Hatred of outsiders has been a cyclical thing in America, and we seem to be in such a cycle now. Why is this happening? And why now? Haven’t we put hate - the bigotry that Bush denounced as a “blasphemy against the American creed” - behind us?
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Still, hearing a former leader of the free world concede that hate is having a moment? That’s a turning point - an admission that’s impossible to ignore. This is the second year in a row that hate crime numbers have increased, reversing the trend of the preceding 20 years.
Of the 1,583 targeted because of their religion, 55 percent were Jewish and 25 percent were Muslim. Of the 4,496 targeted because of their race, 50.2 percent were black or African-American. The FBI defines a hate crime as “a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.” In 2016 there were 6,100 reported instances of people targeted based on their race, religion, sexuality, disability or national origin, an increase of 300 over 2015, and like last year the overwhelming majority of those victims were targeted because of their race or religion. The most recent were released by the FBI just this week, the agency’s annual measure of the number of hate crimes reported in the United States the previous year. “I’m like, ‘Wait, there’s a bunch of white nationalists that go out in public and speak and do all this cool stuff and cool events? Hell yeah.’” “Recently I was kind of introduced to the concept of activism and rallies,” says Gunther Rice, a 22-year-old New Jersey native who attended that deadly event in Charlottesville but was not implicated in the attack on the woman. A rally to save a Confederate statue - and “unite the right” - that descended into violence, including the death of a young woman counterprotester. “We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism,” Bush lamented. Bush, the previous Republican president, was appearing on the political stage for one of the few times since leaving the White House nearly nine years ago – to announce that hate, of all things, was back. Trump: his barely veiled critiques of “conspiracy theories and outright fabrication” of “bullying and prejudice in our public life” of a “discourse degraded by casual cruelty.”īut less attention was paid to what might have been the most significant part of his speech. Most of the media focused on Bush’s “ implicit rebukes” of the man who currently occupies his old office, Donald J. Bush traveled to New York City to deliver a speech at an event dedicated to “The Spirit of Liberty: At Home, In the World.” And we spoke to four individuals caught up in the white nationalist movement, including a former Ku Klux Klan leader and a young ex-“social justice warrior,” whose stories are told here. To better understand the current spike in bigotry and hate in the United States, Yahoo News interviewed historians, sociologists, psychologists and experts who study hate groups.
(Photo: Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Neo-Nazis, alt-right and white supremacists encircle and chant at counterprotesters, Charlottesville, Va., Aug.
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