By muymuy (26, F, CA)
March 21
International Day for the Elimination of Racism
1950
The Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified into one of three categories: white, black, or colored. (of mixed descent)
April 4, 1968
Black civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
1954-1975
During the Vietnam War, soldiers referred to the Vietnamese as "gooks," "dinks" and "slant eyes."
1982
Chinese-American Vincent Chin was celebrating his upcoming wedding when he got in an argument with Ron Ebens, a supervisor at Chrysler Motors. According to witnesses, Ebens hurled ethnic insults at Chin, blaming him for the loss of jobs in the then-depressed American auto industry. Pursuing Chin outside, Ebens, aided by his stepson Mike Nitz, bludgeoned the young man to death with a baseball bat. All the assailants received were three years probation and a $3,000 fine.
1989
Spike Lee’s "Do the Right Thing," a film about racial tensions between Italian and African Americans, is released.
4,468
Number of racial hate crime incidents of reported to the police in 1998. The highest number was reported by African-Americans: 2,901.
John Singleton directs movies dealing with race relations such as "Higher Learning" and "Rosewood" and "Boyz n the Hood."
African-Americans aged 12 and up are the most victimized group in America. 41.7 over 1,000 of them are victims of violent crimes, compared with whites (36.3 over 1,000).
52.9 percent
Amount of which were racially motivated crimes accounted for of the 7,649 hate crime incidents reported in 2004.
Xenophobia
The fear of foreigners, or people who are different.
In some southern states in America, it is still socially-accepted to use the N word.
Sources:
http://www.fbi.gov
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096440/
http://www.soundvision.com/
http://www.splcenter.org
http://www.tolerance.org
• Track Hate Groups In Your Area And Throughout The United States
• Facts About US Hate Groups
