Hate Crimes: A Bible Study

Transition to Lord of the Flies as a means to visualize the Pyramid of Hate

The news making the headlines this past couple of days is the genuinely shocking unforeseen improvement of six ladies and three men including a minister who were shot dead at 9 p.m. on Wednesday June 17, 2015 at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston South Carolina , a chronicled church which was developed in 1816 as a standout amongst the most settled African-American holy places in the United States. The shooter 21-year-old Dylan Roof went to a Bible study meeting at the gathering. He sat there for 60 minutes and toward the end opened fire and let them know "I need to do it". "You assaulted our women and you're expecting control over our country and you have to go". According to witnesses, Roof stacked and reloaded his weapon five times. He spared one woman clearly especially prompting her "I'm not going to shoot you in light of the fact that I require you to tell everyone what happened". There were three people inside and out who survived including a five-year-old young woman whose grandmother prompted her to play dead and that is the methods by which she survived. Rooftop was caught just two or three hours former after a report of a suspicious vehicle and was represented to be useful with the officers who ended him. (Bankoff and Hartmann).

CHARLESTON, North Carolina – What was supposedly a solemn bible study and prayer meeting, turned out to be a shooting fiasco when a young man started to pull the trigger, killing nine people.

Recently, in a response to an increase in violence, the state of Wisconsin passes a law that enhances the penalty for any offense committed against a victim where the crime is committed because of hatred for the victim’s race, sex, or religion. Prior to discussing whether or not this penalty enhancement violates the civil jurisdiction given to the state from God; one must first provide the foundation of the jurisdiction of the state from the biblical principles. First, Christ recognizes that God has all authority “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God” Roman 13:1 (King James Online). In addition, Christ recognizes jurisdiction “and Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the

The most recent mass shooting occurred on October 1, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon at Umpqua Community College. The shooter, Christopher Sean-Harper Mercer, shot and killed eight students and one teacher. He later killed himself with a bullet to his head. In June of 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina, Dylann Storm Roof murdered nine African American people at a historic church. Roof is facing nine murder charges. One of the more famous shootings, The Sandy Hook Elementary killing, began when Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty students and nine staff members. Before the shooting, Lanza killed his own mother, and after the shooting he killed himself. Most of the shooters killed themselves in order to detour jail time. These shootings are happening more often than they should, and they are getting deadlier and

Hate crimes can cause emotional or physical harm. The victims live life in fear because they are being targeted. However we are in America. All citizens should be able to live in peace. The severity and aftermath of racially motivated crimes are the main reason laws towards hate crimes were created.

Over the years, America has been prone to this violent act of hate crime that puts its citizens in a situation of distressed and confusion. Hate crimes have been a part of America’s history and culture for decades. Because America is a diverse country, the level of hate crimes is outrageous in many different levels due to different cultures, ethnicities, skin colors, and religions. Hate crime is a serious act and has influenced our society today to look at certain people a different way. It is not an act that people are born with rather than they are taught by it or it was inherited within a particular social group. With the election of President Trump in 2016, hate crime activities have really increased in just a year’s matter. President Donald Trump plays a role in really highlighting these hate crimes and almost making it seem like he is promoting hate crimes though many of his speeches and statements. Of the many factors that contribute to the highly increasing hate crime activities, there are four factors that I believe are contributing to the increasing hate crime activities. Those four factors are thrill seeking, retaliation, mission offenders, and the income inequality. These factors all have a part into why hate crime activities are increasing over the year.

The hate crimes law failed again in the Indiana legislation. Indiana will remain one of five states in the country without a hate crimes law.

1939-1945 was a time where many hate crimes were committed. These hate crimes were against almost anyone, but mainly Jews. Many of them still happen today, although they do not show. Hate crimes today are worse than they were in 1939, although they are mainly hidden from sight, so the victims have go through everything alone.

The United States has an extended background of biased actions against individuals because of their race,religion,sexual orientation,identity, ethnicity,gender, and disability. African Americans are the most likely victims of hate crime in America, followed by people of the Jewish belief and individuals of dissimilar sexual nature or gender identity.Law administration, the general criminal justice system, and oppponent-hate crime institution have established programs and tools to help respond to and prohibit hate crime. For example, several police agencies have developed hate crime teams, several jurisdictions require treatment for hate crime perpetrators, and both national and regional anti-hate organizations have developed Web sites to provide

Victimization of LGBT community members is elevating as time passes. Researchers attempt to determine the prevalence of the violence committed against members of the LGBT community (Rothman, Exner, & Baughman, 2011). Many people that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender that are victims of hate crimes have participated in studies where they insist that the crimes committed against them are based on their sexuality; not class, color, gender, or any other factor. In a qualitative study, Meyer (2009) conducted open-ended interviews with people who were victims of hate crimes. The participants were recruited at LGBT advocacy organizations. Those who presumed that their hate crime was due to multiple systems of oppression such as class,

I have never used social media to throw my beliefs in the face of others. But with the amount of controversy taking place, I am beginning to realize that by not saying anything, I am inviting others to assume how I feel. And I really don’t like that.

“Overall last year, 931 hate crime events were reported, up from 837 in 2015. There were 1,190 additional offenses reported, up from 1,057 in 2015. But the numbers are on the rise. Hate crimes in 2015 were up 10.4 percent compared to 2014” (Hart). Hate crimes are incidents involving acts of rape, assault, vandalism, or homicide, that are directed to people of a certain ethnic or racial groups. Since before World War 1, the FBI has been investigating and recording hate crimes that have resulted in homicides and increased tensions between ethnic and racial factions. This is being resolved through increased awareness and public pressure to report incidents.

Hate crimes are basically crimes that a group or someone in which hate is the motive and can involve intimidation, harassment, physical force, threat of physical force against a person, group, or property. Hate crimes can be based on disability, race, sexuality, religion or values that the victim(s) has. Some example of hate crimes can be racial hate crimes, which is the most dominant in the public. Another hate crime can be sexual orientation. Since people are declaring their sexual orientation as gay, lesbian or straight, and there are individuals who are against some of those orientation so a hate crime arises. There is also the disability hate crime, which depends entirely on the definition of the disability. People with physical disability, visual impairment or mental impairment are normally the victims of hate crimes.

The Charleston church shooting was a mass shooting and hate crime that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. This took place during the evening of June 17, 2015. This shook the entire world and was heard all over the news. Nine people including the pastor were killed by the gunman Dylann Roof, A 21-year-old white supremacist. Fortunately, three people survived the Charleston church massacre. The next day after the attack, police arrested Roof in Shelby, North Carolina. He confessed to committing the shooting hoping to start a race war. He had a website that described his motives and what was going through his head. He specifically targeted one of the US oldest black churches. Roof wrote “I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world,