Hate in America

The shameful truth is that there's indeed white supremacists, homophobic psychopaths etc. in the world and the US. This documentary covers a few cases of so called "hate crimes". It rightly points out that there are groups such as white supremacists who are prone to them This is however, a unfortunate fact of life. Some will always find a group to blame/hate.

What this SPLC hype doesn't say is many of the SPLC's "900 hate groups" in the US aren't. Many are law abiding and peaceful yet are STEREOTYPED by the SPLC as violent extremists simply because of the actions of rare psychopaths that in truth are as likely to wind up in government or law enforcement as in a militia. For the SPLC and friends to stereotype people in this way makes them as big a "hate group" as any. Their materials encourage police to hyperventilate and treat patriots as violent simply for knowing the law or their rights under it.

It's wrong to stereotype blacks as thieves, postal workers as unstable shooters, or "sovereign citizens" and "constitutionalists" as "hate groups". There aren't that many "hate groups". Drop the stereotypes and just treat criminals like criminals and law abiding citizens as innocent until proved guilty.

This show should just be renamed to "White Hate in America"....or "White People are Evil," because the only hate addressed in this show is the hate from backwoods White people who in no way represent the overwhelming majority of White people in America. They never show any of the hate that comes from other ethnic/religious groups in America, and they are most DEFINITELY out there. I guess wanting to "kill white cracker babies", Christians, Jews, Women, and etc. isn't important unless it can somehow be tied back to white people being the racist. As a black woman who was born and raised in North Carolina the most racist and intolerant people I've dealt with have been blacks - not whites. So yeah, screw this show and it's one sided agenda to make average everyday non-racist white folks feel horrible about themselves and guilty for some crap they had nothing to do with, and more importantly - screw this show for giving black people the false impression that they should be more worried about some random white racist killing them then being beaten or shot to death in the Wild Wild West that is the streets in black neighborhoods. The few black friends I've known who were murdered where murdered by another black man over material goods or bruised egos.....not by some racist KKK guy. -_-

Shines a small light on extreme modern racism in America. Its basically something you would see on t.v. like Discover or History Channel It only runs around 43mins or so. It could have been more informative and investigated more groups that you typically do not hear about.

Do not pay attention to the previous reviews especially the ignorant one with the title "Whitey Did It! - It's All You Need to Know Basically" I can tell you that is complete bull and also the majority of hate crimes are committed by the majority who are whites. That is just common sense and a hard reality Just watch for yourself and formulate your own opinion.

Ignore the reviewers below with the knee jerk reaction to whites being painted as the bad guys. First, the documentary was never meant as a comprehensive history lesson on hate groups in America. It's a documentary focusing on the Southern Poverty Law Center and the cases they specifically took on against mainly white supremacist groups. Second, those reviewers seem to forget that the crusaders behind the SPLC who took down these hate groups were also white. That said, it is a good history lesson on how these lawyers brought these hate groups to their knees using civil law instead of relying on the criminal courts. It is not a meant to show every hate group or criminal act done by hate groups in America. Sadly, there is no way you can cover that in an one hour documentary.

........ and it doesn't matter who does it .... it's still hate!

This is a fine look into present and past acts of hate against others in the land of the free -- America. You never know when or where or by who, hate will rise to the surface and cause many innocents to suffer. This documentary looks into victims who suffered and the perpetrators that targeted their hate on the victims.

I only wish the producers and writers had spent some of the show looking into the root cause of hate or rather it's foundations. So often hate is found coming from the pulpit in every religion on earth! Here is the root and the fertilizer of hate. And I bet everyone who committed these acts of hate had religion in their background!!