Ramblings' Journal

Reverse-hate crime in White Plains

A 43 year-old ex-convict has confessed to attacking and fatally stabbing a woman to death in a shopping mall parking garage, simply because she was white.

In a videotaped statement, convicted rapist Phillip Grant said that he had never met his victim, Concetta Russo Carriero, a 56 year-old mother of two.

"She was not innocent. She was white," (Grant said).

"All I knew was she had blond hair and blue eyes, and she had to die . . . I didn't care, as long as she was white," he said.

"I wanted to kill someone who represented the white lifestyle."

Grant said he became a racist after his July 2003 release from Sing Sing, where he spent 24 years for three Bronx rapes and for attacking another inmate with a pitchfork.

He said he was fighting a race war — and his only regret was that he didn't know anything about biological weapons.

Grant said he was prepared to die for killing Russo Carriero, a legal secretary who worked at a law firm across the street.

"There's a lot of white people that really need to die. I don't give a f - - - what public opinion is about that. They can go f - - - themselves. These people are sick, and they are getting away with it.

"I can't be around white people. I'm scared of white people," he added. "They forced me into a position where I'm racist.

"It was not a criminal motive. I'm really, really fighting a war on being attacked," he said.

Asked if he would kill again, Grant answered yes.

"My only regret is that I didn't have the means to do more," he said.

Grant is being held on second-degree murder charges. The local DA is contemplating charging Grant with a hate crime, which would raise his potential sentence to 20 years to life.

I don't see the reason for the "contemplation." He admitted to murdering the woman, in cold blood, simply for being white.

I'm sure there will be those who will wring their collective hands and insist that because he's black, Grant can't have committed a hate crime -- after all, in their petty little minds, it's not possible for a black person to be racist, present evidence notwithstanding.

And there's no way that anyone can excuse Grant's crime under some misbegotten notion of some black pseudo-trauma. But there will be those who try to do just that.

I don't feel sorry for him. Not one bit.

Posted by mhking at July 6, 2005 01:58 PM | TrackBack