GENOCIDE & HATE

HATE GROUPS Form of a gang Feel “Superior” Seek to exclude and harm

Hate Groups Target Societies . . . With a diverse Population With a struggling economy With a lack of connectedness With an insider/outsider mentality

Hate Groups Count On . . . A visible presence of hate The silence of good people

Hate Groups Offer . . . Protection Prestige Scapegoat Family Justification

SILENCE Welcome Mat For Hate “All that is necessary for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke~

Active Hate Groups in U.S. 2009 932 Known Groups 28 in Pennsylvania 187 Ku Klux Klan 161 Neo-Nazi 132 White Nationalist 122 Racist Skinhead 121 Black Separatist

GENOCIDES Mao Ze-Dong (China) 49 – 78 million Stalin (Russia & Ukraine) 23 million Hitler (Holocaust) 12 million Armenia 1.2 million Pol Pot (Cambodia) 1.7 million Kim Il Sung (Korea) 1.6 million Ethiopia 1. 5 million Biafra 1 million Rwanda 800,000 +

21st Century Genocide DARFUR – 2003 – present 400,000 dead 2.5 million displaced 100 die every month

Human life is the first casualty of genocide, whether it be in Rwanda, in Sudan, or in Europe some 60 years ago. But also at stake is our humanity, for a fundamental tenant of human decency is that we care for those around us, that we confront suffering and abuse, that we protect the vulnerable. ~ John Podesta ~