So a guy who runs someone over with a car accidently
should get the same sentence as someone who drags a black man behind a pickup truck to his death simply because the man is black?
The law has and always will use intent on punishing for crimes
In the above example
the victims both were killed only difference was intent
But you are saying the law should do away with intent in determining punishment
Yes the law should, in regards to racism.
You as a human being have the right to be racist. No one can rightfully or justifiably punish you for that, beyond what you would have otherwise been punished for, had race not been involved in the equation.
However you don't have the right to commit violent acts upon others, but if the motive of the violence is race, well then it's just a violent crime, because the criminal had that right as an individual to be racist.
You can not strip someone of their personal right of thought, on the premise that the "thought" is what caused a crime (even if it actually did). It's completely illogical to think that one can have the thought of racism stripped from them, because free thought is free speech, and free speech is a natural right, beyond that of the constitution.
