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Ice on Immigration:
Dealing with the hate
By L. Patricia Ice, Featured
Columnist
Question: There seems to be a lot of controversy and hate
surrounding the immigration debate in the US. What can immigrants,
immigrant advocacy groups and other minority groups do to alleviate the
hate speech and messages that surface in conversation, the media, and
beyond?
Answer: People of African descent and other minority groups
have endured vicious hate speech and actions ever since they came to
American shores. Hate speech in conversations and the media have
escalated, however, against recent immigrants, especially Mexicans and
other Latin Americans.
For years the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has tracked hate
groups targeting African-Americans and others, and has had promoted
tolerance. There are very good materials on the following SPLC websites
regarding tolerance:
http://www.splcenter.org/center/tt/teach.jsp and hate groups:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intpro.jsp.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in 1913 “to stop the
defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment
to all.” Now one of the nation’s premier civil rights/human relations
agencies, the ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends
democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all. The ADL has an
excellent web site that can assist individuals with combating hate:
http://www.adl.org/combating_hate/.
More recently the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), one of our
nation's largest Latino civil rights organizations, has developed
materials to provide information on hate groups, the code words they use
and how often they appear in the media. They also have information
about what individuals and organizations can do to take action. You can
find NCLR anti-hate materials at the following web site in English and
Spanish:
http://www.wecanstopthehate.org/.
We must all participate in the fight against hate speech and hate
actions against all groups of people. Each individual can start this
process himself.
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