Interior Minister Otto Schily said it was reasonable to assume that the attack had a racist motive.
Has this final act revealed his true racist motives, motives of which he himself may have been unaware?
The board insisted that it was not acting on racist motives, but only that it was worried for the safety of its students.
In recent years judges have used this provision to increase sentences on the basis of racist motives.
But you don't need racist motives to explain the jogger story's appeal.
You can't say child-white, black or Klingon for all I know-had racist motives.
That doesn't mean, however, that the law must ignore racist motives, or any other motives, when punishing conduct.
Given these social and practical impediments to adoption of black children by white couples, her assertion that racist motives might be at play seems bizarre.
Many of the Duke supporters bitterly denied racist motives in supporting him.
Attacks against Romani people in Hungary have been recorded after the incident, however, there is no evidence of racist motive in either case.