Posted on 11/21/2018 12:10:33 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In a recent interview, Michelle Obama helped illuminate an element of black American life rarely discussed in the absence of massive tragedy and more often dismissed or downplayed: the constant threat of violence based on hatred.
Speaking with Oprah Winfrey, Obama said she cannot and will not ever forgive President Donald Trump for stoking a racist conspiracy theory about her husband’s birthplace, because it could easily have inspired the wrong person to take violent action. She and her family have had to live with the risk and manage the toll.
What Obama described is at once a distinct experience - that of the only black First Family - and a common part of black American life. Violence, property crimes, threats and other offenses inspired by racial animus amounted to the most frequent type of hate crime reported in the FBI’s most recent tally of bias crimes. In fact, black Americans have been the most frequent victims of hate crime in every tally of bias incidents generated since the FBI began collecting such data in the early 1990s.
In 2015, when the nation’s current surge in hate crime began, Donald Trump announced his run for president. He did so with a speech which, among other things described Mexican immigrants as rapists.
One day later, Dylann Roof, a white nationalist, attended a prayer meeting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
“It has been the case historically, and certainly since we started to get valid statistical information on hate crimes, that African Americans have been the group most frequently targeted,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute of Race and Justice at Northeastern University.
“Our country’s basic problem with diversity started with slavery and, well, Native American slaughter,” McDevitt said.
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Yep.
Again ‘hate crimes’ are bogus crimes.
Give me a break. It doesn't matter what your thoughts are regarding your victim.
Your ACTS against that person is the crime.
Hate crimes is purely a political hammer to go after white people ... I'm sure everyone's noticed how Muslim, blacks and Latinos are rarely prosecuted for hate crimes when the victim is white.
No hate when they rob, rape and kill whitie.
Such as?
Your opinion is noted but could you give us some examples?
Lies:
> > > the constant threat of violence based on hatred
Implies black people are under constant threat because they are hated because they are black. This is a lie.
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> > > President Donald Trump for stoking a racist conspiracy theory about her husband’s birthplace
There is nothing racist about it. This is a lie.
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> > > In 2015, when the nation’s current surge in hate crime began
I don’t for one minute believe there was a surge in hate crimes. It is a lie.
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> > > Donald Trump announced his run for president. He did so with a speech which, among other things described Mexican immigrants as rapists.
He did no such thing. He said illegal immigration is a conduit for rapists. They are lying here too.
“Michelle Obama helped illuminate...”
No. She helped gin up and shore up the racial divide she and her “husband” have working at since 2007.
OK. I didn’t know if you meant the stats or other stuff.
Hate crimes are a made up category of crime.
I despise the term.
In approximately 93% of murdered blacks are killed by blacks.
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