Do you know:

• The number of hate groups in your state?
• How the hate movement  impact the lives of Americans?
• Are whites, Christians, straight, able-bodied, or housed people ever the victim of hate crimes?
• How many hate crimes are committed in the U.S. every year?
• Which categories of people are protected by your state’s hate crimes law – and which are NOT protected?

Based on interviews with dozens of former neo-Nazis and white supremacists, this presentation explores how extremists and other domestic terrorists enter the hate movement, how and why they committed violent hate crimes, and the catalysts that allowed them to reassess their behaviors and abandon the movement, the talk also includes…

o       An assessment of what the U.S. government is
doing – or not doing – to address the rising trend of hate crimes

o       How and why information
Americans read about hate groups and hate crimes is misleading, grossly incomplete, or dead wrong

o       How and why the U.S. government has created a road map for hate groups to follow based on a history of presidential orders, acts of Congress, and U.S. Supreme Court decisions written to eliminate entry by variously selected immigrant groups into the U.S. and to
deny rights to others based on skin color, race, religion, country of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, and other characteristics – the same categories targeted by extremists today

o       How FBI research methodologies to count hate crimes committed every year fails to include reports from hundreds of police departments across the country

o       The influence on print, broadcast, and online media have had on perceptions of hate crimes, including the profiles of offenders and their victims

o       How hate crimes laws in some state conflict with the federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act and laws in other states do not protect all historically marginalized populations

o       Seven Ways to Resist Hate

For more information about The Truth About Hate Groups
and Hate Crimes, contact Lonnie Lusardo at Lonnie@diversitycollaborative.com.

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