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Across the United States in 2007 and 2008, people motivated by prejudice acted violently to hurt individuals, to damage homes and personal property, and to attack places of worship, cemeteries, community centers, and schools.
In the latest report on hate crime in 2006, the FBI identified 7,722 incidents—a 7.8 percent rise from the documented 7,163 crimes in 2005.There was a 9.5 percent rise in hate crime victims, from 8,804 in 2005 to 9,642 in 2006. These incidents were reported by 2,105 police agencies across the country, out of 17,500 agencies participating in the UCR program.
The 2006 report found that 56 percent of hate crime victims—5,449 people—were “victims of hate crimes against persons,” in contrast to 59 percent in 2005 (5,190 people)—indicating no major change in the levels of personal violence reported. In 2006, much in keeping with past years, 43.2 percent were victimized by crimes against property; 81 percent of the latter were “acts of damage/destruction/vandalism.”
Of the 7,722 single-bias incidents reported to the FBI in 2006, 51.8 percent were motivated by a racial bias, 18.9 percent by a religious bias, 15.5 percent by a sexual orientation bias, 12.7 percent by an ethnicity/national origin bias, and 1 percent by a bias against disability. Hate Crime in California
According to the state of California’s annual hate crime report for 2007, hate crime incidents rose 9.2 percent, from 1,306 in 2006 to 1,426 in 2007. The 1,426 incidents represented 1,931 offenses, with violent crimes increasing by 19.9 percent from 1,044 in 2006 to 1,252 in 2007. There were 679 property crimes in 2007. The report also provides data on hate crime incidents referred to prosecutors (443), and the outcome of these referrals—including criminal cases filed, cases filed as hate crimes, and the progress and outcome of hate crime cases.
The largest number of bias incidents was under the category “anti- race/ethnicity/national origin,” with 932 incidents or 65.4 percent of the total. Within this category there were 498 incidents of “antiblack” bias and 160 of “anti-Hispanic” bias. Antiblack hate crimes continued to be the largest category by bias motivation, accounting for at least 26 percent of all hate crime offenses annually since 1998, and over 30 percent in 2007. Antiblack hate crime offenses rose 15.6 percent, from 588 in 2006 to 680 in 2007. Anti-Hispanic offenses increased over 7 percent, from 218 in 2006 to 234.
The second largest number of incidents and offenses was motivated by sexual orientation bias, with a rise to 263 incidents, or 18.4 percent of the total. This represented an increase of 6.9 percent, from 246 in 2006 to 263 in 2007. Religious bias accounted for 203 incidents, or 14.2 percent of the total, of which 134 (66 percent) were anti-Jewish, 13 (6.4 percent) anti-Islamic, and 11 (5.4 percent) anti-Protestant. The data also covered 25 incidents of gender-bias crimes, of which 23 were motivated by antitransgender bias. There were 3 antidisability bias incidents recorded.
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I would have to go with something not on the list and say transgendered people. While they are a very small group, they pretty much are discriminated against by almost everyone. I also think it's a hard question to gauge. The gay and lesbian community has faced discrimination from religious groups and their campaigning against gay and lesbian rights and many states offer no protections against discrimination for LGBT people. But being gay myself (although having lived in medium to larger cities my whole life) I never have really felt discriminated against on a personal level...unliked sure, but not discriminated against. Whereas people in the african american community might see discrimination on a smaller, more personal level every day.
Unfortunately, although African-Americans have been in this country longer than almost any other group here, they still receive the brunt of racism and discrimination in this country, not only from many multi-generational Americans but also from newly-arrived immigrants.
I agree with crisp. African Americans have been pretty much since the beggining of this country and yet they still get alot of hate. European immigrants who came here in the late 1800's and early 1900's were competing for jobs with A-As and that fueld the competiton. Now adays people from overseas precieve blacks to be criminal and all the above because of what they see in movie, shows,and even music videos and alot of immigrants come here with those prejudices. Ironically African americans today are in the same boat as europeans were in the early 1900's. Europeans were losing jobs to blacks beacuse blacks back then were willing to work for less, HOWWWEVER...illegal immigrants are the one who are willing to work for chop change and African Americans are the ones losing jobs. And whats even more ironic is that the people who are hiring illegals probably have grandparents or even parents who had to compete with blacks for jobs back in the day. As a result, you can agree or not, there are some older europeans who still have mixed feelings about blacks and some of them pass it on to there children. I'm not saying they are necessarily RACIST but they still harbor mixed feelings because they probably couldn't get a job because A-A's were willing to recieve less money back in their time. And this is also one of the reasons why there's some tension between blacks and latinos, ESPECIALLY on the west coast.
^ things are different in the south though. Whites and blacks in the south south have been living side-by-side for hundreds of years and there is still plenty of tension but hispanics are begining to see more prejudice in the south from both blacks and whites. The reason is because...well.. the south is still mostly conservative and latinos in the south(except for florida and texas) tend to be illegal. For example in North Carolina there are nearly 600,000 latinos and almost400,000 are illegal. That gives latinos in the state(rural areas mostly) a bad name and alot of hispanics who aren't here ilegally are are presumed to be illegal immigrants. It's not fair but it is what it is. Plus the politicians are trying hard to get rid of illegal immirants where as in cities up north like NYC, chicago, and D.C. the local politicians are for illegal immigrant rights. And thats where santuary cities come in to play.
Note: From here the level of overt and covert discrimination drops significantly.
Muslims
Immigrants in general
It's impossible to say that overweight people are a discriminated against protected group, they make up a pretty solid majority of the nation.
The worst victims of overt discrimination: Gays(The only group to have their very pathology openly called into question), followed by Mexicans(Allowed to be openly verbally assaulted through thinly veiled immigration rants) then Blacks(There are a good amount of people who question the inherent intelligence and criminality of Blacks, but they typically aren't allowed to do that except in the company of people who agree with them).
The worst victims of institutionalized discrimination: Mexicans(I would say Gays, but recent stories show that many legal Americans have been picked up and deported just for being Hispanic, mainly Mexican.), followed by Gays and Blacks(depends on the institution, banks and real estate agencies are known for malicious discrimination against blacks, universities aren't).
The worst victims of covert discrimination: Blacks(It's no longer consider acceptable to hate Black people in the open), followed by Mexicans(It's okay to hate Mexicans in the form of anti-illegal sentiment) and Gays(Gays can be ranted against in the open, so there is no need for covert discrimination).
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