All you need to know about Xenohobia and mistreatment of immigrants

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Immigration from 1870 to 1920: Nativist Xenophobia and Persecution of Immigrants
G. Stolyarov II
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Immigrants to the United States from 1870 to 1920 were not always welcomed. Many faced unjust and even violent persecution from well-connected nativist groups, who often acted out of nothing more than ignorance and prejudice.

No one expressed and condemned the irrationality of the xenophobia exhibited by the nativist groups against immigrants more vividly than Thomas Nast. His cartoon, ironically titled, "Pacific Chivalry: Encouragement to Chinese Immigration," portrays Nast's response to some of the most extreme forms of racism and nativism in the country at the time.

You see a California native whipping and pulling the hair of a defenseless Chinese immigrant. In the inscription in the background, you can barely see written some of the things that aid the abuser in his cruelty. The inscription reads: "Courts of justice closed to Chinese; extra taxes to Yellowjack."

What does this cartoon suggest about the means that Chinese and many other immigrants had to resist invasions of their rights and dignity? They had just about no means whatsoever. Nast recognized that many of these productive and peace-loving individuals were barred from resisting their inferior condition by small, well-organized activist groups connected with the legislature and prepared to use all means necessary, from the law to vigilante violence, to damage the immigrants. The American people were not opposed to immigration, but many powerful and well-connected elites of the time were.

Indeed, the xenophobia against immigrants sometimes reached horrific extremes. There was substantial discrimination against the Chinese in terms of wages and employment conditions in the West, but this passage by historian John Higham refers to some of the more brutal attacks on their freedoms.

"No variety of anti-European sentiment has ever approached the violent extremes to which anti-Chinese agitation went in the 1870s and 1880s. Lynching, boycotts, and mass expulsions...harassed the Chinese." (Higham 1963)

Of course, in order to make these actions seem more tolerable in their eyes, nativists tried to justify them by conceiving of Asian immigrants as inferior beings. They could back down somewhat and grant some degree of equality to foreign whites, but this would enable them to play a powerful race card which contained some vicious stereotypes. Anti-immigrant stereotypes were spread by many labor unionists, especially Samuel Gompers, who wrote that "both the intelligence and the prosperity of our working people are endangered by the present immigration. Cheap labor... ignorant labor...takes our jobs and cuts our wages."

There are numerous fallacies in Gompers's claims. Immigration creates jobs rather than destroying them. Immigrants did not steal jobs, but rather took work that few natives wanted. Half of immigrants were indeed unskilled, but the other half consisted of people just as, if not more than, educated and innovative than the native population. Indeed, without immigrants, American economic prosperity would have been cut by more than half.

It seems, however, that some debates in American history linger on for centuries. The immigration debate is one of them. Currently, as immigration restrictions in the past thirty years have been laxer than previously, we are experiencing a new massive influx of foreigners into this country. The benefits that these immigrants bring are even more obvious today than ever, but the nativists are still around to attempt to impose stricter quotas and border control measures. They are often still guided by the same fallacious arguments about immigrants stealing jobs or polluting the country's culture.

Novelist Stephen Vincent Benet offered a powerful response to nativism, relevant both during his time and today: "Remember that when you say, 'I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,' you have denied America with that word."

Sources:

http://web.uccs.edu/~history/f...st153/immigrants.htm
http://www.bedfordstmartins.co...dules/mod20/main.htm
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/
http://nimbus.mysticseaport.or...s/immigration-0.html
http://www.h-net.org/~shgape/bibs/immig.html
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ed...ropean/wimmlink.html
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/bridging.html
http://www.edc.org/CCT/NDL/199...e/stan/immlinks.html
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wire.../listimmigratli.html
http://www.bcps.org/offices/li...ation/resources.html
http://www.pbs.org/newamerican...tml/amimm_pp403.html
http://www.ailf.org/pubed/pe_celeb_historical.asp
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nd...mmgnts/immgrnts.html
http://www.internationalchanne...n/ellis/process.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nd...ative_american3.html
http://mi.essortment.com/postcivilwarr_rrid.htm
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/civilwar/settlement.html
http://www.civilwarhome.com/irish.htm
http://www.marist.edu/summerscholars/97/modimm.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/fe...migrnt/immigrnt.html
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/fe...mmgnts/immgrnts.html
http://internet.ggu.edu/univer...ibrary/histimmi.html
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html
http://www.archives.gov/public...ation_records_1.html
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Immigration from 1870 to 1920: Nativist Xenophobia and Persecution of Immigrants
G. Stolyarov II
G. Stolyarov II, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Jun 5, 2007 "Contribute content like this. Start Here."

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1920
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Immigrants to the United States from 1870 to 1920 were not always welcomed. Many faced unjust and even violent persecution from well-connected nativist groups, who often acted out of nothing more than ignorance and prejudice.

No one expressed and condemned the irrationality of the xenophobia exhibited by the nativist groups against immigrants more vividly than Thomas Nast. His cartoon, ironically titled, "Pacific Chivalry: Encouragement to Chinese Immigration," portrays Nast's response to some of the most extreme forms of racism and nativism in the country at the time.

