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Violence Of Hate By Jack Levin And Jim Nol An Analysis

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Taking a look back at our history, slavery was a huge issue that existed within our country as well as a great example of racial conflicts that still exist today. Slavery created such awful stereotypes about black men and women that African Americans now are still paying for these horrific discernments. Slavery demonstrates just how such judgments can form hatred for a particular group and or kind. We now still live in a society where hatred exists everywhere towards numerous different groups, races, and or ethnicities. The problem now lies on how do we as a society address this issue of hate or hatred? Why can’t we as a society create a new type of humanity where slavery is a thing of the past and all of us are the same just from different …show more content…

In the book “Violence of Hate” by Jack Levin and Jim Nolan, the viewpoints of a benign prejudice and a situationist are defined and contrasted. Someone with a benign prejudice viewpoint is someone who “locates the responsibility for inequality in characteristics of the minority group itself.” (Levin, Nolan, 2010; P.28). In other words, one who blames minority groups for their own inequalities and blames them for not being able to succeed. Now the situationist viewpoint allows one to examine “the causes and effects of hate, discrimination, and intergroup violence by looking towards the situations that give rise to these negative conditions and behaviors.” (Levin, Nolan, 2010; P.43). That is, the situationist viewpoint looks at what pressures caused one to behave a certain way or to commit an unlawful act. For instance, not too long ago our president Barack Obama gave a speech on the topic of absent black fathers. President Obama stated, “Too many black fathers are missing in action when it comes to assuming responsibility for their families.” (Bosman, 2008). President Obama is a black man making an extremely strong point there but he is not defending the non-successful black men. Instead he is blaming black fathers for

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