This season's last Teen Connection includes excerpts from an interview WPT did with her, as well as a roundtable discussion with teens that have experienced prejudice and hate.
Many students first encounter the diversity of American society in school.
However, bias, racism and hate still exist. Congress has defined crimes of hate as offenses against people or property motivated at least in part by a bias based on race, religion, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation. A judgment that is not basedo n information, but relies on a hostile attitude toward a person or group. A belief that race determines a person's worth and that some races are superior to others. The acts or beliefs of one who supports nothing except his or her own church, party, race or ethnic group.