In my thoughts there will always be hate crimes. ... Hate crimes are crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on certain group characteristics. These are crimes that are motivated by this person's prejudice. ... In that case it is difficult to know whether the offender committed this crime due to their bias, or did for other reasons. Along with the thousands of hate crimes committed every year there are many organized hate groups all over the U.S. ...

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Another example is a group called Christian Identity, who describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic; and other are the Black Separatist groups, who are organizations whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. ... As hate crimes have risen in number during the past five years; many state governments have attempted to prevent such crimes by passing laws called bias laws. These laws make a crime that is motivated by hatred based on the victim's race, religion, ethnic background, or sexual orientation a more serious crime than such an act would ordi...

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The average prison sentence for a violent crime is about one year longer for African-Americans than for Caucasians ("Racial Inequalities in" 1). Many cases in America have been concluded in which a white man gets less prison time than a black man for the same crime. ... A study has shown that 58,000 criminal cases have found disparities in the sentencing for blacks and whites arrested for the same crime ("Black Americans Given" 1). ... One set of judges was against racial bias and the other groups of judges were more likely to make their sentences based on a racial stereoty...

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The hate crimes of the past were based mainly on racial prejudice, but today causes can range from crimes against gays to vandalism and graffiti. ... Hate crimes are not necessarily always based on racial prejudice though. ... Discrimination and prejudice based on sexual orientation, for example, is the most recent cause that has sparked many of the hate crimes of today. ... Between 1991 and 1992, hate crimes based on race, national origin, ethnicity, and sexual orientation increased 16.7 percent (Thompson). ... Hate Crimes. ...

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Often people think that a prejudice is based solely on an individual's skin color, but that is not always true. ... People have discriminated against other people based on these attributes since the beginning of time. Prejudice has become a complex problem in our society today and much of our world's history is based upon hatred. ... What is a hate crime? ... However, a hate crime is not really about hate, but it's about biases or prejudices; essentially hate crime refers to criminal conduct motivated by prejudice. ...

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Gangs are not the only examples of modern day racism, most people don't have to look further than their own households to see examples of hate based on people's appearance. ... Mostly they start because people have common beliefs, based on people that they hate, or who they think are inferior to them. ... Then again mostly what gangs do is commit hate crimes. ... In 1999 the U.S. passed the Hate Crime Preventions Act, which seeks to expand federal jurisdiction over these crimes. ... Jack McDevitt stated that hate crimes are message crimes, because the wrongdoer is sending a message...

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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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By electing trusted officials Klansmen would be assured that crime would be suppressed, minorities regulated, and community improvements initiated."... Klansmen, hiding behind hoods and cloaks, have committed numerous racially motivated crimes. ... Many of these crimes have gone unpunished. ... Even today, there are groups of people within the United States that commit violent and illegal acts to suppress the rights of others based on their skin color, and get away with it. ...

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Late 19th - Century American Literature Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson as a critique of 19th Century hierarchies based on racial segregation Mark Twain: Mark Twain was born on November 30th of the year 1835 in Florida, Missouri. ... Thesis: "Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain is to be read as a critique of 19th century hierarchies based on racial division."" ... This is a stereotypical description of small towns of the South in those days: "Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave-worked grain and pork country back of it."" (6) Th...

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In today's world there are a lot of killings, robberies, rapes, and other crimes committed everyday. ... Canada has just as much guns as we do, but their crime rate is really low. ... The two boys who created this tragic crime experienced racism. ... The American society judges people based on what they see on the outside. The government spends more money on war, than trying to prevent crimes and funding the schools for children. ...

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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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The media have no moral base. ... They include the influence of Islam, high birth rates, crime, and the general collapse of the social system. ... "Oh okay, but refugees are obviously more likely to cause crime or something right" says the ignorant Brit. ... Statistically again, refugees are actually less likely than natives to commit crime, sorry ignorant Brit. ...

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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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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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The Nation of Islam was based on a theology adapted from several models: traditional Islamic teachings principles of Black Nationalism, and economic self-help programs that addressed the needs of African Americans living in urban ghettoes. ... This is a type of organized crime used by the police. ...

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Although the story on which the film is based is fictionalised, there are indeed racist Skins Down Under and some of them actually liked the film. ... The other Skinhead gang, White Australian Resistance (WAR) located in Melbourne, apparently adapted its name from the Californian based White Aryan Resistance. ... Neo-Nazis across the globe have committed a serious number of murders, firebombing and other crimes of violence against innocent victims, who they deemed to be of the "wrong" race, religion, nationality or sexual orientation. ...

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Second, voters were disqualified if convicted of any crimes. ... Washington, an African American man who graduated from a leading college, encouraged the black community to not only establish an economic base, but also create good relations with the white race. ... In part he reminds the white race, " We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third of its intelligence and progress" (42). ... She feels as though these spectators are just as guilty as the men committing the crime. ...

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The period that occurs after the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction. During this period of time many people suffered in the south. There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. Many other foundations were destroyed that citizens depended upon to kee...

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Hate crimes, anti-feminism, racism and even genocide can take place anywhere and possibly these things happen everyday. ... This theory or concept can help us understand why issues of racism, anti-feminism, hate crimes and genocide even take place. ... A woman may feel that the cause of her lack of success is solely based on the fact that she is female. ...

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Dalton walks into the room and bigger freezes, covering Mary's face with a pillow unwillingly suffocates her and he notices his crime and panics after Mrs. ... It may seem that the white women simply echoes what Richards's relatives have some to believe, but her words are ten times worse because it is an opinion based on speculation and assumption I believe that racism is bad where ever or to who ever is doesn't matter. ...

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Harper Lee's message about fairness in To Kill a Mockingbird is that societies views and actions towards a person, are based on their skin color, who they are, and their personal image. ... But because this story takes place in the south where many people are racist he was accused of the crime. ...

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In 1980, the Los Angeles County Commission of Human Relations found that all the hate crimes committed were based on race, ethnic origin, religion and sexual orientation. The LACCHR also reported that the largest number of crimes reported were against African-Americans, Jews, gays, Asians, and Latinos. ...

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