Clearly, not everyone is as comfortable with diversity as I am. According to the FBI, hate crimes in the United States went up 17% in 2017. That sad statistic is fueled by another; the number of anti-Semitic incidents rose 37% last year.
The current administration may have qualms about combating prejudice and xenophobia; we must not. We must help stop violence based upon ethnic background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Here are a couple of places to start. The latter, the Southern Poverty Law Center, offers a unique tool - a hate map ...
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