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Hatewatch

Here, I will monitor, evaluate, and analyze websites that relate to my issue.

Racist Cartoons
This website features racist cartoons that target minority races. The cartoons are drawn in a way which exemplifies a distinction characteristic of the race—whether the distinction is correct or not. Also, the site is run by white supremacists. They explicitly state that “Each WAR (insurgent) associate serves the Idea that what's good for the White European Race is the highest virtue. Whatever is bad for the White European Race is the ultimate Evil.” Without drawing any casual links or explanation whatsoever, this site does not provide adequate support for advancing its main goal of white supremacy.

Sean Bell Rally: Kill the Cops Who Kill Our Kids
Maliki Shabazz, the chairman of the New Black Panther Party, a militant African American organization, threatens the police in a rally.  As a response to the death of Sean Bell, a 23 year old black man who was shot to death by the police, the New Black Panthers responded by sending the police a message of “if you kill us, we will kill you.” The chairman promotes racial terrorism to retaliate for the death of a black man. Without any background information, and misinterpreting the situation as a whole, the chairman advocates violence. The causality of the response was flawed—events need to be taken in context of the larger picture.  Shabazz’s actions represent the hate, racial tension, and violence that spurs from the segregation argument.

KKK Rallies Around Illegal Immigration Issue
Ron Edwards, the Imperial Wizard of the KKK, has recently begun accepting new members, including Nazi and skinheads to combat the entry of illegal immigrants into the United States.  Edwards claims that “Because the government has taken rights away from the American citizens who have worked here, bled here, and their families have been here for generations. Now they have these illegals that we can guard every border in the country but our own. They just run across the border, take our jobs." The topic of illegal immigration is still being debated, but Edwards does not logically form his argument. Assumptions should not be the basis for an argument, so therefore, Edwards demonstrates faulty causality. Also, Edwards advocates violence in solving the immigrant problem, which is an example of violence as the means to achieve a racist end.

McKenzie Man Gets 30 Years for Bomb Plotting
White supremacist Demetrius "Van" Crocker tried to purchase what he thought was nerve gas from two undercover government agents.  His hate of the government and other races lead him to plot a bombing. This occurrence serves as an example of racial tensions and racism leading to violence.


 
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