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Hate Crimes In America EssayDid you know that people with blonde hair have low I. Q. s? Or that people less than five feet tall are more likely to spread a disease? How about that people with brown eyes are really worshipers of Satan? That did not sound very logical, did it? No, you know…

One dark, muggy spring night in the heart of Texas, a black man was drug behind a pickup truck for five miles. He didn’t survive the attack against him by two white, high school dropouts. Police believe the only motive was the fact that the man was black. He was different from them and the…

Aaron McKinney, who was found guilty of the murder of Matthew Shepard, avoided the death penalty. Shepard’s lawyer agreed to a deal proposed by McKinney’s lawyer, which gave Aaron McKinney life imprisonment. McKinney, a 21-year-old drop-out and drug dealer, beat openly gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the prairie. Russell…

Recognizing, Preventing, Eliminating”As powerful a tool as the Net can be in spreading hate, it can be equally powerful in exposing the hate,” writes Rick Goldberg in an in HateWatch,one of the leading monitors of racist and homophobic activity on the internet. While it is easy to dismiss groups that wage on those of the…

Victims of Hate crimes vary in the indiscretions placed against them, whether it is from a simple slander to a vicious attack. But they all have the same mutual notion that the crimes that were committed against them are far above other crimes because they were carried out in hate. I believe that the idea…

Hate Crime and the PunishmentsLove Thy Neighbor. We have all been taught, if not have heard these same words. There are two opposite words in the dictionary with two opposite meanings. Love is defined as to have a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, and on the other side Hate…

The issue of Hate Crimes has greatly affected the way in which people interact. A hate crime is defined as any act of violence or verbal slashing of a person based upon race, religious belief, or one’s sexuality. There are several other grounds for determining a hate crime depending upon guidelines in written laws. Hate…