Finally, although the proponents of hate crimes legislation may think they are battling for civil rights and tolerance, as far as race relations are concerned, hate crimes are nothing compared to the unsung and much grimmer menace of plain old interracial violence. Of this number 6,279 were crimes of racial or ethnic bias. We have to go back to 1994 to get good statistics, which come from a massive study called the National Crime Victimization Survey carried out by the Justice Department. In that year the American public reported no fewer than 783,388 completed acts of interracial violence. Of that number 460,266 were multiple-offender crimes, that is, a group of thugs of one race raped, assaulted, robbed or murdered someone of a different race.
Violence is intimate business.
You cannot be beaten up or raped from a distance. Such suspicions are even more likely in the 490,266 cases of group violence that crossed racial lines. Whatever the merits of such a proposal, Congress is unlikely even to consider it. That is because blacks commit almost all the interracial crime. Given that there are only about one sixth as many blacks as whites in the United States, this means the average black is more than 50 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa.