The FBI just came out with a report on hate crimes in the U.S. in 2016. They cited 6,121 cases during the year, BUT those were the ones that were reported and rose to the legal level of being criminal incidents. How many more were there, I wonder. Far too many.
So why do people commit hate crimes to begin with? The FBI broke it down into three major categories: 57.5% were motivated by race, 21% by religion, and 17.7% by sexual orientation.
Are we so afraid of people of different races and religions and sexual orientations other than our own? Are they, simply because of those differences, out to get us? Of course not. So why are we out to get them?
Something to think about.