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Wed Nov-12-03 08:06 PM
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42. How is this not a race-based comment?

"I'm going to f**k up your pretty white face"

Was that just an innocent reference to skin color? I think that is the "smoking gun" that reveals this as a racially motivated crime.

"Maybe she was a platinum blonde and the remark was literal"

Then why didn't she say "blonde hair"?

"or maybe it was in reference to the fact that, in that situation, a non-black woman is noticable and also flicking her hair."

That is a legitimate possibility, if she had black hair. If she had blond or red hair her hair color should have been used to identify her, especially since her hair is what triggered hostilities.

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