Southern Poverty Law Center

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the “Patriot” movement began in the early 1990’s as a “response to what was seen as violent government repression of dissident groups (Potok, 2012).” The movement reached 858 groups but quickly faded until late 2008 when its numbers shot up to 149, “just as the economy went south with the subprime collapse and, more importantly, as Barack Obama appeared on the political scene as the Democratic nominee and, ultimately, the president-elect (Potok, 2012)”

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) talks about people’s civil rights protecting minorities, black people, LGBT, disabled and women against racial discrimination and unfair treatment. I am fascinated how American history of discriminations evolves since 1970’s onwards. Discriminations exist amongst us and still grow in the U.S. On the contrary, it does not only exist in America but also exist somewhere else, for example when I was living and working at Starbucks in the Middle East I seen a lot

The Southern Poverty Law Center is extremely dedicated in what they do and how they represent themselves. They fight against hatred and prejudice while searching for a fairness system for those individuals in society who are more liable than others. SPLC uses education, prosecution and additional ways of justification to try and make opportunity and justice equal for everyone. This is a difficulty that will be worth it in the long run. There was a lot of essential information in the “Hate and Extremism”

discrimination of their sex, race or age. Actions have been made to help prevent this from ever happening. In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). This civil rights act “forbade discrimination based on sex and race in hiring, promoting, and firing. ... Title VII of the act created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to implement the law.” Morris Dees acted upon this and as a lawyer for civil rights he helped prove that due to physical and social differences, you still

National organization for Women, and Southern Poverty Law Center are the organizations that fight to achieve equal rights, justice and protection to all the minority groups in our society. NAACP, Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People, its mission is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality

Richard Cohen, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), spoke recently with the Washington Examiner about the SPLC’s views on Antifa, a violent underground movement whose membership is on the rise as of late. Antifa, or “anti-fascist action”, was termed back in the 1920s and 30s to define a broad group of people from the militant left who battled against the fascists of the time in Germany, Italy, and Spain. After the end of WWII, however, the support for Antifa faded to the background

Recent data has shown an increase in the number of hate crimes being committed within the United States. Hate groups also are mobilizing. This poses a problem for Americans. The Southern Poverty Law Center provides a solution for this by monitoring hate groups and gathering information about them. To continue doing this, they need donations to keep operating but multiple barriers exist for individuals to contribute funds. Increase in hate crimes, mobilization of hate groups Hate groups, and hate

in the United States (Southern Poverty Law Center). While this may not seem like much, these groups target every possible racial, religious, and political affiliation that a person could have or be. The Ku Klux Klan is the immediate thought when it comes to a hate group, but their membership, between “5,000 and 8,000,” is tiny when compared to the Black supremacist group Nation of Islam, which has a membership number between “20,000 and 50,000” (Southern Poverty Law Center). Clearly, this makes for

Everybody Love Everybody Many people are aware of the largest hate groups found in the United States. Two of them being the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party. They threaten or harm a specific population, and both cause diversity in the United States. The Black Lives Matter movement is a hate group because they threaten and harm a specific population using physical abuse and speech while causing diversity in the United States. Mark Twain once said, “Actions speak louder than words”

involved nothing so sinister, subversive or ancient as the theories supposed. It was the boredom of small-town life that led six young Confederate veterans to gather around a fireplace one December evening in 1865 and form a social club.” (Southern Poverty Law Center Staff) As odd as it is, the beginning of the Klan according to this article was nonthreatening as the boy scouts or a college fraternity. The word “innocent” is obviously one of the last things that we would use to describe the group today