You see a California native whipping and pulling the hair of a defenseless Chinese immigrant. In the inscription in the background, you can barely see written some of the things that aid the abuser in his cruelty. The inscription reads: "Courts of justice closed to Chinese; extra taxes to Yellowjack."

What does this cartoon suggest about the means that Chinese and many other immigrants had to resist invasions of their rights and dignity? They had just about no means whatsoever. Nast recognized that many of these productive and peace-loving individuals were barred from resisting their inferior condition by small, well-organized activist groups connected with the legislature and prepared to use all means necessary, from the law to vigilante violence, to damage the immigrants. The American people were not opposed to immigration, but many powerful and well-connected elites of the time were.

Indeed, the xenophobia against immigrants sometimes reached horrific extremes. There was substantial discrimination against the Chinese in terms of wages and employment conditions in the West, but this passage by historian John Higham refers to some of the more brutal attacks on their freedoms.

"No variety of anti-European sentiment has ever approached the violent extremes to which anti-Chinese agitation went in the 1870s and 1880s. Lynching, boycotts, and mass expulsions...harassed the Chinese." (Higham 1963)

Of course, in order to make these actions seem more tolerable in their eyes, nativists tried to justify them by conceiving of Asian immigrants as inferior beings. They could back down somewhat and grant some degree of equality to foreign whites, but this would enable them to play a powerful race card which contained some vicious stereotypes. Anti-immigrant stereotypes were spread by many labor unionists, especially Samuel Gompers, who wrote that "both the intelligence and the prosperity of our working people are endangered by the present immigration. Cheap labor... ignorant labor...takes our jobs and cuts our wages."

There are numerous fallacies in Gompers's claims. Immigration creates jobs rather than destroying them. Immigrants did not steal jobs, but rather took work that few natives wanted. Half of immigrants were indeed unskilled, but the other half consisted of people just as, if not more than, educated and innovative than the native population. Indeed, without immigrants, American economic prosperity would have been cut by more than half.

It seems, however, that some debates in American history linger on for centuries. The immigration debate is one of them. Currently, as immigration restrictions in the past thirty years have been laxer than previously, we are experiencing a new massive influx of foreigners into this country. The benefits that these immigrants bring are even more obvious today than ever, but the nativists are still around to attempt to impose stricter quotas and border control measures. They are often still guided by the same fallacious arguments about immigrants stealing jobs or polluting the country's culture.

Novelist Stephen Vincent Benet offered a powerful response to nativism, relevant both during his time and today: "Remember that when you say, 'I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,' you have denied America with that word."

Sources:

http://web.uccs.edu/~history/f...st153/immigrants.htm
http://www.bedfordstmartins.co...dules/mod20/main.htm
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/
http://nimbus.mysticseaport.or...s/immigration-0.html
http://www.h-net.org/~shgape/bibs/immig.html
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ed...ropean/wimmlink.html
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/bridging.html
http://www.edc.org/CCT/NDL/199...e/stan/immlinks.html
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wire.../listimmigratli.html
http://www.bcps.org/offices/li...ation/resources.html
http://www.pbs.org/newamerican...tml/amimm_pp403.html
http://www.ailf.org/pubed/pe_celeb_historical.asp
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nd...mmgnts/immgrnts.html
http://www.internationalchanne...n/ellis/process.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nd...ative_american3.html
http://mi.essortment.com/postcivilwarr_rrid.htm
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/civilwar/settlement.html
http://www.civilwarhome.com/irish.htm
http://www.marist.edu/summerscholars/97/modimm.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/fe...migrnt/immigrnt.html
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/fe...mmgnts/immgrnts.html
http://internet.ggu.edu/univer...ibrary/histimmi.html
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html
http://www.archives.gov/public...ation_records_1.html
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How about these immigrants?

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by federale86:
How about these immigrants?

</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Those immigrants are no different from Neo Nazis who terrorize and persecute innocent immigrants.

Both target to persecute and/or exterminate the innocent civilians.

Be it Salem "witch" hunters or Taliban "infidel" killers, they are in essence not different from each other.

[federale86]

What neo-Nazis are terrorizing immigrants? Name one incident in last 5 years.

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Go to SPLC website and read for yourself. Hate crimes are on the rise, especially those targeting immigrants.

[federale86]

Lie. Muslims are attacking synagoges, but no Nazis involved. Hate crimes against Jews, whites, and Christians are up. No evidence of hate crimes against Muslims or immigrants.

Check the FBI real crime statistics.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by federale86:
Lie. Muslims are attacking synagoges, but no Nazis involved. Hate crimes against Jews, whites, and Christians are up. No evidence of hate crimes against Muslims or immigrants.

Check the FBI real crime statistics.

</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

1. The main culprit and source of hatred when it came to anti-Jewish attacks was always a Christian Church, throughout entire middle ages, including the mass deportations initiated by King Richard the Lionhearted and many other English and European Kings (of Aragon, France and others).
Go read the history, see how Jews were fleeing Europe and Inquisition (Spain and Hungary in particular) and seeking refuge in the Ottoman Empire during the balkan wars of 1600-1700.

