Hate Crimes in the Heartland | movie | 2014 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

"Hate Crimes in the Heartland," a feature documentary explores the 250,000 hate crimes committed in America each year th | dG1fd1RKdi1qZENhaTA

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00:00I think it's important for destroying Tulsa's grave.

00:07Much as it is for any great tragedy in world history.

00:12Man Hunt taking place in Oklahoma.

00:15We're looking for a lone gunman in Tulsa.

00:18The two suspects in the Tulsa, Oklahoma shooting spree

00:21have been charged with first-degree murder.

00:24The media is focused on what's going to sell.

00:26They were very quick to say hate crime.

00:28Talk about hate crimes.

00:29Murders are a hate crime.

00:31Been a hate crime.

00:32Hate crime.

00:33Hate crime.

00:34We've had actually more hate crimes committed since the president's been in office

00:37than we have in the last 25 years.

00:39Racial hatred in America is deep because it's taught and tolerated

00:43and it's intergenerational.

00:45A white truck pulled up and asked me about her address.

00:48Five people shot in one night's bad.

00:51Five black people all shot in one night makes you go, hmm.

00:55Next thing I know, they start shooting.

00:57It just reminded me of the destruction that we saw 91 years earlier.

01:01They came through the backyard with those big pine things lighted, you know,

01:06the kinds of things that they set fires with, and they burned my doll clothes first.

01:11It will always be present on our bodies here in Tulsa.

01:17It's almost like it happened 10 years ago instead of more than 90 years ago.

01:22I definitely still think there are open wounds in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

01:26Breaking news out of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

01:27Two arrests this morning in what they're calling Operation Random Shooter.

01:31It's left to be seen yet as to whether he was motivated to act in any way out of racial animus.

01:38I don't think he was.

01:40The Good Friday murders in Tulsa are important because they have the potential for revealing something about who we are as a people.

01:49Historically, like it or not, that's part of the heritage of this community.

01:53If we don't openly talk about it, we've got to make sure it never, ever happens again.