African-American Hate Crimes

    In America there has always been animosity towards African-Americans ever since slavery and America had become more tolerant of accepting African-Americans in the early 1970s.  However, African-Americans still experience hate crimes today.  For instance there is still racism prevalent on universities.  This is ironic, because in college you are supposed to learn to interact with a diverse population.
     So I ask why is there still a lot of hate on universities today? "They found that racism is still rampant on college campuses but that racism has undergone a transformation since the civil rights era and the advent of more racially integrated higher education" (Anonymous,2007,p.90).  This suprised me, because I thought that in the society we are in today we would not still be stuck in this ignorant mind.  There was an incident where a African-American female who mixed with Korean was attacked.  "Daisy Lundy, a student of African American and Korean background, reported being assaulted early on the morning of Feb. 27 by a heavyset White male who told her, "No one wants a nigger to be president." " (Hamilton, p.12,2003).  Daisy had been runnng for president of her student council at University of Virginia.  She was assaulted by the male who snuck behind her while she was in the car searching for her cell, where he repeatedly beat her head in the steering wheel. 
      This is an atrocity that society is still stuck in the past on our acceptance of different races especially when America is such a big melting pot as it is.  There is said to be a "material threat that minority proportions pose to the majority group in environments with limited political and economic resources" (Lyons, p.3,2008).  This is not an excuse, but it does explain the tension that can occur between minorities and whites.  It is just how long will we allow our intolerance of different races affect the ethical justice of America.


References:

The persistence of racism among white college students. (2007). The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, (56), 90.

Hamilton, K. (2003). Diverse issues in higher education. UVA student victim of campus hate crime, 20(3), 12.

Lyons, C. (2008). Defending turf: racial demographics and hate crime against blacks and whites. Social Forces, 87(1), 3.