Still No Change
This article talks about how a hate crime towards Matthew Shepard, 20 years ago leading to his death, is still significant to many. 21 year old Matthew Shepard, who was gay, was robbed, pistol-whipped, tied to a fence, and was left in the freezing cold overnight. He had later died in the hospital.
His death attracted attention from the LGBT.Two decades after Matthew Shepard's death, 20 states still don't consider attacks on LGBT people as hate crimes. This can be connected with the KKK and how they carried out hate crimes and it wasn't that big of a deal to people. It shows how much people really care about the minority or the different person.
By Kennedy Morrison
Hate crimes are all too common in the United States and it disturbs me that crimes against the LGBTQ community aren't considered as serious as crimes against non-marginalized groups.
ReplyDeleteIf this was a straight man, you can believe these things wouldn't happen so saying its not a hate crime is ridiculous. GRAYSON DECKER
ReplyDeleteHate crimes are very real in the U.S. but its sad that crimes against the LGBTQ community aren't considered hate crimes. Society has way of outcasting the people who are different and just want to be accepted for themselves and can't grasp the concept that we are all equal.
ReplyDeleteHate crimes should be shown more and talked about. We should pay attention that hate crimes especially in the LGBT community exist.
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