What this article lacks is any per capita context. For example, it says 54.6% of hate crimes are perpetrated by white people. According to http://en.wikipedia.

What this article lacks is any per capita context. For example, it says 54.6% of hate crimes are perpetrated by white people. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat... however, 72.4% of the population is white, so white people are, on average, less likely to commit hate crimes. Likewise, only 22.4% of racial hate crimes are targeted against white, so white people are far less likely than average to be the target of a racially motivated hate crime. There is a lot of missing context required to understand this data.