If you could change any law in your country what would it be and why?

It seems that you are going off a false narrative about the people who are stopped and harassed. It is everyday people... also I do not care if someone is dressed like a thug. These people should not get stopped as well. This is America we should have the right to wear what we want without being subject to harassment. I mean look at all the assumptions that you made in your opening statement . 9 out of 10 times if someone does not have anything on them .. that means they throw away what they were holding ? How do you come to such a conclusion? The real fact is normal everyday people are treated like thugs for just being black. There was a joke that went something to this effect .. What do you call a black Doctor in the South .. and the answer is a racial slur. And that mindset seems to still be alive. Not saying that you are going around calling black people racist names . But it seems that you are so ready to believe to worse. In New York with their stop and Frisk that target mostly black people there are only 6% of the time do they find something illegal . 6% that would be 94 % of the time black people had to make stuff vanished . Hate to break it to you most many black people are not training by Chris Angel .

You are right there motives are taken into account but that is not wrong thinking .. that is wrong thinking followed by a wrong action. However this is something that happens in every murder case . If you plan it out ... you get a longer time than if it was just something random . While not a technical terms people use the term a crime of passion in order to try to get less time . I don't understand why hate crimes are where we draw the line .

OK... so what needs to be done, regarding profiling? People in the inner city appeal to the police to put a stop to all the crime. What, then, would you have them do?

1. Accost EVERYONE, rather than the likely suspects?

2. Drive through the neighborhoods, but not stop the car?

3. Place officers on every street corner to prevent crime?

Bear in mind that somebody has to pay for all this, and that none of it would be necessary if the people in this part of town would obey the law in the first place. Whose responsibility is this? Are these young black men incapable of behaving themselves without a babysitter of some kind? You will never convince me that there is any actual difference between people of different colors. We are all equally capable of being honest, law-abiding citizens.

So... what should we do, if not to mix it up with the ones who are actually committing the crimes?

As for premeditation as a special circumstance, a person's intent is entirely different from his/her motivations. When you start punishing people for something intangible like a thought-- by adding 20 years for "hate", you've entered a realm of conjecture. Nobody knows what's on someone else's mind.

You can make a good case for premeditation if the killer goes home and returns with a .45 auto, but to say that he pulled the trigger because his victim was gay or black or disabled or whatever is guesswork. And even if you KNOW how he felt about the other person, why should this earn him more years in prison?

It's a political gesture-- created in congress to appease people who perceive themselves to be 'special' in some way. Everyone but whites and straights is what it boils down to.

I'm probably not as bitter as I sound, and definitely not as racist as I sound-- what I am is alarmed by the acceptance of the double standard. It's not even acceptance, anymore. It's expected to such a degree that half the country refuses to acknowledge it.

Women demand equal pay for equal work, but can't hold up their end of the bargain. Minorities want a level playing field, but want it tipped in their favor. We're not supposed to see any difference in a man's worth based on skin color, but blacks still call each other "brother" to the exclusion of everyone else in the room.

For years, you've insisted that we're all the same, and now that this is common knowledge, you want to be treated differently. It's a 2-way street, you know-- we ALL have to be willing to integrate. This means that we have to give little to become part of something larger than ourselves.

This is exactly the "conversation on race" that I've been wanting to have since Obama suggested this in a speech a few years back. A very good speech, I might add. I'm not trying to wear you down-- I'm trying to find some reasonable common ground with you. How can someone so obviously intelligent as yourself fail to recognize a double standard when you see one?