Hatred against Jews is deeply ingrained in Christian Religious tradition, as it is peculiarly Christian tradition to accuse Jews of killing the Jesus Christ (who, ironically, himself was a Jew. So, Christians in effect were persecuting and murdering Jews because of Jews allegedly killing another Jew).

Late Wahabi, Salafi and other contemporary Muslims merely were copy-cats and assimilated the old Christian traditions after World War II, and, if you dig deeper who knows who were agents in charge that were brainwashing Muslims and Arabs to murder and kill their neighbors of thousands of years with whom they have lived in relative peace and harmony before.

Being now atheist to the core myself, I know all Religions are mere products of human imagination that were and are abused by politicians to manipulate masses and impose mind control over sizable portions of respective populations, so no religion on my eyes deserves to be absolved of guilt when it comes to ethnic and religious persecutions and killings, but as far as persecution of various races, Jews and other religious groups concerned, Muslims have very long way to go to equal the atrocities committed by Medieval Christians.

So, stick it up your rear end to begin with.


As to evidence of Crime against minorities in past 10 years, just go and look up , it's all reported on SPLC website, they have statistics , numbers, charts, all you want or need to see what was happening here lately.

There are some particularly disturbing, twisted and indicative of vicious stupidity of hateful Neo-Nazis crimes in last several years, including the incidents where Sikh men were murdered in different parts of country (one in Texas and another in New Jersey), because they were mistaken for Muslims, due to wearing a turban that looks very much like those worn by Mullahs, calling 24/7 for Jihad on Fox news.

And what an irony in it: the Sikh men, of all others, the practitioners of Sikh Religion, not even Muslims! Sikhs, mind you, who are in conflict with Muslims over some contentious issues, THEY got killed by bypassing s.h.o.o.t.e.r.s for simply appearing to be Muslims! These are recorded facts.
One of the murderers was convicted , sentenced to death and executed recently in Texas.

I have checked REAL statistics and have looked up REAL data, or else I wouldn't be writing what I do.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by iperson:
Some simple facts to highlight how artificial Christianity is, based on pure falsehoods, myths, astrology and Caesar strokes of a bird pen..

First lightning bolt: the three stars in the Constellation of Orion. This is where the story of the three Kings coming from the East to bow in front of the new King comes from, the story found in the Gospels is simply based on the pagan then worldwide known myth of the three stars in the constellation of Orion, still visible today in the autumn skyy indeed.
Here's a little trivia tidbit - just a few weeks ago, if not days there had been a new nova explosion not far from the Orion constellation which created a very bright new star. According to the pagan astrology we should be expecting a new King, maybe a new Messiah coming to the Earth soon enough, or maybe he's just been born. If we lived in those ancient times, a visit of three foreign ambassadors to the King Obama would be a sure sign of him being the new Messiah, which would prompt attempts of his assassination from some neo nazi factions currently known under the banner of teabaggers.
But I digress. This is only one of many myths the stories of Jesus, his actual name being Joshua in his lifetime, was transformed into Jesus to match the then most popular earthly egyptian god Horus.
Joshua + Horus = Jesus. Nobody called Joshua Jesus in his lifetime.
Why did the transformation take place a hundred years later by the four gospel writers? It's simple, so that people believed Jesus was as godly as Horus. The smart writers knew the mentality of people, by the simple mechanism of word association.
And of course the last but not the least (right in this post because I could expand on every single biblical gospel story to trace its true origin), the fact of Caesar Constantine in 345 A.D. signing a piece of paper using simple ink that stated and sealed the order that Jesus previously known as carpenter Joshua was God, or the Son of God. No one previously in his time or between 0 A.D. and 345 A.D. believed or thought Joshua was God, nor did he ever claim to have been one.

No human being can create a god out of a human, or out of the air just because they say so. Thus so, logically, there is no such thing as God, and everyone sooner or later meets this reality.
I prefer to meet reality now during my lifetime than be smashed with it at the end. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have started few threads with stand up comedians making healthy fun of religion and religious people. Feel free to post there your religious views.

This thread is about the Xenophobia and current air of hatred and persecution against immigrants of certain appearance and assumed ethnic and religious background which lately gains wide spread support among various groups of population.

There is currently a lot of alien-phobia that manifests itself as part of daily routine now and my goal here is to speak about various aspects and hardships of being an alien here now.

I mentioned religion in response to fede who appeared to suggest that there ever existed or exists a religion in the world that has hated and persecuted Jews as much or more than Christians did. I didn't mean to turn this thread into place to discuss religion per se (I have other,very funny threads to do that).

