I Guess I Need To Become a Jew To Be Treated Equally

That way I'll be given the additional protection hate crimes legislation affords, according to a report based on the Attorney General's presentation at Congress earlier this year. Way to go, Eric Holder. You're PC liberalism knows no bounds, but at least you're honest. From the link:

Under questioning, Attorney Gen. Holder was surprisingly forthright in admitting that the hate bill is not intended to protect everyone, or even the majority. He said only historically oppressed minorities were to benefit. This means Jews, blacks, homosexuals, women, etc. Holder made it clear that if a white Christian male, including a serviceman or police officer, was the victim of a violent hate crime by any minority he would have to find redress from traditional law. He could not avail himself of the triple penalties and rapid government/justice system response given a protected minority.

This might explain Wichita or Knoxville:

In Cobbins' August trial, Judge Baumgartner had abused the jury selection process, in order to rig the sentencing options. Although the victims were both white, and the assailants had committed the atrocity in a jurisdiction that is 88 percent white and only 8.8 percent black, Baumgartner went to 27.5 percent black Davidson County, to fetch a majority-black jury, which he bused in to Knox County. That jury convicted Cobbins of 33 out of 38 felony charges, but sentenced him only to "life without parole". In Gomer Pyle's immortal words, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"

Imagine a jury pool being racially reconfigured in such a blatant way if the races were reversed! Can't we just treat people as individuals and dump the identity, group-based politics? You know, judge each other by the content of our character, not the color of our skin, as some great Americans have said?

It's also one of the great messages from Harper Lee's classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, which devastatingly chronicles when individuals aren't treated with equality under the law, a central American republican demand.