According to the article by CNN, America still tends to struggle with the issue of racism. Although in the past century several human rights and struggles for equality among classes and races have occurred, it still tends to be in the early developing ages when it comes to racism. White supremacists, still tend to invest their time on hate and plenty of propaganda on white (Aryan) power that dominates the majority of U.S. Unfortunately, as seen in this article, many lives (innocent) tend to be sacrificed for an expired belief (Nazism) that has left it dark spot on history 7 decades ago. I belief that stronger legislation on these hate crimes will lower the level of racism across U.S., but that seems a long way ahead.
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This article was quite interesting to me because it dealt with several issues in criminology. There was the issue of surveillance, which was a necessary evil in this case, it allowed the perpetrators to get caught. I also found it interesting that this crime happened in Mississippi, which according to the first documentary we watched about post mortem facilities, had one of the most rudimentary and ineffective Coroner’s offices in the country. Mississippi also has a large number of racially motivated crimes, which are frequently covered up by the mistakes made by the Coroner’s office. I think that it is very unlikely that stronger legislation on hate crimes could potentially lower the number of hate crimes in the United States unless it is paired with other measures such as reforming the post mortem facilities in this country. If people know that they are unlikely to get caught, higher penalties for hate crimes won’t make a difference. Unfortunately all the legislation in the world won’t reduce racism. Legislation simply can’t dictate how people think. That is something that has to be done on a more grassroots level (in schools, family, etc.) However, something like this is the first step in making these hate crimes increasingly unacceptable in society, which would hopefully translate into people becoming less racist.