For the record, we believe that had Omar Thornton shootings in Connecticut proceeded to trial they would justifiably be prosecuted as a hate crime. No one, though, should take any joy in that. And that there's a portion of the right who'd make hay with it in order to chase "reverse racism" ghosts in the name of political gain is further evidence of a particular stain of political bankruptcy running through their end of the discourse. The summer of the shitty dialogue on race continues.