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Hate Crimes Increase Across Maine, Nation

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Hate Crimes Increase Across Maine, Nation

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The article talks about the increasing amount of hate crimes in america and specifically focuses on Maine. Data provided from the FBI shows that throughout the recent years hate crimes have been rising and the people of Maine should start speaking out against racism so it doesn't turn to violence. I agree that racism is still an issue in the US and that we should speak out against it to teach young people to not continue the acts of our ancestors.

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PORTLAND (WGME) -- The FBI released the 2016 data this month on hate crimes in the United States.

The data shows that hate crimes are increasing across the nation and here in Maine.

In the past two years, FBI data shows that Maine has recorded 78 hate crimes, and the Director of the New England division of the Anti-Defamation League says it's not going way.

"In Maine, since January, we've seen 5 KKK newspaper and leafleting drops in different communities," said Director Robert Trestan.

He says that Mainers need to speak out about racism happening in their communities, before the problem becomes too severe.

"It doesn't mean there are 100's of Klansmen in Maine, but what it does do is it sends a particular message: If you're a person of color, or you're jewish and you live in a neighborhood where the klan decides to distribute, what type of message does it send to you," he said.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Maine has three known hate groups. An LGBTQ hate group in Lewiston known as the "Maine Resistance", a chapter of the Klu Klux Klan in an unknown location, and the Hammerskins, or Crew 38, who keep their presence online.

According to the FBI data, America hasn't seen any less than 6,418 hate crime offenses in the past seven years. The highest amount came in 2010, with 7,699 hate crime offenses being reported by police agencies across the nation. Last year saw the second highest amount during that time period, and Trestan says that should be a cause for concern.

"We should be concerned about the overall increase in hate incidents, and really the dissemination of hatred," he says.

The latest data from the United States Census Bureau shows that Maine has the highest Caucasian population in the United States at 94.7 percent. The director of the ACLU of Maine says that makes it more vital for Mainers to stand up against racism.

"All communities, not just communities who are victimized by hate speech, but all communities, especially white communities, to speak out against racial violence and racial hate speech," says Director Zachary Heiden.

CBS 13 asked Heiden what Mainers can do to stand up to racism, and what legally can be done to stop groups from spreading hateful language. He says nothing can be done legally unless the words are considering threatening.

"People are allowed to engage in speech and they are allowed to believe things, but when that belief turns into action like threatening to harm people or actually harming people, the first amendment is no protection," he said.

Heiden says that groups like Crew 38, which have forums for making fun of other races on their website, can't be taken down, because they're just expressing their opinion. However, Heiden says that shouldn't stop people from speaking out against racism.

"The Government is restricted in terms of who it can censor, in term of the first amendment, but communities have an obligation," he said.

Trestan says that's because often the next step is violence.

"The next step is often harassment, confrontation, and violence. So it's important for us now to speak out and take steps when things are taking up at a lower level," he said.

To take a look at the FBI data on hate crimes, click here.

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Hate crimes increase across Maine, nation

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PORTLAND (WGME) -- The FBI released the 2016 data this month on hate crimes in the United States. The data shows that hate crimes are increasing across the nation and here in Maine.In the past two years, FBI data shows that Maine has recorded 78 hate crime

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The poem talks about how black family's today don't realize the type of life that their ancestors lived through. It also talks about how we should help each other work through our problems so your not alone. I cant really have an opinion on the first topic sense i'm not black, but i agree with the second topic on how we should help the people that really need it.

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BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors,
our children no longer give us honor.

BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared
kneeling in perilous undergrowth,
our children cannot find their way.

BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors,
our children cannot pray.

BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing,
our children cannot hear us crying.

BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering,
our befuddled children give birth to children
they neither want nor understand.

BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our
gates, an holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting,
'Regard the loveless'

Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our
lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate,
to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things,
knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters.

We ARE our brothers and sisters.

IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues,
and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation, we make this pledge.

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The Black Family Pledge Poem by Maya Angelou - Poem Hunter

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BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors,our children no longer give us honor. BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors clearedkneeling in perilous undergrowth,our children cannot find their way. BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors,our children cannot pray. BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing,our children cannot hear us crying.

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The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood

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The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood

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The text tells you about the different types of housing areas that make up Americas community's. It gave different definitions for each of the different colors. The green areas are thriving parts of the community that are being built up, blue areas are the areas that were already built up, yellow areas are the places that are going out of style for the modern buyer, and lastly red areas are the places where they have already gone through the yellow area stage and are going down hill. The article also talked about how black people were more common in the low class areas and white people were more common in the higher end areas.

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TNC focuses in on North Lawndale, a neighborhood in Chicago, to make his point. But it's a similar story across the country.

