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more about #hatecrime acrobatic rabbit: I know it's called the Cracker Barrel, which is pretty self-explanatory, but aside from the blatant name of the restaurant, do these workers have to g... more » BowlingForDollars: It's not just black folk - Cracker Barrel also hates gays. I haven't eaten there since and never will. This incident just reinforces that stance. Fr... more » chersolly: Last year, we were on our way to Bonnaroo and stopped at Cracker Barrel somewhere along the TN/KY border. While my boyfriend was paying for our meals... more » Peebers says what?: From what I’ve witnessed, racism like this comes from profound self-hatred. If his entire identity and sense of worth comes from the color of his ow... more » smoakes: I honestly don't understand how a man with a fuse this short--to fly into a rage and beat up a woman, in a public place--was able to function in socie... more » MizJenkins: One of these days that little girl is going to grow up and have a conversation about racism on an internet blog and someone is going to tell her she i... more » BreeDMN: I heard about this yesterday and I was alternately sickened and infuriated. That poor woman and her child. Somebody should tell that piece of shit Tro... more » Ginmar Rienne: God, what a scumbag. What worries me is that these stories comfort racists: the ones who don't beat down a mother and her seven-year-old daughter. T... more » AndIAmTellingYou: I got called the N-word by cashier at a Cracker Barrel outside of Orlando once. I've only been back once -- to pee on a roadtrip. Cracker Barrel has ... more » nyc-caribbean-ragazza: I heard about this and it broke my heart. This should not be going down anywhere in 2009. Even if she spit at him (doubtful) that he immediately wen... more » dreamypisces: Reading the headline - I was afraid that I'd have to ban Cracker Barrel (b/c of racist employees) and really, I don't know if I could be that strong. ... more » debo matar la zombi goldberry83: You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to get something treated as a hate crime, if the US is anything like Canada anyway. A couple of weeks ago so... more » Thus Spake KATE!: I wish that criminals would be more explicit as to whether their motivations are hate-based or not. It would really help us regular folk identify them... more » whoneedslight: I have never been to a Cracker Barrel that wasn't packed... please tell me there are witnesses. more » RollsRoyceRevenge: There is a joke about this incident and the name of the restaurant that I refuse to make. Um...so there. more » Lady Skittlehattington: This is why I take my blatant racism to Bob Evans. more » thoughtthinker: Can I just say -- I think in this situation the word "bitch" carries just as much hate and contempt as the "n-word." I wonder why I can bring myself t... more » TabithaIapetus: I wonder when Limbaugh is going to call out this racist behavior? Tick-tock... Tick-tock... more » xgurl3eb: how is there any question that this was a hate crime?? "...motivated in whole or IN PART by an offender's bias against a race, religion..." even if t... more » LUV_TRUK: vd Crckr Brrl. Tht plc s fll f crc more » -
#racematters
Racist May Face Hate Crime Charges After Cracker Barrel Beating
Troy D. West Jr. allegedly punched, kicked and hurled racial slurs at army reservist Tasha Hill as she entered a Cracker Barrel in Georgia last week with her seven-year-old daughter. The FBI is investigating whether he committed a hate crime. More » -
#hatecrimes
Firsts: Hate Crime Law Applied To Transgender Murder In Colorado
Allen Andrade is accused of beating an 18-year-old transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher, saying, "gay things need to die." The defense argues she tricked him by claiming to be a woman. More » -
#leftovers
HuManity One Step Closer To Virtual Sex • British Man Told He's 'Too Fat' To Adopt
• Entirely virtual sex? Perhaps, thanks to the RealTouch, which uses lubrication jets, heating elements and other gadgetry programmed to "give men the feeling of sex." No word, of course, on what women get. • More » -
#h8crime
Alleged Gang Rapists Arrested
Four men were arrested this week on suspicion of gang-raping a gay woman in the San Francisco area last month. The group consisted of two men and two male teens, including Josue Gonzalez, pictured. [AP]
