Shit, you got me. I guess we don't need hate crime statutes at all.. just read todays article in the Maine Today to see

BANGOR - The Bangor chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has canceled this year's Kwanzaa celebration after a 75-year-old man allegedly threatened to shoot chapter members.

"It has been very scary," said chapter President Joseph Perry of Searsport.

Kendrick Sawyer was named early this month in a civil complaint filed by the hate crimes division of the state attorney general's office.

According to court documents, Sawyer apparently made statements to his doctor at the Togus VA Medical Center that he was "going to shoot any and all black persons that he saw attending a meeting of the NAACP at a church in Bangor."

e made similar statements to a Department of Veterans Affairs police officer, who described the encounter with Sawyer as "chilling."

Sawyer, who has no known criminal record, was quoted as saying he did not like blacks and Hispanics and that "Maine should be a 'white' state."
Because clearly, there are absolutely no racially motivated crimes committed anymore. You win.