North Lawndale is an extreme portrait of the trends that ail black Chicago. Such is the magnitude of these ailments that it can be said that blacks and whites do not inhabit the same city. The average per capita income of Chicago's white neighborhoods is almost three times that of its black neighborhoods. When the Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson examined incarceration rates in Chicago in his 2012 book, Great American City, he found that a black neighborhood with one of the highest incarceration rates (West Garfield Park) had a rate more than 40 times as high as the white neighborhood with the highest rate (Clearing). "This is a staggering differential, even for community-level comparisons," Sampson writes. "A difference of kind, not degree." ...

Black people with upper-middle-class incomes do not generally live in upper-middle-class neighborhoods. Sharkey's research shows that black families making $100,000 typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making $30,000. "Blacks and whites inhabit such different neighborhoods," Sharkey writes, "that it is not possible to compare the economic outcomes of black and white children."

Even here in California, where sometimes we like to imagine maybe things were different.

A few years ago, I came across an academic project to take the old redlining maps and lay them over the cities as they are today in Google Maps. It was run by an interdisciplinary group out of the University of North Carolina. They created a site called T-RACES, or Testbed for for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces.

I stared and stared at the map of the East Bay because I could see the marks of this discrimination all over the city. My little neighborhood sits right next to a block of red, in a yellow strip, and near a swath of blue. It was an in-between zone, and it still feels that way. Go a few blocks west (downhill) and the neighborhoods are primarily black. Go a few blocks east (into the hills) and the neighborhoods are almost exclusively white.

T-RACES was meant to be a demonstration project, and it looks that way. The maps are difficult to navigate and just have a clunky feel. When I tweeted about them, a data artist named Josh Begley took it upon himself to recode the maps with new technology. And then-after Google broke the way he was doing it-he recoded the maps again for this post.

There are maps for the Bay, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno and Stockton. I've included Los Angeles here, too, but the rest are available at his site.

The point is: the racist policies TNC explores in Chicago were everywhere.

Here are the codes for the maps:

"Green areas are " hot spots"; they are not yet fully built up. In nearly all instances they are the new well planned sections of the city, and almost synonymous with the areas where good mortgage lenders with available funds are willing to make their maximum loans to be amortized over a 10-15-year period -- perhaps up to 75-80% of the appraisal. They are homogeneous; in demand as residential locations in "good time" or "bad"; hence on the upgrade".

"Blue areas, as a rule, are completely developed. They are like a 1935 automobile still good, but not what the people are buying today who can afford a new one. They are the neighborhoods where good mortgage lenders will have a tendency to hold loan commitments 10-15% under the limit."

"Yellow areas are characterized by age, obsolescence, and change of style; expiring restrictions or lack of them; infiltration of a lower grade population; the presence of influences which increase sales resistance such as inadequate transportation, insufficient utilities, perhaps heavy tax burdens, poor maintenance of homes, etc. "Jerry" built areas are included, as well as neighborhoods lacking homogeneity. Generally, these areas have reached the transition period. Good mortgage lenders are more conservative in the Yellow areas and hold loan commitments under the lending ratio for the Green and Blue areas.

"Red areas represent those neighborhoods in which the things that are now taking place in the Yellow neighborhoods, have already happened. They are characterized by detrimental influences in a pronounced degree, undesirable population or infiltration of it. Low percentage of home ownership, very poor maintenance and often vandalism prevail. Unstable incomes of the people and difficult collections are usually prevalent. The areas are broader than the so-called slum districts. Some mortgage lenders may refuse to make loans in these neighborhoods and other will lend only on a conservative basis."

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The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood

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TNC focuses in on North Lawndale, a neighborhood in Chicago, to make his point. But it's a similar story across the country. North Lawndale is an extreme portrait of the trends that ail black Chicago. Such is the magnitude of these ailments that it can be said that blacks and whites do not inhabit the same city.

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The N-Word: An Interactive Project to Explore a Singular Word 

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The N-Word: An Interactive Project to Explore a Singular Word 

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The video that was chosen for me talked about the use of the n word in comedy and how it may not be acceptable in certain situations. I somewhat agree with their comments on the topic on how its ok if you're not using it in a derogatory manor or as a way of offending someone.

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n-word; donte stallworth; neal brennan; dave chappelle show; nfl; national football leagues bans nword; nfl bans the nword; nigger; nigga; nigger vs nigga; kkk; ku klux klan; jay z; oprah;

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The n-word: An interactive project exploring a singular word

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After the National Football League made the controversial decision to ban the n-word on the field this year, a team of Washington Post journalists explored the history of the word, its evolution and its place in American vernacular today.

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The text gives a insight on why the book "the adventures of Huckleberry Finn" should be continued to be tought in Americas classrooms. I agree with their argument that people shouldn't try to sensor are past and that kids in America shouldn't learn a cleaned up version of some of the worst times in our society.

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