Racial Hate Crimes Research Paper

Body Paragraph One Topic Sentence: This paragraph is about racial hate crimes. Racial hate crimes are crimes committed because of somebody's color, or race. In one hate crime, A white-supremacist shot killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. He was only 21 years old, and had walked into a church and shot African-Americans that had ages range from 27 all the way to 87. He had made sure one person was left alive to tell the story (NewsCurrents). A notorious white-supremacist group called the Ku Klux Klan (or the KKK) has been around since 1865 (Southern Poverty Law Center). According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “Today, the Center estimates that there are between 5,000 and 8,000 Klan members, split among dozens of different - and often warring - organizations that use the Klan name”(SPLC). The final group that is the worst of the bunch is the Racist Skinheads. A skinhead is a person that has short, usually bald hair, black boots, and aggressive. Add racism into that, and you get a short tempered, racist, neo-nazi. According to Southern Poverty Law Center ¨Racist skinheads are among the most dangerous radical-right threats facing law enforcement today. The products of a frequently violent and criminal subculture, these men and women, typically imbued with neo-Nazi beliefs about Jews, blacks, LGBT people and
Religious hate groups have been increasing by quite a bit ever since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Especially anti-Muslim groups. A religious hate crime is a crime committed because of somebody’s religion. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, ¨Anti-Muslim hate groups are a relatively new phenomenon in the United States, most of them appearing in the aftermath of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Earlier anti-Muslim groups tended to be religious in orientation and disputed Islam’s status as a respectable