Americans know “racial profiling is both morally wrong and ineffective”, but they rather be safe than sorry (Chavez 563). Americans only get the idea that all middle easterners are terrorists because media has taken the role of portraying them in such a way to plants terror in Americans (Spurlock). People have gotten to the point of people being “singled out” because of looking certain way or because people around them feel uncomfortable (Chavez 569).
Hostility towards people of middle-eastern descent has also become apparent after the September 11th attacks conducted by an Islamic extremist group known as Al Qaeda. Many think America's borders, especially the southern border with Mexico, are a possible entry route for its enemies. However racist thinking among and between minority groups does occur, examples of this are conflicts between blacks and Koreans in the LA riots of 1992. Hostility is also apparent between African Americans and Latino immigrants, and the development of race orientated prison gangs is an example of
The third plane hit the western side of the Pentagon, and the fourth plane was targeted at the U.S. capitol, but it crashed into a nearby field. One reason for the attack was because of the U.S. foreign policy, Osama didn’t like how the U.S. support Israel. He thought that the U.S. foreign policy oppressed and killed Muslims. After the terrorist attack on September 11, many actions were made after this incident, like the Department of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, and the Transportation Security Administration. First, the
He witnessed a lot of racism growing up; seeing his house burned down and his father being killed. He had it rough growing up, and he was angry with all that had happened because of the racism in America, and he just wanted blacks to be able to defend themselves. But with how America was back then, whites would have been living in fear, because newspapers would be printed out saying “Blacks strike again” on the headline. King did not want blacks to retaliate because it just would have added to the fire. With everything that King stood for and how he was able to back them with such powerful speeches; it’s easy to say that King’s philosophy made more sense than Malcolm X’s
White men were also afraid of the different ideas these peoples were bringing. Most of these ideas were revolutionary, many of these people had came from oppressing countries and wanted freedom, but we saw those ideas as a danger for our government. Attitudes held toward Native Americans, Cubans, and Filipinos were different because for the Indians the U.S tried to “Americanize” and “civilize” them by separating them and out-lawing their tribes, and for the Cubans and Filipinos the U.S just simply denied their entrance to the country and did all they could to get them out of the country. All these attitudes were based on one thing only, the idea of white superiority. These ideas and attitudes held towards these people influenced actions taken during this period tremendously.
Many believe that the Iraq war was a fatal mistake and it actually heightened terrorist activities. So, Post 9/11, US had become a war mongering country in the name of fighting
Lemon continues by saying that “building a mosque at Park 51 is an extraordinary circumstance” and this is a very heated issue because many people lost their loved ones on 9/11. Patel mentioned that Muslim Americans were also amongst those who lost their loved ones but many Americans only seem to forget this and focus on the other religions victims. Incorporating what Lemon has said, it seem like he doesn’t want the mosque to be built next to ground zero because Muslim were apart of the 9/11 attack. Just because a small group of Muslims blew up the twin towers doesn’t mean that all Muslims are evil and heartless and they should be punished by refusal of constructing a mosque near ground
He had blamed Iraq to be holding terrorists, he had made America believe that Iraq had been under Saddam Hussein’s clutches and that whatever he had to say was law. President Bush had stated in his speech that, “Saddam Hussein is harboring terrorists and the instruments of terror, the instruments of terror of mass death and destruction, and he cannot be trusted. The risk is simply too great that he will use them or provide them to a terror network”. He had made Americans believe that Hussein was creating weapons and developing a nuclear weapon so that he could “blackmail” the world. President Bush had not trusted Saddam Hussein and he didn’t want rest of America to either.
The US’s outlook on terrorism has always been negative. However, after the attack on 9/11, our views on terrorism were taken to a whole other level. After 9/11, the US tightly restricted their policies on terrorism and the penalties involved with it. Prisons became stricter and sentences relating to terrorism became harsher. There were even separate prisons built in more isolated areas which were specifically designed for terrorism offenders.
What can be done to prevent hate crimes in society today? A hate crime is a crime committed by someone who is prejudice against a certain group or individual. These crimes can range from simple kindergarten name-calling to terrorist airplane attacks on the Twin Towers in New York or brutal planned school shootings, such as Columbine in Colorado. Hate exists in uncountable forms all over the country. In every part of the United States there are crimes being committed out of hate towards certain individuals or groups, but these crimes can be put to a halt with more strict laws against crime, public awareness, and world peace.