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Hate Groups and Crimes

Hate Groups and Crimes. T he belief that a particular race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, belief system or culture is superior to others and entitles those who identify with it to dominate, control or rule those who do not . Supremacist Beliefs.

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Hate Groups and Crimes

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  1. Hate Groups and Crimes

  2. The belief that a particular race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, belief system or culture is superior to others and entitles those who identify with it to dominate, control or rule those who do not. Supremacist Beliefs

  3. Any speech intendedto foster hatred against individuals or groups based on Race, Religion, Gender, Sexual Preference, place of national origin, or other improper classification What Constitutes Hate Speech?

  4. “Bleep the Draft” – literature opposing draft Literature significantly impacting recruitment and administering Selective Service Act Arrested and jailed for distributing literature If Speech presents a “Clear and Present danger” to others, it can be limited Your rights end where others begin Schenck Vs. United States

  5. Occurs when a person targets a victim because of his/her perceived membership in a certain social group Includes physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse/insults, hate mail, etc. Usually those 20 & under; Overwhelmingly by strangers What is a Hate Crime?

  6. Medgar Evers • Civil Rights Leader and active member of the NAACP • Lawyer for James Meredith who was first African American to graduate from University of Mississippi • Killed on June 12, 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and member of the White Citizens' Council and Ku Klux Klan Hate Crime Examples

  7. Above:Medgar Evers’ house where he was struck with a bullet. Right: Assassin Byron de la Beckwith; no conviction until 30 years later in 1994; dies at age 80 in prison

  8. Matthew Shepard Targeted because of sexual orientation by Aaron Mckinney and Russel Henderson Robbed, Pistol-whipped, tortured, and tied to a fence left for dead Brought national attention for Hate Crime legislation in US, especially based on sexual orientation Hate Crime Examples

  9. Founded in Pulaski, Tennessee in the years after the Civil War by Confederate veterans Opposed Reconstruction acts by violence, intimidation, and even murder Ku Klux Klan

  10. This Klan expanded their hatred… • Catholics: believed Pope would take over the world • Communism • anti-immigration • Jews • anti-anything that was not white Protestant America including Prohibition

  11. The 1957 murder of Willie Edwards, Jr. Klansmen forced Edwards to jump to his death from a bridge into the Alabama River. The 1963 assassination of NAACP organizer Medgar Evers in Mississippi. In 1994, former Ku Klux Klansman Byron De La Beckwith was convicted. The 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four African-American girls.

  12. Over 40 different groups with hundreds of chapters in each Enemies list includes Jews, African Americans, homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants KKK Today

  13. Anti-Government Anti-Jewish Anti-anything not “Aryan” "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." NeO-Nazi/Aryan Nation

  14. WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS AND SKINHEADS Aryan Nations Creativity Movement/World Church of the Creator National Alliance National Socialist Movement The Nationalist Movement White Revolution

  15. Known Targets include: • Jews • African Americans • Asians • Latinos • Arabs • Homosexuals • Catholics • American neo-Nazi groups often operate websites, occasionally stage public demonstrations, and maintain ties to groups in Europe and elsewhere Neo-Nazism/Aryan Nation

  16. Emerged from Black Panthers: more militant approach to achieving civil rights; founded by StokelyCarmichael Reject integration and intermarriage Want separate institutions…even a separate Nation for black people in America Anti-White & Anti-Semitic Believe that blacks are the “chosen people of God” – not the Jews Black Separatists

  17. Stokely Carmichael Tommy Smith and John Carlos Protest at 1968 Olympics

  18. “It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don’t choose to live anywhere else. There’s land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I’m going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens—if the white man will let them....” —Medgar Evers, “Why I Live in Mississippi” Medgar Evers

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