In the state of peaches and peanuts, there are no hate crimes. Imagine that. None. Georgia must be special. So, a black man can go out for a run, stop at a work site for a drink of water, and continue his run. He can be assured that the two men chasing in the pickup truck don't hate, distrust or suspect him because he is black. He can be certain that the man who shoots him and utters a slur as he dies doesn't hate, distrust, or suspect him of a crime because he is black.
Ahmaud Arbery must have died assured because the Georgia legislature claims there's no hate in Georgia's crimes.
Georgia must be a wonderful world. A racial utopia. Paradise found.
On paper anyway.
It's an illusion, a fantasy. Wrap up a crime in the nonsensical worlds of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny governerd by the Mad Hatter and you get Georgia.
Arbery never lived in that Wonderland. He assuredly would claim he was the victim of a hate crime. Chased by a pickup. Shot three times. For what? Nothing.
As his mother Wanda Cooper-Jones makes clear in a video posted in the New York Times, Georgia along with three other states have no legislative provisions for hate crime.
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