judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”.

In the midst of racial turmoil, these powerful words were heard by millions. Dr

Martin Luther King Jr spent his entire adult life fighting for justice, peace, and equality,

and it seems we have not come a long way.

Despite being in a new century, hate crimes amongst African Americans have not changed much. Church vandalism and bombings still occur, as well as burning crosses on home lawns and even murder. One of the most heart-wrenching one in recent years, took place in Jasper, Texas. The year, 1998. The victim, a black man.

In June of 1998, a black man named James Byrd Jr., who walked with a limp was offered a ride by three white males. Instead of giving him a ride, they beat him maliciously until he died. After they were done, they dragged his lifeless body behind their truck until his body was partially dismembered.

Criminalogist , Dr. Jack McDevitt says that “Hate crimes are message crimes. They are different from other crimes in that the offender is sending a message to members of a certain group that they are unwelcome”. No message has been mo

The case of Matthew Shepard rocked the nation in 1998. He was brutally tortured and eventually beaten to death by two “men” of the same age because he was gay. Aaron Mckinney and Russell Henderson said that Matthew tried to “make a move” on them. So they pistol-whipped him and savagely beat him unconscious. They then tied him to a log fence, where he was later found. Matthew died five days later.

One explanation of why they became involved in the skinheads was because: Bryan had finally found someone who accepted him. In Hitler he found his surrogate father, someone who had channeled hate into something constructive: no less than the destruction of anyone who was different. It was a philosophy with broad appeal, which is why it stood the test of time and now, fifty years later, after Hitler had died, his legacy was the hate in Bryan Freeman’s heart, hate that was born from rigid, unloving parents, hate born from a religion that demanded he stay an outsider, hate born from kids looking at him funny because he didn’t have a birthday or Christmas dinner, hate born from too many tears and too little love. But now, he was accepted in the white Aryan brotherhood of man (Rosen 145)

That said, the idea of allowing deliberate inciting of violence doesn't seem like something worth protecting, no matter against who it is directed

In Florida, a Jewish woman who was in a chat room, was told by another internet user, “you belong in a gas chamber” and “your people are the product of Satan having sex with Eve”. And in Louisiana, and email addressed to “motherf----in’ Jewish Niggers” read that “the day will come (and trust me, it will be sooner that you think) when we will kill each and every one of you bitches for causing t

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