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...definition of hate crimes is a blurry one, she said, and effecting positive change through legislative and institutional means is frustrating but ultimately worth...
...wake of a rash of hate crimes against gays--BGLTSA Co-Chair Adam A. Sofen '01 cited the October murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, Alabama resident Billy Jack Gaither's violent death last month after being beaten with an axe handle, and last week's attack on a gay student at Tufts College leaving an off-campus party--Hildebran and Pars-Avila discussed their professional experiences with anti-gay violence...
Whites joined blacks outside the courthouse to applaud the verdict. Some onlookers shouted "Bye-bye!" and "Rot in hell!" as King was led off to death row. "I hate to say people were happy, but they were," says Jasper Chamber of Commerce president Diane Domenech, who is white. "I feel like we stood together, black and white, and everyone's just as happy as the next one at what happened...
...practical grounds, as if King's execution were an urgency of public health, like disposing of an incurable case of rabies. If sentenced to life, King would probably kill someone else in jail, the prosecution reasoned--another black, or a Jew perhaps, so lively and irrepressible boils his hate. He displays no shadow of remorse, and even in the Jasper jail, awaiting trial, he managed to get hold of an 8-in. knife. The jury did not find it hard to conclude that, among other reasons to execute him, he is simply too dangerous to go on living...
Things have changed--but not completely. Though whites and blacks now monitor their attitudes about race, racial terrorism lives on. Killers who were never charged for their hate crimes roam free. From recent cases one might even be led to surmise that the Klan has given up white uniforms for blue ones. And then there are cases in which there is still time to make good on history. Perhaps this one. Mamie Till Mobley is ailing but alive. She has mourned her only child these 44 years. She could never get his murderers indicted on lesser charges, never got their...