Originally Posted by mineistaken

Yes.
Again, your logic:

We should not give him what he wanted.

Treating it as hate crime we fire race tensions and "race war".
Not treating it as a hate crime we do not fire race tensions.

So in order to NOT give him what he wants we should NOT treat it as a hate crime.

You somehow claimed the opposite.
Unless you are talking about blacks rising in retaliation if "the man" does not treat it as a hate crime.