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While searching the internet for blog number six, about a video representation of hate crime, I came across an interesting video that I will mold this ninth blog around. This video is about a group of black men, also called a gang in the video, who are charged with targeting white pedestrians for assaults. The way the reporters frame the report in the video, it seems that these assaults are essential hate crimes, due to the targeting of only white people, as well as the group using epithets during the attacks. Now I know this is a study of the white power movement class, and this would seem like the opposite of our focus, but I would like to tie some comments and blog posts from the internet including Stormfront to show how white nationalists view this kind of incident. From what I had already researched on Stormfront for different posts, the members have a very strong view on a situation where a group of African Americans target a white person in an assault.

One common theme that seems to be present in most of the threads on Stormfront relating to black on white crime, is that members of Stormfront feel that those types of crimes are never labeled as racially motivated, or hate crimes. Most of the talk in the threads is related to “the fact” that whites are being charged with hate crimes and gaining media attention, whereas people of color who commit assaults and murder against whites get away with their crimes. Although anyone without a supremacist agenda can look at the statistics and see that these Stormfront members are clearly wrong, they still seem to argue these facts in nearly every forum thread relating to crime.

There is a great deal of outrage over a video such as the one above throughout Stormfront. A good deal of the posters on the website claim that the media is at fault for misplacing blame on whites, even if they are the victims. They also use vocabulary and phrases that dehumanizes people of color especially when they are the perpetrators. This type of dehumanization is a tactic of spreading hate throughout the forum, while at the same time eliminating any feelings or remorse for their comments and or actions because they have conceptualized the non-whites as sub-human.

This is just another video that reports an incident of black males committing a hate crime against a white man, who was eating at a restaurant with a black man. The comments below are typical on Youtube, however unfortunate, and one reads as follows,

“So these 4 apes were mad that a human guy was associating with a [n-word]? So [n-word] don't want to be integrated with whites. Segregation is what they want. I'm fine with that too, never having to watch another [n-word] ruin my lunch, never see another [n-word] on TV, never have to pay another penny in taxes for welfare, EBT and other gibs me for [n-word]. Let's start right NOW.”