"As Eric Lichtblau began research for a non-fiction book on the rise of hate crimes in the United States, he found that there was a seemingly unending array of horrific examples. In 2022, a White supremacist shot and killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. That same year, a Colorado Springs man, inspired by other hate-inspired mass shootings, killed five patrons at an LGBTQ nightclub."
"A few years earlier, 23 Hispanic people were shot and killed at an El Paso Walmart by a man who posted a hate-filled manifesto online before opening fire. Before that, 11 Jewish people died when a similarly motivated gunman started shooting inside a Pittsburgh synagogue. Eric Lichtblau's new book, American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate, centers its exploration around the rise of hate crimes in the United States around the murder of Irvine teenager Blaze Bernstein, seen here, by Samuel Woodward, a former high school classmate turned neo-Nazi. Bernstein's parents, Jeanne Pepper and Gideon Bernstein, are seen here in 2019, about one year after his death."
Hate-motivated violence has intensified in the United States, marked by fatal mass shootings and targeted killings of marginalized groups. In 2022, a White supremacist killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket and another attacker killed five patrons at an LGBTQ nightclub. Earlier attacks included 23 Hispanic people shot at an El Paso Walmart after a shooter posted a hate-filled manifesto, and 11 Jewish worshippers killed at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The murder of Irvine teenager Blaze Bernstein by Samuel Woodward, a former high school classmate turned neo-Nazi, exemplifies the personalized and ideological nature of recent hate violence. Bernstein's parents were photographed about one year after his death.
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