We were told not to waste time on them. But if a white person killed someone, we sprang into action. It is easy to be skeptical about the charge. After all, it tends to be voiced most often and loudly by those who never wanted hate-crime laws to be passed in the first place. Nevertheless, I, for one, take the charge seriously.
Many blacks do attack whites because they are white.
When blacks say or do nothing about these attacks, it is taken by some as a tacit signal that blacks put less value on white lives than on black lives.