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==Hate crime victims==

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Racist anti-[[black people|black]]<nowiki> bias is the most frequently reported hate crime motivation in the [[United States]]. Of the 8,208 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2010, 48% were race related - with 70% of those having an anti-black bias.</nowiki><ref name="fbi 2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-victims |publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]|title=Hate Crime Statistics, 2010|accessdate=March 16, 2012}}</ref> Other frequently reported bias motivations were anti-Hispanic, anti-Jewish, anti-Islamic, anti-white, and against a person's sexual orientation.<ref name="fbi 2010" /> At times, these bias motivations overlap, as violence can be both anti-gay and anti-black, for example.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Meyer|first=Doug|title=Evaluating the Severity of Hate-motivated Violence: Intersectional Differences among LGBT Hate Crime Victims|journal=Sociology|year=2010|volume=44|issue=5|pages=980–995|doi=10.1177/0038038510375737|url=http://soc.sagepub.com/content/44/5/980.short}}</ref>

The majority of victims of [[violence|violent hate crime]] in 2003-2011 were from the White community (65%) followed by Hispanic (15%) and African American groups (13%).<ref>"[http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hcv0311.pdf Hate Crime Victimization, 2003-2011]" (PDF). U.S. Department of Justice.</ref>