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abolished. To this day, there is still much hatred between blacks and whites despite emancipation, desegregation, and integration; some would argue that the condition of African Americans in the United States is still one of a subservient nature. Federal law defines a hate crime as whenever a victim is attacked on the basis of his or her race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or

protection. In 2001, a lawsuit was filed against Duke for trademark infringement by No Fear Inc., a sportswear company. To avoid legal action, Duke changed the name of his organization to EURO.  EURO 's founder had far more serious problems with the law. An investigation of Duke for mail fraud prompted a

all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.” Groups like the Ku Klux Klan (or KKK, for short) are considered hate groups. A hate group, as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is “an organization that – based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities – has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable

In 2008, the Uniform Crime Reporting program of the U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that “13,690 law enforcement agencies submitted hate crime data to the UCR Program. Of these agencies, 2,145 reported 7,783 hate crime incidents involving 9,168 offenses and of the 7,780 single-bias incidents reported in 2008, 19.5 percent were motivated by religious bias” (1). The statistics of 2008 are alarming to look at because the numbers of hate crimes committed in that

“The United States has more than 20 million foreign-born people, more than double 20 years ago. Last year, 1.2 million immigrants came [to the U.S.], a 17-percent jump over the year before. About 76-percent came legally” (Volgenau et. al). With the dawn of the new presidency, a movement has emerged once again, and it does not benefit the immigrants of this country in any way. This movement called the Anti-Immigration Movement is the protesting and hate towards people who are not native born. Hate

In 2007, according to the Federal Bureau Investigation of the Nation’s law enforcement agencies “there were 9,535 victims of hate crimes; of these victims17.1 percent were victimized because of a bias against a religious belief which totaled to be 1,628 victims of an anti-religious hate crime” (1). Almost ten thousand people were victims of hate crimes alone in 2007. That is something to be alarmed about because part of living in the U.S.A as minority is to have freedom to do and be anything you

The writing styles of Claudine Rankine and Colson Whitehead vary significantly, but both manage to address the issue of race in America in profound ways. In Citizen: An American Lyric, the former utilizes a combination of images and poetry to convey a sense of open-endedness, while the latter follows a traditional historical fiction narrative in his novel, The Underground Railroad. The books build on historical and modern events to evoke emotion and convey criticism. *Rankine uses an experimental

In this day and age it seems like hate groups are becoming more popular, which makes it well a talked about subject. But, it never got in to details about the reason hate groups were even created and why. In addition to getting more in depth with psychological part of an individual. In addition to why we are waiting until now to deal with the issue of hate groups and hate crimes in a more vigorous manner. With Recommendations that are provided for government officials to protect freedom while improving

hate crimes are illegal-as most hate crimes involve some other type of crime as well, ranging from assault and harassment to trespassing, arson, and everything in between. Hate crimes are thus far the only type of hate that is prosecutable by the laws currently in place, but that should not be the case. Hate speech should also be

Essay #2: What are the roots of the violence/hate crimes today in our contemporary society? What can we do to reduce them? Explain. The world is full of HATE. What is this word? What makes someone HATE someone else enough to kill or harm another human being? Hate crimes are criminal actions intended to harm or intimidate people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or other minority group status. They are also referred to as bias crimes. Hate crimes have been going