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Ventura, CA
Daniel Dockery, 22, was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to making a felony criminal threat. Dockery allegedly told two teenage boys in the Ojai area that he was a skinhead before making racial slurs, slapping one and threatening to kill both of them slurs, slapping one and threatening to kill both of them in June.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 08/31/2011
Coeur d'Alene, ID
A white man allegedly yelled racial slurs at a black man walking past his house. Joel T. Diekhoff was charged with felony malicious harassment.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 08/27/2011
Long Beach, CA
Jorge Jhovanoy Ibarrias, 21, pleaded no contest to one count of felony battery with serious bodily injury with a hate crime enhancement for punching a *** man in the face on July 24. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 08/25/2011
Hempfield, PA
Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on vehicles, driveways and a fence.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 08/21/2011
Antelope, CA
Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti was written on fences, cars, garages and mailboxes.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 08/16/2011
Wichita, KS
Three white ***** allegedly yelled racial slurs at a black man, threw bottles at him and then attempted to run him over with their vehicle.
Type: Assault
Reported: 08/15/2011
Pasadena, CA
Racist graffiti targeting Latinos was scrawled on a planter outside a fast food restaurant.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 08/14/2011
Houston, TX
Four white men, Michael Joe McLaughlin, 40; Brian Kerstsetter, 32; Joseph Staggs, 48, and Charles Allen Cannon, 25, allegedly attacked a black man at a bus stop.
Type: Assault
Reported: 08/13/2011
St. Paul, MN
George Thompson, 64, pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of an 83-year-old Somali man in May 2010 by assaulting him, yelling that the man was Muslim and should go back to Africa and threatening to kill him.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 08/11/2011
Jersey City, NJ
A group of teenagers allegedly yelled anti-Asian epithets at a Filipino man and attempted to follow him into his apartment building.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 08/10/2011

Washington, DC
Christian Washington, 19, was charged with bias-related assault after he and several other men allegedly yelled anti-*** slurs at five *******s outside a Metro station on July 30 and then beat them.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 08/09/2011
Deerfield, OH
Fliers from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were left on cars.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 08/09/2011
Pasadena, CA
Racist and anti-*** graffiti was spray-painted on buildings.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 08/08/2011
Des Moines, IA
A doll with its face, hands and feet painted black was hung from a black woman's garage door. A racial slur, profanities and a threat for her to leave her job 'or else' also were spray-painted on the garage. A racial slur was allegedly written on the woman's locker at work in May.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/26/2011
Detroit, MI
Glenn E. Morgan Jr. was charged with mailing threatening communications through the U.S. mail after he allegedly sent photos and letters that included racial slurs and threats to an interracial couple.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 07/26/2011
Jupiter Farms, FL
Swastikas and racial slurs were spray-painted on stop signs in a neighborhood.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/25/2011
Wheaton, MD
Steven Armstrong, 53, was convicted of a hate crime and vandalism for slashing the tires of his Latino neighbors in 2010.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 07/21/2011
Little Rock, AR
Two men pleaded guilty in federal court to a civil-rights violation stemming from a cross-burning in front of a black man's apartment Aug. 28.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 07/20/2011
Asheville, NC
A 15-year-old was charged with assault and damage to property in connection with a Feb. 14 incident where he and three others allegedly taunted and assaulted a man they believed to be ***. Lamon Lewis Hopkins, 25, had already been charged with felony assault in the incident.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 07/20/2011
Salado, AR
Tony Branscum, 25, and James Bradley `Brad` Branscum, 23, pleaded guilty to federal hate charges of violating housing rights in connection with an cross burning at a black man's residence.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 07/19/2011

Lawrenceport, IN
James Maple, 22, was arrested on second- degree criminal mischief charges from Florida for allegedly participating in the spray-painting of anti-Semitic graffiti on a synagogue there. Cory Gallman, 20; a 16-year-old boy and a 17- year-old girl were arrested on hate crime charges in Mount Dora, Fla.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 07/19/2011
Minneapolis, MN
Racial epithets were spray-painted on three cars.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/19/2011
Daytona Beach, FL
A white man yelled a racial slur at a black neighbor then assaulted him.
Type: Assault
Reported: 07/16/2011
Potomac, MD
A middle school was vandalized with graffiti and “hate language.”
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/15/2011
Cherry Hill, NJ
The hands on a statue of Mary at St. Mary's Church were broken off.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/15/2011
Lemon Grove, NJ
A Latino man was allegedly beaten by a group of white men who yelled an epithet and the words 'white power' during the road rage incident.
Type: Assault
Reported: 07/15/2011
Atlanta, GA
Neal Ray Schmidt, 59, a former state leader for the Ku Klux Klan in Missouri, pleaded guilty to driving to Georgia with the intent of having *** with two 14-year-old girls he met online. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 07/14/2011
Verona, PA
A noose was left hanging from the rafters near a production line where a black employee works in a beverage company.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 07/14/2011
Westover, MD
Fliers promoting a Ku Klux Klan event in Virginia were distributed.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 07/13/2011
Milford, DE
Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti has been written on fences, cars, houses and a boat in residential neighborhoods since late June.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/12/2011

