"So besides the tape and the girl corrobating the allegation, what more would it take to believe he's guilty?"
"Alright, if I saw a tape of R. Kelly peeing on a girl, while he was singing 'Piss On You', the girl was holding two forms of government ID, or a police officer was there, like four or five of my buddies and Neal taking notes, I'm not finished, and his grandmother has to be there to confirm his identity!"
For some, that is the excessive, nonsensical and ridiculously high bar they put in place to call something "racist", racially motivated or even speculate that it involved some bias or was racially stressed induced or aided.
"Alright, if the two dudes were wearing Klan masks, signed by David Duke, driving a Ford, not GMC, a Ford pickup, with a rebel flag that has the inscription "my heritage", while listening to post-Obama Ted Nugent, and while murdering him they used the N-word a minimum of six times, and after killing him they castrated him and burned his body and left their "Kill all Blacks" manifesto at the scene...then yes, I will concede this looks like a hate crime."
I imagine they feel it is the necessary counter to what they perceive as the growing "everything is racist!" movement, but it just comes across, to me, as another extreme and clownish. Like I get the importance of not nilly willy claiming any interaction between races to automatically involve bias, or hate. But does anyone want to go out on a limb and tell me, after watching that video, that they believe the same thing happens to white Arnold Antonelli jogging down that street? Your gut, intuition and instincts tell you otherwise, especially those of us who have spent a lifetime living it and it being engraved in our legacy and heritage. You know what it looks like. What it feels like. You just do.