Discrimination And Hate Crimes

Have you ever been victim to hate or discrimination? Are you part of a minority group? Was the person who discriminated you a different race? The answer to most of these questions is… yes. Sadly since the beginning of mankind there has always been someone who is excluded, or has been viewed as different. We as people have a natural instinct to stick with the people we most relate to, and tend to shove those who are different away. Does this always have to be the case? In most situations…. it doesn't, so why do we do it? The answer is simple. Hate. Hate has been with us since the beginning. We all have experienced a bit of hate towards someone at some point in our life. The question is why? Most would say that it is because the hate we feel …show more content…
We have seen a number of hate crimes and discrimination rise against minorities ever since the election of Donald Trump. On Cnn.com they have said, “ Fears of heightened bigotry and hate crimes have turned into reality for some Americans after Donald Trump's presidential win. And the list of incidents keeps growing” ( Yan, Sgueglla, Walker). This goes on to show how many Americans feel that they are now invulnerable to any legal consequences when performing crimes against minorities; just because they have a president who has been promoting this bigotry against minorities. What does this mean to the minorities groups? Does it mean they will have to put up with more hate than what they already do? Possibly? When you have someone who has this great influence towards americans, then it is hard to battle that against them not promoting hate crimes. For example now that Trump is president and he himself is promoting hate then it is a fact that we will see hate crimes rise. One of Cnn’s victim that they interviewed after they were victim to a hate crime said, “ Santiago said. "Racism was always there, but I feel now with our current President having been so vocal in some of the things he says, people feel more comfortable showing that racism, and our family was a target of it." This incident was made to a Puerto Rican family in which one of their car’s had Trump scratched into it and another one saying “go home”. This …show more content…
Somethings however, have changed. The focus on who is hated against has change. People now (mostly americans) have gone from hating African Americans as they did a few years ago; to hating other races mostly composed of: muslims, hispanics, and partially african americans. We all know the horrifying stories of how whites in America discriminated heavily against African Americans. One of the best example from this time that is famously known was the story of Jackie Robinson. We know that Jackie Robinson witnessed a numerous amount of hate and discrimination in his lifetime. He has even gone out and talked about some of the events he had went through. For example in the article “ He Was First” it said that, “As expected, Robison’s presence triggered an ugly racial response. It began with hate mail and death threats against him and his wife and baby boy” (Kellymayer 96). This example shows how hate crimes has relatively stayed the same, but the focus on to who someone performs it to has changed. They have went from that example I have just shared to putting a travel ban on certain countries to prevent those citizens from those countries from entering the US. The worst part is that they do not see how much the people they discriminate against help the country itself. For example many of these muslims, hispanics, and African Americans contribute the