*shrug* just because it has happened before doesn't mean the situation is the same. Also I'm sure he might've been charged with hate crime if the lady actually thought it was a hate crime and she had made a big deal out of it.
As for the media spinning shit? A) Don't apologize. B) Sue them for slander.
oh yea and
http://www.racismeantiblanc.bizland.com/005/06.htm
here's a better site
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2007/table_01.htm
So some (a lot of) people do get charged for hate crimes against white people.
that fbi site says there have been 19 incidents of anti-heterosexual hate crimes
lol when i was like 12 this one guy started a fight with me because I was white. I should've told people it was a racially motivated hate crime :O