Day 5

The video "Journey to Hate Free" Is a very good video that I think everybody should watch. The video starts out talking about peoples deaths, and how they could be prevented. The first story was on A guy named Matthew killed by a hate crime. He was a well liked guy. The reasoning for his death that I got out of the video was he was a homosexual. I think people should just stay out of other peoples business and leave others alone. If they are not harming you why harm them whats the point?

There was a part in the video about a man named James. They found his body with know head. The body was to bad that they could not tell who it was. They had to identify him by his finger prints. What they did was they took him to a dark back road and beat him up than they tied hes ankles to a chain on to the back of a pick up truck, and dragged him for two miles and they were swerving. It looked like he was trying to protect himself my using his elbows. He died when was decapitate on the culvert, then they dumped his body in front of a black church.  Its another hate crime.  This guy was very talented in the musical area and he also was a grandfather. It is sad to see people so ful of hate.

The last story was on a Columbine shooting. There were two kids dressed in trench coachs going around shooting other kids. There are so many of these kinds of hate crimes it makes me sad. How can people be so hateful.

Towards the end of the vidoe it talkes about ways that could help prevent hate. The first places that we need to start are with parents. Now days both parents are working and have no time for children, but parnets need to make time. Second place that can help is schools, teach children that there are different people in this world with different beliefs and values. Another place could be reliogion, let your kids know it is okay for others to believe in something else.

We had some articles that we were supposed to read. And they are on hate crime, and sterotype. People are targeting the ones who are different than others in there own way. People who are disabled, or are homosexual, who are not like them. Maybe not normal in there eyes. I think hate is a learned trait. I think if someone is angry they need to find away to get rid of the anger by not hurting others in the process. What I do depending on the situation when I get angry, I will go for a walk and scream when there is no one around, or ill play video games. There are many ways that we can avoid these crimes if people would just stop and think or go get help before they act.