From “Black and White: Disrupting Racism One Friendship At A Time” by Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick
Some are tempted to argue that slavery and segregation have ended, so racism is no longer a reality. This is just not the case. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program in 2016, law enforcement agencies reported the occurrence of 6,121 hate crimes. Of these crimes, 57.5 percent involved bias due to race, ethnicity, or ancestry. Statistics can make the problem of racism seem abstract, but behind each and every figure is a real person who experienced the all too real pain of racism.