Perhaps it is you that needs to do a little research before you make pronouncements, Bobert. What these young folks did isn't classed a hate crime. You are mixing what seems right, with what the law is. Hate crimes in the code can only be used to enhance a violation of the law, and hanging a noose from the tree isn't a violation of the law.

And I find your suggestion just as ludicrous as the suggestion that this all popped up months later and the black kids are just thugs. Neither of those suggestions would do anything to break the cycle that is going on here.

This community had it in their power to resolve this in a way that would have had a positive effect. But they didn't have the will or desire. Shame on them.

Mick