Mount Dora, FL
A new synagogue was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/11/2011
Seattle, WA
Fliers from the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement were left on car windshields in a mall parking lot.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 07/10/2011
Chattanooga, TN
Three men threw ignited fireworks from a moving vehicle while shouting racial slurs.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 07/09/2011
Seattle, WA
Fliers from the white supremacist Northwest Front were left on doors, gates and mailboxes.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 07/09/2011
Belleville, IL
A white man allegedly used racial epithets to incite a fight with a 14-year-old youth. Kevin T. Malone, 51, was charged on July 18 with two counts of hate crime and the teen was charged with disorderly conduct.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 07/08/2011
Berea, KY
Racial slurs were spray-painted on the vehicles of an interracial couple.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/08/2011
New York, NY
Two women allegedly yelled ethnic slurs and assaulted a woman of Pakistani origin who was wearing a hijab. Antoinette S. Ivey, 32, was charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 07/06/2011
Danville, VA
Swastikas were painted on the door and sidewalk of a synagogue.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 07/06/2011
Phoenix, AZ
Gary Thomas Kelley, 51, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder and 7 1/2 years for aggravated assault for the May 2010 shooting death of his Latino neighbor Juan Varela. Police said before shooting Varela Kelley repeatedly used a racial slur and told Varela to `go back to Mexico` or he would die. The incident occurred less than two weeks after Arizona's controversial immigrant bill was passed.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 07/05/2011
Columbus, GA
Fliers from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were left at businesses.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 07/03/2011

Colorado Springs, CO
A group of people, including two *** soldiers, were allegedly beaten by a group of black men who yelled anti-*** epithets.
Type: Assault
Reported: 07/02/2011
Lancaster, CA
Anti-*** graffiti that advocated killing homosexuals was spray-painted on three businesses.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 06/30/2011
Meiners Oaks, CA
Two *****, one of them Latino, were allegedly threatened by a man and a woman. Self-identified skinhead Daniel Dockery, 22, was charged with suspicion of making criminal threats, a hate crime enhancement and possession of a controlled substance after he allegedly said he hated `Mexicans,` shouted racial and sexual slurs at the youths and slapped one in the face. Shauna Criner, 29, was charged with suspicion of making criminal threats and possession of a controlled substance.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/30/2011
Sheboygan, WI
Neo-Nazi material and a series of threatening notes claiming that bombs had been placed in police and army buildings and that the city would be destroyed were left at a public library.
Type: Threat
Reported: 06/30/2011
Springfield, MA
A *** man allegedly was beaten by nine people, some of whom yelled anti-*** slurs. Shay Andre Edwards, 19, and eight juveniles were charged with robbery and civil rights violation with injury.
Type: Assault
Reported: 06/28/2011
Brooklyn, NY
A Turkish man and woman were allegedly attacked by a next-door neighbor who yelled anti-Arab slurs and called them terrorists. Simchon Schwartz, 46, was charged with felony assault and felony criminal mischief, both as hate crimes; resisting arrest, obstructing police, menacing and harassment after he allegedly shoved the woman against a car and poured beer on her head and then punched her husband in the face.
Type: Assault
Reported: 06/28/2011
Beaumont, TX
Carl Carver, a leader in the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murders of an Aryan Brotherhood member and his girlfriend over a drug debt in 2007.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/28/2011
Turtletown, TN
An interracial couple's dog was found dead with a rope tied several times around its neck more than a week after a piece of a cinder block with a racist death threat was thrown through a window of their mobile home.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 06/27/2011
Chicago, IL
Tires on floats in the annual *** pride parade were punctured the day after the New York state senate voted to legalize *** marriage.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 06/26/2011
Huntingdon, PA
Kory R. Hook, 20, and Joshua T. Wirt, 21, were charged with burglary, criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass and simple assault for allegedly beating a man in his home. Hook faces additional charges of aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly using a racial epithet against the victim.
Type: Assault
Reported: 06/26/2011

Pittsburgh, PA
White supremacist Richard Poplawski, 24, was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and 25 other crimes in connection for the deaths of three Pittsburgh police officers in a 2009 ambush. He was given three consecutive death sentences.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/25/2011
Sapulpa, OK
A burned cross was left on the lawn of a black church.
Type: Cross Burnings
Reported: 06/24/2011
New York, NY
Six teenagers were each charged with murder as a hate crime for allegedly making anti-*** remarks and then beating and stomping to death an 18-year-old youth the ***** believed to be homosexual.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/23/2011
Bridgeport, CT
William Bolton, 32, a former member of the white supremacist group Battalion 14, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and three years of supervised release for robbery, conspiracy and sale of a firearm to a felon after he participated in a plan to sell a sawed-off rifle to members of the Ku Klux Klan in 2010.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/22/2011
Santa Monica, CA
Members of a high school wrestling team chained an African-American teammate to a locker and hung a noose around a brown wrestling dummy.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 06/21/2011
Newark, NJ
Alrashim Chamber, 24, was indicted on murder and bias intimidation charges for allegedly killing Victoria Carmen White, a transgender woman he met at a nightclub in September 2010.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/21/2011
Beaumont, TX
Charles Cameron Frazier, 29, was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a 2007 murders of a man and woman ordered by a leader of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/21/2011
Santa Ana, CA
Marten Joseph Brandel, 45, was arrested on suspicion of a hate crime for allegedly hanging a noose in the doorway of a *** rights organization in October.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/19/2011
Turtletown, TN
A piece of a cinder block with a racist death threat taped to it was thrown through the window of an interracial couple's mobile home.
Type: Threat
Reported: 06/16/2011
Poolesville, MD
Two 16-year-olds and a 14-year- old were charged with burglary and destruction of property for allegedly spray-painting graffiti that included racist references on the walls, windows and basketball court at a high school.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/15/2011

