The Associated Press is reporting about a horrific crime that occurred recently in West Virginia. According to the press account, a 23-year-old black woman was abducted by six white people -- including two mothers and their adult children -- who held the woman captive in their home, and repeatedly beat, stabbed, and sexually assaulted her. This went on for one week or more, until the woman was discovered and rescued by law enforcement...
The focus of the AP story was not on the crime itself, however, but on allegations (made by the victim's mother) that the attackers used the "n-word" every time they assaulted the victim. Thus, the crime was not merely a heinous, brutal victimization of a young woman -- it was a "hate crime." According to the story, the FBI "is looking into possible civil rights violations." As if being beaten, stabbed, and raped is not a "civil rights violation..."
The rest of this Steven Warshawsky article is here at the American Thinker.
