Racism And Hate Crimes

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Racism and hate crimes are a big problem around the world. Many different groups of people in the united states have faced and are facing this kind of problems.For example, Muslims face these problems every single day in today’s American society.It is true that some muslims are terrorist and because of this people are judging evry one of this religion not thinking that is not because of the religion is about the people and what they want to become to be.Only because of this problem muslims are diyng and people do not accept them.

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