Of course this wasn’t a hate crime...and I’m Napoleon Bonaparte.
The more of this $hit that keeps happening, the more that racial tensions are going to rise. It is one thing (and bad enough) to give blacks a leg up in college admissions and job applications because of the treatment their forebearers received, but it is quite another to constantly have every white person labeled as a racist, and no black people when they nearly pummel a white guy to death, or stand in front of an election precinct with bats prohibiting white people from voting, etc., etc., etc. Hate exists on both sides, but when one is subjected to all of the blame, and the other is made to bear no responsibility, that’s just compressing the spring even further - and the rebound of that spring will be like nothing ever seen in this country if it isn’t managed the right way. If the one-way stuff doesn’t stop and then there are riots when Zimmerman is acquitted, EXPECT lots of resistance from the whites of this country.
Of course, that seems to be exactly what Fauxbama & Co. want - there’s simply no other explanation for the actions and lack of actions taken by this government in the last few years.
I think you are correct. Obama wants incidents he can use to bring out the police and security forces and claim the mantle of putting down racism as part of his reelection strategy.