Summary
Hate crimes are meant to cause fear in an entire group or class of people and, in some cases, they result in extra jail time for those convicted. Though civil rights leaders demand these crimes be treated as hate crimes, the Justice Department hasn't been listening. The department prosecuted just 22 people with hate crimes last year, a 71 percent decline from 10 years ago.
John Tanner, who heads the Justice Department's voting section, recently made several racist comments, in defense of the law that would require photos to have a photo ID. Tanner suggested, among other things, that Black people would already have an ID, because they use it when they go to check cashing stores. Tanner's comments undermine the generations of work the Justice Department has done to protect the civil rights of African Americans. Anything short of his full dismissal is a slap in the face of the legacy of the civil rights movement.See the full content of this document
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Enough Is Enough!
Over the last several months, a number of incidents have occurred in this country, sending waves of shock, concern and fear through Africa...
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