Poolesville, MD
Graffiti that included a swastika, an ethnic slur and the letters `KKK` was spray- painted on the basketball court and outside walls and windows of a high school.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 06/13/2011
Boise, ID
Anti-Semitic graffiti was written on a Jewish center.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 06/12/2011
Los Angeles, CA
A 25-year-old gang member has been sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years in the racially-motivated drive-by killing of a bowling alley employee.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/10/2011
Van Nuys, CA
Reported Latino gang member Martin Soleto, 25, was sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years for his part in the 2008 racially motivated drive-by killing of a black man. Richard Bordelon, the alleged shooter, was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 47 years to life.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/09/2011
Vancouver, WA
Former Aryan Nations member Zachary Beck, 32, was convicted of conspiracy to violate civil rights for shouting racial epithets while attacking a black man in a Vancouver bar in January 2010.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/09/2011
Moline, IL
Four Hispanic ***** were accused of attacking two black ***** with bats and bricks.
Type: Assault
Reported: 06/07/2011
Murfreesboro, TN
The words `white power` were written on a black couple's car.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 06/06/2011
Elk Grove, CA
Joel Olivarez, 30, was charged with aggravated battery as a hate crime after he allegedly shouted anti-*** slurs and attacked a man in the parking lot of a bowling alley.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/05/2011
Queens, NY
Gustavo Rojas, 26; Abel Cabrera- Rojas, 31; and Luis Franco, 27, were arrested for allegedly using anti-*** epithets and punching and kicking two women and one man after a *** pride parade.
Type: Assault
Reported: 06/05/2011
Woburn, MA
William Tronsen, 41, pleaded guilty to charges of attempted arson of a dwelling, attempt to burn a motor vehicle, civil rights violation, malicious destruction of property and filing a false police report after he screamed racial slurs as he attempted to set fire to a duplex where his ex-wife, who is black, and his Cambodian neighbors lived in December 2009.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/01/2011

New York, NY
Javier Ortiz Jr., 16, was charged with menacing and aggravated harassment, along with weapons possession and hate crime charges, after he and six other people allegedly used anti-*** slurs and threatened to beat up a man.
Type: Threat
Reported: 06/01/2011
Lowell, MA
Shamon J. Jarrett, 45, was charged with two counts of civil rights violations for allegedly yelling racial slurs at a Latino police officer who intervened in a confrontation between Jarrett and another man, who said Jarrett told him to `go back to (his) country.`
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/31/2011
Beaumont, TX
Brent Stalsby, 30, was sentenced to life in federal prison after pleading guilty to committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity for murdering a man and woman in 2007 on the orders of a leader in the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/25/2011
St. Cloud, MN
Three men were arrested for attacking a *** man.
Type: Assault
Reported: 05/23/2011
Palo Alto, CA
Swastikas were painted on three cars.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/22/2011
St. Paul, MN
Five large, upside-down crosses were painted across the main entrance of the Cathedral of St. Paul.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/22/2011
Portland, OR
A group assaulted two men after seeing them walking together holding hands.
Type: Assault
Reported: 05/22/2011
Little Rock, AR
Frankie Maybee was found guilty of five counts of committing a federal hate crime and one count of conspiring to commit a federal hate crime in connection with a June 2010 attack on five Latino men. Maybee and another man followed the Latino men's vehicle and rammed it with their truck, causing the men's vehicle to crash and burst into flames. All five men were injured.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/20/2011
Calabasas, CA
Three high school students were charged with vandalizing their campus with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/18/2011
Kenton County, KY
Devlin Burke, a white supremacist, was convicted of committing a hate crime for attacking four people outside a ***-friendly bar.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/17/2011

New York, NY
Ahmed Ferhani was indicted for plotting to blow up a synagogue.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/17/2011
Little Rock, AR
Sean Popejoy, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of committing a hate crime and a second conspiracy count in connection with a June 2010 attack on five Latino men. Popejoy and another man followed the Latino men's vehicle and rammed it with their truck, causing the men's vehicle to crash and burst into flames. All five men were injured.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/16/2011
Fouke, AR
Racist comments and swastikas were painted on the exterior of a church.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/16/2011
Vallejo, CA
Racial epithets were written on the doorway and mailbox of a community radio station founded by a black man. The slurs were also written on a vehicle owned by the man's son.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/14/2011
Southfield, MI
A vehicle owned by a Muslim man of Indian heritage was vandalized and an ethnic slur was written on it.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/14/2011
Binghamton, NY
A swastika was spray-painted on the walkway of a bridge.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/14/2011
Montgomery, NJ
A racial epithet was spray-painted on a wall outside a high school.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/07/2011
Santa Monica, CA
A black high school student allegedly found a brown mannequin with a noose tied around its neck in the school's wrestling practice room. The student then was allegedly chained to a locker by two fellow members of the wrestling team who made racial remarks.
Type: Assault
Reported: 05/04/2011
Escondido, CA
Richard Jason Mazon, 18, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, exhibiting a deadly weapon, criminal threats, a hate crime and carrying a concealed weapon for allegedly threatening a black man with a hatchet and yelling racial epithets at him in a parking lot.
Type: Assault
Reported: 05/03/2011
Orcutt, CA
Racist graffiti was scrawled on walls at an elementary school.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/03/2011

