HERE'S HOW YOU CAN DENOUNCE HATE AND RACISM

http://www.univision.com/univision-news/heres-how-you-can-denounce-hate-and-racism

SUMMARY:

This news was published on the 7^th of December by Jessica Weiss and it is about the progressive increase in both 2016 and 2017 of incidents of intolerance. So, in this news, the writer explain how to act in front of situations in which you feel victim of a hate attack and intolerance.

First of all, the writer presents that the 2016 election in the United States has caused a surge in hate-fueled harassment, intimidation and assaults across the country, mostly involving minorities. Specially, more than 800 such “election-related” episodes, mostly anti-black and anti-immigrant, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that combats hate.

In second place, the writer explains that some organizations, like SPLC, encourage people to report incidents. Right after, she also gives options to those who experience hate, since just as incidents of violence are a crime, hate incidents aren't it.

Then, the Weiss cites some authors who talk about these cases. Specifically cites David Barkey, Leader of an anti-racism organization, who says that the minimum act of violence that can be shown by a person must be punished, with the purpose of not increasing these acts of violence, because every incident of hate is important, and should be reported.

Finally, she comments that is so important that people share her history and his anecdotes because all of these are important. As Ryan Lenz, from the SPLC organization, says: “is not a time when people should be silent about what they’re experiencing”.

MY OPINION:

I totally agree with the writer of this news and with all this members of the organizations which combats hate. Nowadays the number of attacks on racism and hatred of minorities has increased enormously.

In my point of view, this increase of hatred towards other people is caused by the great crisis that many countries have been through and are passing through. But innocent people always pay, because the blame for these attacks of hatred against other people is caused by the political parties that govern today.

That’s why I want to send a message to all of those who attack innocent people: all of us with reasoning and without using violence we can fix this world, a world which are gradually destabilizing more.

WORDS I DIDN’T KNOW:

1. entitled
2. instead
3. epithet