David Ritcheson was flung into the national spotlight when he was attacked at a party in Houston. You may remember the Mexican-American teen that was 'sexually assaulted with a pipe' and beaten and burned with cigarettes. While the attack was a brutal reminder of the brutality that exists today, it was also labelled as a hate crime.
Young Ritcheson will testify before Congress in the hopes that uniform and harsher hate crime laws will be enacted. Personally, we'd rather address why we as a nation encourage and tolerate hate in the first place. Why do we fuel it with inflamed rhetoric? Why does even the most benign political issue turn into a shouting match?
Maybe Patrick Rose will carry this legislation here in Texas. Didn't somebody beat him down because he is a *cough* Democrat? That's kind of like a hate crime.
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