Violence based on racial. ethnic. religious. and sexual stereotypes is still too often a disturbing reality here in America. The violent murders at Howard Beach. NY. the Ku Klux Klan rally in Forsyth County. GA. the Ethiopian immigrant who was beaten to death with a baseball bat in the State of Washington. and the synagogue that was desecrated with swastikas in Marblehead. in my own State of Massachusettsprovide an unpleasant reminder of this fact. More disturbing. these examples are only a sampling of the type of crimes directed toward minorities across the United States. For example. in 1988. there were 1.281 documented incidents of antiSemitic bias crime. an Increase of 41 percent since 1986.
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