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 gender; hate offenses are directed against members of a particular group simply because of their membership in that group (Levin 4). Hate crimes today are becoming out of control. ... What happened thereafter undoubtedly has to be one of the most gruesome and horrifying crimes this country has seen since the day's slavery was legal. ... According to sociologists and psychologists, hate crimes tend to be excessively brutal, and they are often sense...

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Instead criticism and analysis must be based upon what is best for the Black community in this country. From this perspective it becomes clear that although race-based jury nullification has many attractive features, it must be modified to be truly beneficial. ... In any policy discussion, formulation of a plausible and effective solution clearly must be based upon the nature of the problem. ... It also found that of all federal death row inmates, 67 percent are Black.11 Despite the fact that these statistics are startling and important, they are insufficient to justify race-based jury nullifi...

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Racial profiling roughly covers the grounds of an individual being searched, pulled over, arrested, or questioned by authorities based on race, sex, or even more so, ethnicity. It is a fact that African Americans are six to eight times more likely to be not just arrested, but convicted of a violent crime than a Caucasian. ... While almost everyone is capable of committing virtually any crime, certain ethnicities have tendencies to be responsible for certain crimes and offences than others, and police and any other authorities do keep this in mind while on duty, not because they are racists, ...

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Many people are killed not having committed a single crime because of their skin color. ... There isn't a scientific explanation for these crimes other than they must be crazy. Why else would you kill based on race? ... If everyone stopped judging people by their race, there would be no racism therefore less deaths and hate crimes. ...

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During this time blacks were unjustly accused of awful crimes against whites. Rape, kidnapping and murder are crimes that were charged against blacks. ... Such justification by southern leaders fostered the misconception that blacks were lynched predominantly for sexual assault, but few lynching victims were actually convicted or even indicted for such crimes." When a black person was accused of these crimes, a lynch mob would gather outside of the jail where they were being kept till sentencing. ... There was no justification in the assassination of so many African-Americans, especially...

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The sentencing of death is claimed to have double standards based on these characteristics. ... The average age at the time the crime is committed is 30. ... I did notice through out my studies that the white males that are on death row or have been executed have committed, in my opinion, ay more Cruel and unusually crimes than the black men. ... They are seen as nothing because people believe if you don"t have money, you don"t really have a role in society so they are seen to have more reason to commit these crimes for things like money, possessions, revenge. ... People who are today call...

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Authored by the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington-based research and advocacy group, the study showed that in 2000 there were 791,000 men in jail or prison and 603,000 enrolled in colleges or universities. ... Immediately following the civil war, Black codes created a list of crimes punishable only when committed by black people. Mississippi made it a crime for African Americans to be unemployed or drunk, or to have run away, neglected children, or handled money carelessly. ... Police always found an innocent black man to blame for the crime since, as Douglass pointed out, all Negroes ...

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However, society often tends to make superficial judgments about others based on their exterior appearance, cultural background, and their physical attributes or disabilities. ... The police hearing the man saying such a thing like that with two little dead girls in his arms, them white and blonde, him black and as big as a house, automatically assumed that he was the killer indeed and did not bother to investigate the crime. ... When the truth was finally revealed, that John Coffey in fact was innocent of not having committed the crime, authorities looked the other way, because to them j...

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Statistics confirm that African Americans-particularly young black men-commit a dramatically disproportionate share of street crime in the United State. ... In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. ... That is why, since the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, courts have typically ruled-based on the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause-that mere reasonableness is an insufficient justification for officials to discriminate on racial groun...

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Everyday in the U.S. there are numerous crimes being committed in which law enforcement must take action in order to protect innocent civilians against lawbreakers. ... And, How do you punish those law enforcement officers who commit the crime? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... The high rate of blacks being arrested and imprisoned gives the perception that African Americans are more likely to commit crimes than whites. ... In this bill, the findings that a large majority of individuals that are being s...

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When a black man is accused of a crime he didn't commit, he is still found guilty because of his skin color. ... As long as our society is ridden with race-based problems, we will need race-based remedies. ...

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Lastly and most importantly the racism in societal is the labels we put on people based on their skin color. ... Tatei Thomas says "Racism, especially in our society is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. ... The United States Sentencing Commissions released a report saying that African Americans sentences are 20% longer than white Americans even though they both were convicted with the same crime. ...

