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I don't care what someone thinks is "racist." A private person is free to harbor racial animosities or insult a certain race. I am less interested in whether the speech you describe is "hate speech" than in whether a law prohibiting it would violate the First Amendment. Even cross burning may not be illegal in some cases. You might want to read R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, in which the Supreme Court held unconstitutional a city ordinance a teenager had violated by burning a cross in the yard of a black family.
I think all speech should be protected its just words. If you are a proclaimed KKK member and go around say you hate blacks that should be ok legally. If you burn a cross on your own property then that should be ok. Once you burn a cross on someone else property you have crossed a line.
I think speech and expression are two different things. One is saying how you feel and the other is putting an item in public to express how you feel. So i feel all speech is protected but there are some limitations on expression becasue your expression can harm other. Again with very small limitations