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Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 9:08:55 PM

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According to the FBI, more than 8,700 bias-motivated criminal incidents in 49 states, affecting over 11,000 victims, were committed in 1996. Eight of every 10 victims were individuals; the rest were businesses, religious organization or other targets. Most hate crimes occur on residential property.

The three types of hate incidents most reported are racial (5,396), religious (1,401) and related to sexual orientation (1,016).

Violence against women is generally committed by someone they know. Women were attacked about six times more by offenders with whom they had an intimate relationship than were male violence victims. This is one crime that knows no racism: women of all races are equally vulnerable to attacks by intimates.

Only 15 states and the District of Columbia recognize sexual orientation-bias in hate crime statutes. Thirteen states have no hate crime laws whatsoever.

Hate crimes against gays and lesbian accounted for 12.8% of all hate crime statistics in 1995, up from 8.9% in 1991.

Almost two-thirds of the country say that the poor are usually discriminated against in our society. Americans feel that discrimination is routinely aimed at the disabled (61% feel that way), the elderly (54%), gays and lesbians (51%), and Native Americans (50%).

While 70% of African-Americans themselves feel they themselves are discriminated against, only 31% of Americans feel that happens.
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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 9:13:23 PM

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RACISM, CULTURAL & ETHNIC ISSUES

A 1997 survey showed that 93% of whites would vote for a black president, as compared with just 35% forty years ago.

Asian Pacific Americans comprise over 59 different ethnic groups.

According to a recent study of students across America, 69% of Asian students are most likely to have experienced racial prejudice, as compared to 61% of African-Americans, 47% of Hispanics and 39% of whites.

Minority groups s Hispanics, Asians and blacks represent the greatest growing spending power in the U.S., over $600 billion.

Biracial and multiracial people are the "invisible" minorities. On many employment and census forms, there is no appropriate box for them to check.

Between 1968 and 1989, children born to parents of different races increased from 1% of total births to 3.4%.

In 1993, there were 39% more births to Japanese-White parents than to Japanese-Japanese parents in the U.S.3

From 1970 to 1991, the number of mixed-race married couples tripled.3

Eighty percent of the immigrants to this country from 1991-1995 were from Asia, Mexico and Central/South America.

There are currently 28.3 million Latinos in the U.S., constituting 10.7% of the population. It is estimated that by the year 2005, Latinos will become the largest minority group in the country.

Over 62% of Hispanics in this country are native-born, and 69% are U.S. citizens.

Latinos as a group have the highest number of Congressional Media of Honor winners (37).

The U.S. Census has established 350 individual languages categories spoken in the country.

Nine percent of the population can be considered true Native American, Eskimo and Aleut; 7.9% of the United States is foreign born.

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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 9:16:41 PM

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SEXUAL ORIENTATION ISSUES

Nearly one-third of America said they would not want their child in a class with an openly gay teacher.

As many as 10% of the people in this country are admitted homosexuals, whereas the estimate of actuall homosexuals not admitting is estimated at 17%.

As of June 1999, only 12 states had passed civil rights legislation protecting homosexuals in the workplace. In many states, an employer is well within legal rights to fire, refuse to hire, or refuse to promote because of sexual orientation.

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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 9:19:23 PM

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PERSONAL APPEARANCE ISSUES

Seventy-eight percent of the population in the US is deemed overweight, making this group the largest category of people with a "cause."

Two states, Michigan and Connecticut, have anti-fat discrimination laws. Some courts view weight-discrimination claims as disability discrimination, especially in light of the fact that obesity is often genetic and cannot be helped.

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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 9:22:17 PM

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RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION

More than half of respondents would not confront someone who has made a racial or ethnic slur.

Judaism is the religious group most frequently targeted for hate crimes. Anti-Jewish acts of violence outnumber other anti-religious acts in New York City by 60%.

Muslims were early arrivals in North America. By the 1700s, there were many thousands, working as slaves on plantations. In the 1800s, the country saw an influx of Arab Muslims; in the early 1900s, several hundred thousand Muslims from Eastern Europe arrived. Today, there are approximately 5 million Muslims in America.

The first Albanian mosque was opened in Maine in 1915; a group of Polish Muslims opened a mosque in Brooklyn in 1928.

Religious intolerance still inhibits people from getting jobs, having certain rights in some places and, most of all, living in a safe, peaceful community.

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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 9:24:06 PM

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DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION

One in five Americans, approximately 49 million people, have some type of physical disability.

According to the United Nations, there are a half-billion people in the world, and 43 million in the U.S., with disabilities, making the disabled the largest minority in the world.

One in every 12 Americans has a disability. Two out of three people with disabilities are not working, but want to.

Three out of every four managers say that people with disabilities often encounter discrimination in the workplace.

According to the U.S. General Accounting Office, more than half of all job accommodations for people with disabilities cost employers absolutely nothing; another 30% cost less than $500.

Women with disabilities have an additional cross to bear: A 1997 survey of women with disabilities, funded by the Toronto Ministry of Community and Social Services, discovered that 67% have been physically or sexually assaulted as children, as compared with 44% of non-disabled women.

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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 9:26:51 PM

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SOURCES

Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Survey for Human Rights USA, 1997

Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 1997 National Opinion Poll

National Council of La Raza

National Alliance for the Treatment of Obesity

Results of the Yankelovich & Partners poll conducted for The National Hate Test

Human Rights Campaign

Islamic Centers Online

United National Commission on Human Rights

National Organization on Disability

"Future Work," Coates, Jarratt, Mahaffie

U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1995

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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 11:14:12 PM

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Welcome back MistressDread

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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/19/2004 11:50:41 PM

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So where are the facts on hate?

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RE: Facts On Hate - 7/20/2004 7:42:48 AM

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Holy wow those are serious numbers. Thank you for that posting. "Erase The Hate" a sentiment, I agree with, I am curious as to what this orginization is doing to do so.

Mention of "hate laws" was made. I do not see that as a deterrment for these crimes, however. All that means is that the criminals do more jail time, and come back out hateing more. As well as increasing our prison population. I think we can come up with a better way of healing this wound.

Erase the Hate............how?

thanks for reading this, have a great day,

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