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The new “National Pastime” – Immigrant Bashing

Hate Crimes, Lunatic Fringe, News & Views on March 9th, 2010 4 Comments

An new report by the well respected and venerable Southern Poverty Law Center titled Rage on the Right: The Year in Hate and Extremism , highlights the new national pastime of “immigrant bashing.
From the report:
Hate groups stayed at record levels — almost 1,000 — despite the total collapse of the second largest neo-Nazi group in [...]

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Marcelo Lucero & Suffolk County New York – A year later

Hate Crimes on November 7th, 2009 No Comments

November 8, 2008. A young Ecuadorian, walking with a friend after a day of work, looking forward to a cold beer and TV with friends, is confronted by a gang of young punks, out for a night of “beaner bashing”.  Something they do for the “sport of it”, several times a week.
Jeffrey Conroy, Jordan Dasch, [...]

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Another hate crime perpetrated against a Mexican Immigrant

Hate Crimes on October 17th, 2009 No Comments

A Mexican day laborer is hospitalized with brain damage after being attacked somewhere in Williamsburg or Bushwick by three black men shouting “wetback.”
Mario Vera was riding his bike back home to Bushwick with groceries from a lower Manhattan food pantry when the young men hit him in the back of his head “with something hard” [...]

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Xenophobic Christian Rabid Right Wing Conservative Conservative Christian Activist wounds three, kills two Hispanic students

Featured, Headline on February 28th, 2009 Comments Off

High on Jesus, the hate speech of Michael Savage, Sena Hannity and others, Dannie Roy Baker went on a shooting spree at his apartment complex in Miramar Florida Thursday, wounding three, and killing two Chilean students in what is sparking outrage across Chile and other Latin American countries.
There isn’t much about this shocking crime in [...]

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