Hate Crimes In America

Many various individuals can be affected by hate crimes. The researcher will talk about hate crimes based on religion. The United States is considered one of the most immigrant friendly nations in the world. Individuals who vary in ethnicity and as well religion have worked side by side, and lived together in this country. Unfortunately in the past few centuries, it has become more apparent that different groups have been discriminated against. In a theoretical article, Mitchell Sherr and Max Montesino (2009) describe the growth in hate crime against groups such as Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and also Latinos in the United States since 2000. Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, Americans perceived that it was an attack …show more content…
Racial hate crimes began back when pioneers first came to America and tried to take over the Native Americans land. After that racial hate continued with slavery, and segregation. However, many various races go through hate crimes everyday. Sadly, the non-white population in America has continually been subjected to individual and institutional forms of racial hate crimes (Crocker 2007). One of the most memorable racial hate crimes that occurred in America was lynching. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary lynching is defined as “to be put to death (as by hanging by mob action without legal sanction. In an East Texas Historical Journal by Brandon Jett he states that from 1890 to 1920 lynching was the most prevalent example of racial hate crime. A total of at least 2,522 African Americans died at the hands of these lynch mobs. However, during the Jim Crow era lynching still remained a threat to African Americans, then after 1920 lynching diminished. Think positively everyone should think of each other as equal and shouldn’t hate others when it comes to race. However, research shows that racial hate is still apparent in the United States, and starts and builds in the home where the individual grows up. Also, racial hate crimes take place frequently in other areas besides the United States. In an empirical article Chongatera (2013) examines hate-crime victimization against visible minority groups in Canada. This study received their data from the Ethnic Diversity Survey of Statistics Canada. The visible minorities that were in this sample were Blacks, Chinese, South Asian Filipinos, Arab/ West Asians, etc. The outcome of this study, out of the 42,000 that were sampled, 1.6% of the population sampled reported experiencing hate crimes. Also, these researchers found that the experience of hate crime victimization as a consequence of race, skin, or even color