Tampa, FL
Marc A. Balentine, 42, a reported member of the white supremacist European Kindred, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for selling pipe bombs to undercover agents. Balentine pleaded guilty to the crime in January.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/03/2011
Portland, ME
Anti-Islamic graffiti was painted on the city's largest mosque following the death of Osama bin Laden.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 05/02/2011
Lacompte, LA
Johnny Mathis, 47, pleaded guilty to interfering with the right to fair housing and using a firearm during a crime of violence. Mathis fired a gun at the home of three Latino neighbors in 2008 during a racially motivated attack.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/28/2011
Shreveport, LA
Jeremy Matthew Moro, 33, and Joshua James Moro, 23, were sentenced to a year and a day in prison for their roles in a 2008 cross burning near the home of an interracial couple.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/28/2011
Arroyo Grande, CA
Two 15-year-olds and one 14- year-old were arrested on suspicion of hate speech, burglary, vandalism and criminal conspiracy after graffiti that included swastikas and racial and ethnic slurs was written in classrooms at a middle school where the ***** had been former students.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/27/2011
Davie, FL
A *** man was allegedly punched and kicked by a man who shouted anti-*** epithets. John William Koontz, 62, was charged with aggravated battery and a hate crime. The victim also alleged Koontz verbally harassed him in the past.
Type: Assault
Reported: 04/25/2011
Fort Gratiot, MI
Plastic Easter eggs containing fliers from the white supremacist Nationalist Coalition and the Northwest Front were left on lawns.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 04/24/2011
Stockton, CA
A mosque was set afire.
Type: Arson
Reported: 04/23/2011
Calabasas, CA
Swastikas and anti-Semitic and racial epithets were spray-painted on doors, walls, sidewalks and a stop sign on a high school campus. Three students were arrested on suspicion of vandalism.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 04/23/2011
Spokane, WA
Federal hate crime charges were added against Kevin William Harpham, a white supremacist suspected of planting a bomb along the Spokane's Martin Luther King Jr. parade route.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/22/2011

Moorhead, MN
Fliers with racist comments and the website address of a white supremacist group were placed around the campus of Minnesota State University-Moorhead.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 04/21/2011
Chicago, IL
William A. White, founder of the neo-Nazi American National Socialist Workers Party, was freed after spending more than two years in prison. This followed a judge's decision to throw out a January jury decision that convicted White of using his website to encourage violence against the foreman of a jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist in 2004.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/20/2011
Trenton, NJ
Dharun Ravi was indicted on bias intimidation and other charges after a series of events led to the suicide of his college roommate, Tyler Clementi.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/19/2011
Springfield, TN
"KKK" was painted on a black couple's mailbox.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 04/19/2011
Houma, LA
William Blackford, 52, was charged with simple criminal damage to property and committing a hate crime for allegedly kicking a glass door of a shop out because the owners are Muslim. Police said Blackford called them to say he did it because of the owners' heritage, saying, `I want to kill them all. We need to get them out of our country.`
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 04/17/2011
Trenton, NJ
The neo-nazi group NSM rallied at the capital.
Type: Rally
Reported: 04/16/2011
Hardy, AR
Five people were indicted on charges related to the fire-bombing of an interracial couple's home.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/14/2011
Springfield, MA
A white man was convicted for the racially motived burning of a predominantly black church just hours after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/14/2011
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Two swastikas were spray-painted on a Native American church.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 04/13/2011
Plains, OH
KKK fliers were left in yards.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 04/09/2011

Rock Hill, SC
Bobby Wilson, 30; Cortezio Laquise Douglas and Darenco Markie Wilmore, both 21; and Lajames Mitchell and Lortarius Duncan, both 22, were all charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature for allegedly calling a *** man an anti-*** slur then hitting him in the head with a beer bottle and beating him.
Type: Assault
Reported: 04/09/2011
Coto de Caza, CA
A man was allegedly beaten and robbed in a park by two men who shouted anti-Semitic epithets. Matthew Gregory Branstetter and Nolan John Wickham, both 19, were charged with aggravated assault and second-degree robbery with hate crime enhancements.
Type: Assault
Reported: 04/06/2011
Hardy, AR
Two racist skinheads were arrested for throwing a molotov cocktail at an interracial couple's home.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 03/16/2011
Bonita Springs, FL
The neo-Nazi group American National Socialist Party left 200 pamphlets in a neighborhood.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 03/16/2011
Bloomington, IL
The Ku Klux Klan left pamphlets in driveways.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 03/16/2011
Queens, NY
A teenager was beaten to death by five other teenagers after he left a party hosted by two *** men.
Type: Murder
Reported: 03/14/2011
Martinsville, IN
Copies of the Ku Klux Klan publication The Crusader were left in driveways.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 03/07/2011
Sellersburg, IN
A *** teen was assaulted in a school restroom. His assailant used anti-*** slurs during the attack.
Type: Assault
Reported: 03/07/2011
Casa Grande, AZ
The words "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" was painted on the side of a house. The phrase is known as the "14 words" among white supremacists.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 03/06/2011
York, PA
The neo-Nazi National Socialist American Labor Party group distributed fliers.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 03/04/2011

