Sick of "Hate Crime" Being Used

All crime is a hate crime.
Racism does not make one crime worse than another.
It makes the murder of someone who was not called a name less of a crime?
How stupid is this!?
The reason does not matter, that a crime was committed; assault, battery, theft, it does not matter as long as it is punished the same regardless of what was said during the crime.
It should not be a crime to be a racist, only to act upon it.
This is a free country and needs to remain so.
We need to use a little reason and get rid of this ignorance... the ignorance of hate crime law.

The facts of the crime should be the only determinant of punishment.
Saying that punching someone is a felony because you were wearing a hood tells family B who's father was mugged and was not called a name that the government cares less about him and his family than family A because of their minority status... THAT is a crime.