The Connection
Summer 2000 Issue
Attorney
General Commission on Hate Crime Hosts Community Forums
The Attorney General Civil Rights Commission has completed 8 of the 21 community forums on hate crimes it is holding in communities throughout California.
Broadening
Hate Violence Work
Hate crime
legislation is relatively new. Most laws relating to hate
crimes were passed in the last 15 years. Police, school, and
community responses are still being formulated and instituted.
Currently, most hate crime and hate violence research is directed
around the perpetrator and the victim. Many of the best known
studies on hate crimes are about the characteristics of the perpetrator,
and studies of the victim.
CAHRO
CEO Mentoring Project with TEC
The business community is viewed
as the enemy by many in the civil rights movement, and there is some historical basis for these feelings. Yet in Orange County we have found some business people who not only believe as we do in justice for all
people, but who are willing to give their time, talents and resources to support those beliefs.
The
Concept of ''Hate Crime'' Requires Rethinking
We
can all agree that crimes motivated by hatred are extremely troubling.
And I will continue to join with my colleagues and others to work
toward eliminating the racism and bigotry that causes some in our
society to victimize others because of skin color, sexual orientation
or any other "differences." However, I have
become increasingly troubled over the orthodox thinking which separates
out particular crimes from others of a similar type and then defines
them as "hate crimes."
In
Defense of Hate Crime
Laws
The argument that people who commit hate crimes are not deterred by hate crime laws is undoubtedly true. Obviously, anyone who commits a crime is not deterred by the
penalties for that crime, but would anyone argue that since laws against robbery do not stop robberies they should be repealed?
The Wen
Ho Lee Case and Its Impact on Intergroup Relations
The
case of Wen Ho Lee, the Asian American nuclear scientist from Los
Alamos National Laboratory(LANL) who was accused of spying for China
and later charged with the lesser offense of mishandling classified
information has fueled the debate and struggle over the issue of
racial profiling and should be of concern to those working on intergroup
relations.
Youth Force
Aims to Build a Youth Movement
This
past election saw the rise of Youth Force, a coalition of near forty
youth organizations in the Bay Area who took to the streets and
schools, and held cultural performances and shows to protest Proposition
21 and the criminalization of youth and youth culture.
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