Hate Must Stop

Stop the hate.

Hate must stop now!!!

I'm sick of it and I know I'm not the only one! 

My sister had a friend over recently and he is African American; the nicest man you could ever meet and funny as heck.  After he left, another person in the park commented about him having been here and actually used the “N” word.  He was angry because a man of a different color had chosen to come into this trailer park.  I was disgusted by this and I am fed up with all the HATE.  People are hating Jewish people, African Americans, Native Americans, poor people, elderly, Mormons, people who are fans of the wrong football team, and the list goes on.  It seems that people simply WANT to find something to hate in another person.   Imagine if you will that suddenly everyone is the same color.  Everywhere you walk ALL people are purple (why not?  I like purple), all people are the same age, and all people are straight.  I’m willing to bet that people will still find reasons to hate one another.  Perhaps it will be because they are wearing the wrong designer jeans, or they’re not styling their hair the way everyone else is, or they’re riding the wrong type of motorcycle.  When is the hate going to end and when are we going to actually advance as a human race?

Here are just a few things I found.  I am hoping to open your eyes to the hate that happens every single day against men, women, and even children due to peoples’ apparent inability to extinguish “HATE.”

Hate mob Trip Messick

Police tracked down and arrested 6 people, they say, beat a North Carolina man outside an Applebee's on March 17th.
Police arrested Teryn Robinson, Tray Holland, Justin Alexander, Derick Williams, Kino Jones and Montrez Jones. All of the suspects face a charge of assault and battery by a mob. They were booked into the Oconee County Detention Center.
Since the investigation showed that racial factors contributed to the incident, police sent a copy of the case to the FBI to determine if the case should be pursued as a hate crime under federal law.
Police say at this time, the case will remain under active investigation and they will proceed with the state level charges.

 3 White Supremacists Found Guilty of Beating Black Man at Bus Stop News one staff

Charles Cannon, 26, Michael McLaughlin, 41, and Brian Kerstetter, 32, were all convicted of a hate crime today by a federal grand jury for assault of a 29-year-old Black man, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
The jury decided that their attack of the victim at a bus stop in downtown Houston violated the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act enacted in October 2009.
When you hear that a black man was savagely beaten by some white kids, then run over by their truck, you don't want to think it happened here in America. This generation of teens is supposed to be more accepting, more open. These sorts of racially-motivated horrors are supposed to be just a memory, a tragic one, but a blast from the past all the same.
But the teenagers who are accused of getting drunk, then jumping in their truck with plans to go "f--k with a ni---r" are Americans alright. Eighteen-year-old Deryl Dedmon lives in Brandon, Mississippi. And it was just this past June that cops allege he led the vicious attack that claimed the life of James Anderson, a black auto plant worker.
The whole thing -- from Anderson being beaten to his death as he was run down in the parking lot -- was caught on video. Now Dedmon faces murder charges, and an accomplice, John Aaron Rice, also 18, has been charged with simple assault for the part he allegedly played in Anderson's death. Watching the video is hard. The hate is palpable. A kid actually screams "white power":

Another White Man Critically Beaten: 20 Black Racist Thugs Assaulted Him Citing “Justice For Trayvon” Scott Baker

 

Mobile police need your help to catch a mob that beat Matthew Owens so badly that he’s in critical condition.
According to police, Owens fussed at some kids playing basketball in the middle of Delmar Drive about 8:30 Saturday night. They say the kids left and a group of adults returned, armed with everything but the kitchen sink.
Police tell News 5 the suspects used chairs, pipes and paint cans to beat Owens.
Owens’ sister, Ashley Parker, saw the attack. “It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed.” Parker says 20 people, all African American, attacked her brother on the front porch of his home, using “brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on.”
What Parker says happened next could make the fallout from the brutal beating even worse. As the attackers walked away, leaving Owen bleeding on the ground, Parker says one of them said “Now thats justice for Trayvon.”
A witness who wants to remain anonymous describes what he says he heard at his front door Saturday night, on Delmar Drive. ”I just kept hearing him screaming, ‘Man, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, man don’t do this,’ ” he recalls.
On the other side of that door was Matthew Owen, who, police and neighbors say, was being beaten by a group of people. The weapons? Bricks, bats, even a paint can.
At first, when he heard his friend at the door, the man thought it was a joke. ”Then I saw about 10 to 15 people from little kids and women with dresses to adult men, just flooding onto the property, surrounding the car, hollering and screaming,” he says. “And then I heard Matthew saying, ‘ I’m sorry, man, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’ And then, the next thing, before I could get to the door, because we have it all deadbolted and everything, and before I could get it open, I heard all the beating and banging.”
Even family and friends of Matthew Owens admit there was some tension on this street before Saturday night’s event. And they say a lot of this has to do with basketball. Relatives of the victim, who live on the street, say local kids often block Delmar Drive when they play basketball. They say it’s lead to some confrontations. Racial comments from both sides may have made the confrontations more toxic.

Jewish schoolboy, 12, beaten up in latest anti-Semitic attack to hit France... as school where Islamic terrorist Merah killed four receives hate mail  Peter allen

A Jewish schoolboy was punched in the back of the head and beaten up in the latest anti-Semitic attack to hit France.

The 12-year-old was walking near his Jewish school in southeastern Paris yesterday when a gang set up on him, calling him a 'dirty little Jew'.

It came as it emerged the Jewish school where Islamic terrorist Mohammed Merah, 23, gunned down four people has received hate messages warning: 'This is only the beginning'.

Iraqi Woman Beaten to Death in California, Hate Crime Suspected Olivia Katrandjian

ABC News

A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying “go back to your country,” has died and police are investigating her death as a possible a hate crime.

Shaima Alawadi’s  17-year-old daughter found her unconscious on the dining room floor of her home Wednesday. She was taken to the hospital and put on life support, but she was taken off life around 3 p.m. Saturday.

“Our understanding is that she was beaten and she was hit with some kind of a tool about 8 times in the head. She was knocked on the floor and was found in a pool of blood,” said Hanif Mohebi, the director of the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Alawadi was a 32-year-old mother of five children, ranging in age from eight to 17.

“A week ago they left a letter saying this is our country not yours you terrorist, and so my mom ignored that thinking it was just kids playing a prank,” Alawadi’s daughter, Fatima Al Himidi, told ABC News affiliate KGTV. “But the day they hit her, they left another note again, and it said the same thing.”

Hispanic boy, 15, beaten in hate-crime attack as he walked home from school  Associated press

Seven black teenagers were arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime after attacking a 15-year-old Hispanic boy as he walked home from school in Southern California.

I’m reading about all of these hate crimes, and I feel nothing but disgust and sadness.  It is said that we should learn from our past, but for many, all they do is live in it and embrace the hate that keeps us fighting against one another.  We still have not learned to accept one another for our differences, we have not learned to let go of the past and move forward toward a brighter future where everyone cares for one another regardless of race, age, religion, etc.  Who are we to hate someone simply because of the color or their skin, and who are we to judge those for whom they choose to love in this world or for what religion they place close to their hearts.  Should the people of this world apologize for having the audacity to grow old, or to be born with a different color of skin, or to love a different God than others choose to love, or to be of limited means?  No one should apologize for who they are or who they are not. 

If we are to STOP hate crimes then we ALL must stop HATE, because from where I’m sitting it looks as if we are letting evil win.  I think it’s high time we defeat it.