I still don't understand why it matters WHY somebody beat somebody else to death--isn't the point that it was a stupid, senseless, murder and they ought to be locked up for a very long time? I don't care what color somebody is or what moronic, racist, ideas they have, I just want them off the street.

I live about two miles from the high school where a Latino student was beaten, sodomized with a piece of pipe, and left for 10 hours in a back yard by two white teenagers because he had allegedly kissed a younger white girl at a party. The white kids had violent records and had, at least at some point, white supremacist associations. Frankly, while I find white supremacists disgusting beyond words, what I mostly care about is getting anyone who would do such a thing put away so he can't do it to anyone else. If a Latino is "too different" now, sooner or later they're going to find a reason that somebody else is "too different" (even if they're white, Anglo, whatever the qualifications) to justify doing it again.