White Supremacists remain major threat

Draft documents from the Department of Homeland Security are a source of concern.

Forecast is department of homeland security draft documents report white supremacists will be the most "persistent threat" to this nation through 2021.

This report arrives during a time of political and social tension.

Kimt news 3's isabella basco talked to local experts about the uptick in extremist incidents.

She joins us now live.

Xxx over the past four years... the diversity council tells me their volume of calls has more than doubled.

People call with concerns of race?

"* targeted language and race?

"*targeted acts of vandalism.

This evening ?

"* i found out why white supremacy persists.

Xxx "we've seen a resurgent or a revisibility ?

"* a lifting or coming out of the white supremacy movement that had tended to be underground for a long time."

Dee sabol with the diversity council says hate is looking for a place to land.

When people come together around topics of hatred ?

"* thy gravitate to those movements.

She fears for the worst.

"my concern is that as people become bolder in their hate and their hate speech and their actions, there is potential for danger and increased threat for many of our populations."

Rctc history instructor chad israelson says resurgences of white supremacy come in peaks and valleys.

"we mark the 100th anniversary of the tulsa riots, 1918 ?

"* there were the chicago riots.

This was essentially whites that would attack african?

"* americn neighborhoods ."

Israelson acknowledges ?

"* prejudice is nothing new ?

"* but this resurgence of white supremacy is disheartening.

"a lot of people in america hoped we were beyond this, and maybe were lulled into a false sense of security that we were."

Israelson admits ?

"* the county has seen an increase in hate rhetoric ?

"* but racism is ingrained in our institutions.

"there were killings of unarmed african?

"* americans, o right back to every president, happened under president obama, president bush, president clinton.

These kinds of things are ingrained in our system."

Ultimately ?

"* sabol and israelson believe society can combat white supremacy.

"this is forcing us to take another look at ourselves as a nation ?

"* ultimately ?

"* sabol says questioning hate speech or rhetoric is what will create the interruption and breaks up the sense that anyone is safe to say what they want.

Live in rochester ib kimt news 3./// thank you isabella.

The minnesota department of human rights has set up a hotline so people can report hate incidents.

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