Orange County, VA
KKK Fliers were left in driveways.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 03/04/2011
Seattle, WA
Jonathan Baquiring was sentenced to six years in prison for attacking a West Seattle teen. Baquiring and Ahmed Mohamed attacked the teen "because he was a different race than we are," according to Mohamed's guilty plea for the same crime in December 2010. The victim is white.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 03/04/2011
Los Angeles, CA
A swastika was drawn on the sidewalk in front of a landmark Jewish Temple.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 03/03/2011
Marengo, OH
A burned cross was left in a front yard. The phrase "KKK will make you pay" was carved into the cross.
Type: Cross Burnings
Reported: 03/03/2011
Springettsbury Township, PA
The neo-Nazi National Socialist American Labor Party left brochures on cars.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 03/02/2011
Lafayette, LA
Racial slurs were spray painted on the Immaculate Heart of Mary church and school.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 02/27/2011
Pikeville, KY
Ku Klux Klan membership applications were distributed around town.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 02/23/2011
Wilkes Barre, PA
Two men were sentenced to nine years in prison for beating and kicking a Mexican immigrant to death.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 02/23/2011
Fort Worth, TX
A man was indicted for vandalizing a mosque.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 02/23/2011
Pima County, AZ
Shawna Forde, leader of the Minutemen American Defense, was sentenced to death in the killing of a 9-year-old girl and her father.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 02/22/2011

Spokane, WA
A burned bible and painted swastikas were found on vehicles and a house.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 02/21/2011
Long Beach, CA
A man was arrested for vandalizing *** and *******-owned businesses.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 02/18/2011
Tamarac, FL
Three men called a *** man "******" and "*** boy," then punched him in the face.
Type: Assault
Reported: 02/15/2011
Burbank, CA
Flyers from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were left on lawns.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 02/14/2011
Lafayette, LA
Racist graffiti was painted on St. James Baptist Church.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 02/14/2011
Columbia, MO
A University of Missouri-Columbia student sprayed racist graffiti, including the N-word, on school property.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 02/14/2011
Gate City, VA
Several Ku Klux Klan members and supporters gathered to protest the recent discipline of three white students.
Type: Rally
Reported: 02/12/2011
Pittsburgh, PA
A teenager pleaded guilty to burning a cross in the yard of a mixed-race family in November 2009.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 02/10/2011
New York, NY
A black firefighter who filed a bias complaint found a noose hanging on his locker.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 02/07/2011
Tampa, FL
A Muslim man was stabbed after a discussion about religion.
Type: Assault
Reported: 02/06/2011

Franconia, PA
Swastikas and "Jew" were spray painted onto a house and cars.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 02/05/2011
Opelika, AL
A ******* and her friend were beaten up by several people at a bar because of her sexual orientation.
Type: Assault
Reported: 02/04/2011
Hollywood, CA
A Church's sign supporting marriage equality was vandalized.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 02/02/2011
Rowland Heights, CA
Racist graffiti was painted on two local churches.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 01/30/2011
Tacoma, WA
A white supremacist was sentenced to 34 months in prison for a racially motivated attack on a black man in a bar.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 01/29/2011
Wauwatosa, MN
Several homes received white supremacist hate literature.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 01/27/2011
Raleigh, NC
A man is being charged with ethnic intimidation after he pulled a knife on a woman while using racist language.
Type: Harassment
Reported: 01/27/2011
Phoenix, AZ
A man with ties to the National Socialist Movement was arrested for possession of explosive devices.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 01/26/2011
San Francisco, CA
State Senator Yee received death threats including a graphic of an American flag adorned pickup truck dragging a noose.
Type: Threat
Reported: 01/26/2011
Shreveport, LA
A *** man was severely beaten with a pool cue in a bar.
Type: Assault
Reported: 01/26/2011

San Diego, CA
An LGBT center was targeted in a paintball attack.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 01/25/2011
Ridgewood, NJ
A man with neo-Nazi ties was charged with threatening the director of the New York chapter of the Anti-Defamation League.
Type: Threat
Reported: 01/25/2011
Ft. Worth, TX
Timothy Stephen Lee, a leader in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole for drug possession charges.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 01/25/2011
Carroll County, GA
A rock was thrown through a *** man's window then his bedroom was set on fire.
Type: Arson
Reported: 01/24/2011
Billings, MT
Creativity Movement fliers were distributed during Montana State University's MLK day celebration.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 01/17/2011
Springfield, MO
Racist graffiti was painted on an Islamic center.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 01/13/2011
Santa Ana, CA
Racist graffiti was sprayed on a county building.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 01/12/2011
Anaheim, CA
Anti-religious graffiti was painted on a church.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 01/12/2011
Waterbury, CT
A large swastika was spray-painted on a synagogue.
Type: Vandalism
Reported: 01/11/2011
Manhattan, NY
An Upper West Side synagogue received a bomb threat in the mail.
Type: Threat
Reported: 01/04/2011



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