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So for a society who prides herself on the basis of freedom, and who has based its moral code off of Judeo-Christian law which claims that all men are created equal; how could we possibly commit such a cockamamie violation of humanitarian rights like slavery? ... The races of this nation have been stratified into an unequal caste system; According to Webster dictionary the proper definition of a caste system is a division of society based upon differences of wealth, rank or occupation. ...

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Imprisonment has thus been seen as the ways to deter crime, protect the good of the public and for rehabilitation. ... The crime rate has gone down and many people have been advocating against juvenile confinement and trying a child as an adult. Also the emergence of community-based rehabilitation programs has emerged nationwide to prevent youth from being incarcerated and to help former child inmates to entering the jail system again. ...

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Atticus elaborates on this idea during his closing argument at the trial saying: "She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with...she tried to put the evidence away from her.... Bob Ewell is left handed and given his violent nature, it is clear that he commits the crime. ... Tom Robinson faced the death penalty for a crime that Bob Ewell commits. ... Obviously prisoners are forbidden from escaping the prison, but his desire to escape is understandable ...

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"This is totally true because the white cops are ignorant believing they are better than the minority based on not living in poorer parts of county. ... Some of these places don't need military equipment based on modest crime rates, no terrorist activities and some drug problems. ... By attacking the black community and their involvement with crimes and drugs. ...

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The high rate of dependence on charity, disease, lack of personal hygiene and crime were the main characteristics of the immigrants. ... After the abolition of slavery, the South America was poorer than the rest of the country, because their economy was based on slaves work on plantations. ...

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Affirmative action decisions are generally not supposed to be based on quotas, nor are they supposed to give any preference to unqualified candidates (Froomkin). ... Every hate crime that happens has to do with race or being prejudice. ... History has had their share of hate crimes, dating back to the start of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a group of whites that hate and terrorize blacks. ... The KKK committed hate crimes such as burning down of black churches, and putting crosses to fire. ... The two men who had many white-supremacist tattoos were charged with a capital crime offense (Boven). ...

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Wright's apparent honesty, however, is intended to arouse awareness to the ignorant and racist part of society, divulging to them that they are part of the problem concerning African American commited crimes. ... His crime of violence is as much the crime of the people around him, who stifled his soul and nourished the other, baser side of him that was the only way he had of self-expression. ...

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I formed an opinion of Malcom X based mostly on what my band director had told me that day. ... Malcom sensed that his father favored him while his mother resented him, both basing their feelings on his light skin and red hair. ... His friend Shorty was in need of money and a job as well and Malcom began the crime spree that put him in prison. ... Malcom and Shorty would break into the house and based on the plans the women gave them they would steal things of value while Rudy waited in the getaway car. ... Malcom and Shorty received a sentence that reflected more than their breaking an...

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In 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act was passed, it forced law enforcement and ordinary citizens with severe fines if they failed to assist in the capture of runaway slaves when the suspicion could be based only on written claims. ... America's response to the vicious crimes and unfair justice system against African Americans fails to exist. ... For these reason some police officers may feel justified in their actions due to the amount of black on black crime. ...

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Some of biggest differences with African American MCs were the issues of civil rights, crime, and party politics. ... For example, when we look at the issue of crime, we can see a difference in percentage. Only 2.9% of the white MCs, 4.8% of the African American MCs, and 2.1% of the other minority MCs posted/tweeted about issues of crime. This occurs because communities in the United States that have a higher crime rate tend to have a higher percentage of minority groups living there; MCs tend to voice their opinions on topics that relate to members of their racial communities. ... I'm su...

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Individuals are separated into these groups based on national heritage and background, as well as cultural practices.... A community filled with individuals with such a low education, is the foundation for very high crime rate. ... If they are denied application based on their racial or ethnic background, how is it possible to increase the quality of life in these minority communities. ... It is concerning to me that in the 1990's someone would be blatantly turned away solely based on race, despite qualified credentials. ...

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Discrimination is stated in the dictionary as being "unfavourable treatment based on racial, sexual, etc. prejudice." ... Tom Robinson is assumed guilty just because a white person accused him of a crime. ...

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Some Americans still treat, consider, and make decisions based upon peoples group, class and race. ... Trump has made about Mexicans, make others believe in all the negative situations Mexicans have been involved such as coming to the country illegally, possibly committed serious crimes etc. and not the positive things they have accomplished in the country, such as adapting to a new culture, helping the country's economy by creating jobs or accepting low income jobs that U.S. ...

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