Aug. 15, 2019
By Joni Ashbrook
Since the El Paso shooter that targeted Mexicans, and a man stopped by the FBI from shooting up a gay bar and firebombing a synagogue, I can’t stop thinking how terrifying it must be to be Jewish, or a person of color or part of the LGBTQ community in America today.
It must add to their terror that people deny that this horror is happening. For instance, people may believe Fox News host Tucker Carlson that white supremacy “is a hoax.” I wish it was a hoax, but that’s not what the Anti-Defamation League says. It found white supremacist murders in the U.S. “more than doubled in 2017,” with far-right extremist groups and white supremacists “responsible for 59% of all extremist-related fatalities in the U.S. in 2017.”
Also, FBI Director Christopher Wray recently said they’ve made about 100 domestic terrorism-related arrests since October, and the majority were tied to white supremacy.
With all the recent discussions about racism, I remembered an incident that happened over 30 years ago during my student teaching stint.
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