Hate Groups In America Essay

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California. Fifty-seven. Florida. Fifty. New York. Forty- four. New Jersey. Forty. Pennsylvania. Thirty- eight. To you, those might sound like numbers, but to others, they are warnings. Those are the numbers of active hate groups in the United States of America, according to state. Racism and hate are still pumping strong through the veins of America. Since the beginning, we have been taught that our very foundation of America was the overthrow of savages and heathens that needed to be civilized through Christianity. Conflict as a solution has been the motto of the United States since the seventeenth century, but it is believed to be resolved. That is the real problem. Seven hundred and eighty-four hate groups in America are still active and …show more content…

We have been the nation of immigrants since the very beginning but we haven’t always treated every citizen like it is their home. Each and every day we hear stories of black men and women being shot by white police officers, transgenders and homosexuals being terrorized or even shot by someone who deems it unfit, or white men and women being dragged on, being told their issues amount to nothing. We are all at fault for the way the world is at this very moment--for all the hate. Bullying has gone from the inside of schools and erupted to spread across all of the states. There is so much hate around us all and it needs to be eliminated. There should never be an American citizen who doesn’t feel welcome in their own home. America was discovered, it wasn’t populated with humans from the very beginning. Because of that, I think each and every one of us should think the next time we think that America is a nation filled with people of the same race with bothersome outsiders. It is my responsibility as an American to be tolerant of the others living in the United States with me. We are a diverse land, and that is what makes America so

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