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Slayings Renew Calls For Federal Hate Crime Law
Deseret News
/December 17, 2008
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y joined Latino groups in pointing to rising anti-Latino violence, including several murders, as evidence Congress should expand the federal hate-crimes law and the Justice Department’s power to investigate hate crimes.
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on December 18th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Racism is growing away fast and strong in the United States. Now is showing in another minority: the Hispanics. The sentiments anti-immigrants, the increase in violence agains them and the rise of hate crimes are just but indications of this terrible reality. I believe that as Hispanic – Latinos continue to grow in the USA, not out of undocumented immigration but out of a birth (hispanic women have the largest birth rate in the country) fear is taking hold of the present mayority that see in this a teat against their long held special privileges. Congress should see this and take this reality into account and act on this new wave of hate and racism. Now that we have the first African American President Elect, it is time to see that racism is not a matter of only black and white, but will continue to manifest time and again against toward others: jews, women, gays, asians, hispanics or any other group that by normal development of community growth paradigm will come in the future. This wave of unjustice, crime and hate needs to stop and stop for good. Congress has the means to put teeth to this and should do it right away for the benefit of the nation and the health of the country and its unity. Rev. E. E. Muller.
on December 18th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
OK A teat against their long held special privileges.
This is a Lie do not believe it if you have a brain.I am half White and Hispanic and all you Hispanics just keep the Lies coming how all Hispanics have the RIGHT to be in my country that is right MY COUNTRY wait a minute I need to correct myself all you Foreigners is the right PC to call all you that come the right way and the wrong way to MY COUNTRY I am sick of this it has been happening long before I was born and still continues at this very moment I want it to end right now NO MORE FOREIGNERS.
on December 18th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Racism is Bigger than the Halls of Congress and mightier than the Pen.Congress cannot legislate the “Will to Love”.A good place to start in uprooting Racism should begin within our own Hearts! We don’t have to react to Hatred with Hatred because even though a Big Gun can bring Peace,The Peace that it brings is Short Lived, for War begets War and only Love can beget Love.You can’t kill Hatred with a Gun! ,and You can’t imprison Hatred .It’s too BIG! Love is the only Way.
on December 18th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
In March 2008, the United Nations Committee on Elinmination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) set out a document finding that United States needs to reduce racism in its institutional settings, such as housing and justice. During October of 2008 the American Bar Association also produced a document that outlined the aspects of the justice system that require action to reduce discrimination and provide for equal treatment under the law.
However, it will be difficult to obtain compliance. It will take a cohesive effort that is backed by law and the strength of the government to enforce. Regardless of the previous equal rights legislation, the discrimination is rampant as noted by the these two groups, CERD and ABA.
The time has come for change and it should address the issues of discrimination as primary to the core of our existance.
Carolyn Toth
References
American Bar Association. (2007). State death penalty assessments. Retrieved November 28, 2008, from http://www.abanet.org/moratori.....ndings.doc
United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). (2008). Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, United States of America. Retrieved November 28, 2008, from http://www2.ohchr.org/english/.....A-CO-6.pdf
on December 19th, 2008 at 2:22 am
‘Hate Crimes’ are for white people to keep us in
our place. The powers that be know that we should
be disgusted at the illegal immigration problem and
all the crime that minorities in general commit in
this country, and know full well,that by all rights,
we should rise up and do something about. So this
is part of their aganda to make sure those whites who
out of a sense of disillusionment and dispair over the
existing political and social situation that goes off the
deep end are sent away for a very long way. I don’t
condon this behavior, but I can understand it. These
illegal immigrants shouldn’t be here to begin with.
on December 19th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Expanding the Hate Crimes Laws is a top priority for Obama, since he himself was/is a target for a possible Hatre Crime. And I am sure he is in favor of such an expansion so that crimes commited on individuals such as in this case, does not go unpunished. Obama has a broader understanding of the rampant discrimination, biases, and injustices on non-Whites than any other Prez in recent history, because he is a non-White himself. As he stated this in his autobiography book. Currently the folks who are in this country illegally are not protected under the currrent guidelines. And thus, making it difficult to prosecute suspects accused of such.
To cite one good example, just recently a Blackfeet Nation tribal member and his wife were attacked by 3 White brothers at a local bar. They instigated violence by screamed racial profanities at the Natives unprovoked, resulting in a 3 to 1 fight. The Attorney General there in MT refused to charged them with Hate Crimes. Eventually the White brothers got off easy. Cases like these are good example of why we need to boost the relatively new Hate Crime Bill which is also known as the Mathew Sheppard Act. So that Justice can be sought for those who haven’t yet seen Justice. Such as in the case of the Blackfeet Nation man who was beaten by White Supremacists.