Comment by Glenn Robinson
There may be less hate groups, or they may be more hidden. Regardless of the quantity – it only takes one hateful person to do massive damage.
Austin shooter belonged to an ultra-conservative Christian hate group, police say http://t.co/cXhWb9Igl8
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 1, 2014
According to reports, a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the office window of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s (D-Mo.) Thursday morning. The Hill has the story:
The Kansas City Police and Kansas City Bomb and Arson Squad responded to the scene and completed an initial survey. No one was in the office when the object or objects were thrown. The cocktail did not explode, according to local reports.
Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Marcia Fudge (Ohio) asked for a speedy investigation and said the people responsible need to be punished to the “fullest extent of the law.”
“The Congressional Black Caucus strongly condemns this type of vandalism targeted at Congressman Cleaver, and denounces any act of violence towards Members of Congress,” she said in a statement. “This type of abhorrent behavior is the most ineffective means of voicing discontent or disagreement.”
Cleaver is currently in Washington and all of his offices are…
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Hate group voices concern and anger over the growing number of migrants illegally crossing into the United States
Source: america.aljazeera.com
These KKK people are real. It only takes a couple bad apples to cause massive harm. And there are others who think like them but don’t wear the hood.
The Southern Poverty Law Center keeps track of how many hate groups there are in the U.S. – it’s a lot.
For the second time in as many days, messages of hate targeted members of South Florida’s Jewish community. Early Monday morning, spray painted swastikas and the word
Source: miami.cbslocal.com
Thank you for sharing +Rishona Campbell
theGRIO REPORT – The Ku Klux Klan is recruiting in South Carolina, using candy and flyers that read at the top “Save our land, Join the Klan.”
Source: thegrio.com
The number of far-right extremist groups fell significantly in 2013 for the first time in a decade, the SPLC found in its annual count, released today. But with a total of more than 2,000 groups, the radical right remains at historically high levels.
Source: www.splcenter.org
There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. How many are near you? Here’s a interactive map.
Source: newsone.com
See on Scoop.it – Community Village Daily
“Most people would be afraid to confront a member of the Ku Klux Klan to talk about racism, but one filmmaker has made it her mission to do just that.
Mo Asumang, daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother, is literally challenging racism head on.”
Click through to WATCH video
She’s super brave. I’m scared to death of the KKK. Although, I’ve read that some will have a dialog if you engage with them – just like in this video.
People apply labels to groups, then that label makes us frightened. But they are human. And often the ‘normal’ person is the one who does something crazy.
I think many people, including the media, the military, and religious groups attempt to over simplify the complexity of human relations, especially the fact that everyone has the capacity to do good or bad.
The human mind is so interconnected and influenced with the culture and community that it lives in, it’s easy for humans to get their ideas twisted, and many never have the opportunity to study philosophy, anthropology, sociology, biology, intercultural studies, nor the opportunity to travel the world. And even with the power of the internet (YouTube ‘university’) – there is still so much ignorance and hate.
The world is in a constant battle between ignorance and knowledge, bad and good, yin and yang.
See on www.huffingtonpost.com
Hate crimes are an affront to us all as Americans and to this nation, declared Attorney General Eric Holder, as he noted America stands with the mourners of three people killed at Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City.
There is something wrong with U.S. culture when we allow avowed racists to walk freely as if they are not a threat.
Racists are terrorists.
See on www.usaonrace.com
Nearly 100 people in the last five years have been murdered by active users of the leading racist website, Stormfront, according to a report released today by the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.
See on www.splcenter.org
