well

This story below reminds me -- in a remote way -- of a small but disturbing matter that happened at Cafe Van Kleef and to me.


I was talking to a couple of fellow Cal grad friends who were both white and female when I made a motion that accidentally bumped into this person as he walked by. No big deal, to me. But this guy said "That was intentional" and after I said it wasn't and he was reacting weirdly, then said "It's reverse discrimination in Oakland" -- he was White.


I told him to go away as that was sick. This matter reported in the Sf Chronicle is worse:

(02-01) 18:40 PST -- Brandon Manning says he never saw it coming.


One minute he was hanging out with seven seemingly friendly guys in a park, the next he said he was on the ground, the blows coming from all sides, a fist or foot landing hard enough to fracture six bones in his face.


But it was the words accompanying the blows that made Manning, 24, think he was about to die.


"Coon." And then, "How do you like this, you f-ing n-?"


A week after the Jan. 24 incident, Richmond police officers arrested seven East Bay teenagers on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon - a hate crime investigation delayed five days because of a police clerical error.


The seven are white. Manning is black.


"I don't understand how somebody could do that in this day and age," Manning said Sunday. "I never, never thought it would happen to me."


Not in California and not in the East Bay, Manning said.

Preventing hate crimes is our job as a society regardless of color. If you're White and see this happening to someone, get involved, otherwise the way society turns is partly your fault.