Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Anti-Semitic crimes alone rose more than 60% from 2018 to 2019 and represented the largest single category of targets, according to Ryu's data. The second-largest single category, anti-black crimes, increased 11.5% over the last year.

“We're seeing a leaner and meaner type of hate crime going on,” Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino, told NPR on Tuesday (November 12). “Homicides were up and crimes against persons were up and that's an important thing to look at.” According to the FBI data , anti-Black hate crimes continue to be the most frequent racism-fueled hate crimes, although these incidents dropped to a record low share in 2018. Anti-Latinx hate crimes increased from 427 in 2017 to 485 in 2018. Incidents of anti-Muslim hatred still made up the majority of anti-religion-fueled hate crimes, but decreased from 273 in 2017 to 188 in 2018. Anti-Sikh attacks, on the other hand, tripled between 2017 and 2018. Full Article: https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/post/hate-crime-violence-at-16-year-high-in-u-s-particularly-against-latinx-and-lgbtq-people