
“Go back to your country” and “Get out of my country.” That’s what white men in Kansas and Washington state told Indian and Sikh men in recent weeks before shooting them ― it’s as if they were speaking from the same script.
Here are 97 times in the past two years that people hurled this kind of get-out-of-America hate, often with explicit language, at minorities ― whether it was yelled from car windows, spray-painted on buildings or written in threatening emails ― to make them feel lesser and like they don’t belong here.
These quotes were collected, in part, using data from ProPublica’s Documenting Hate Project. If you’ve been a victim or a witness of hate, tell us your story.
― March 8, 2017, in Salem, Oregon
― March 4, 2017, in Lansing, Michigan
― March 3, 2017, in Kent, Washington.
― March 1, 2017, in Brooklyn, New York
― Feb. 22, 2017, in Olathe, Kansas
― Dec. 31, 2016, in Las Vegas
― Dec. 28, 2016, in Kodiak, Alaska
― Dec. 11, 2016, in Bronx, New York
― Dec. 6, 2016, in Moonachie, New Jersey
― Dec. 5, 2016, in New York
― Dec. 3, 2016, in Brooklyn, New York
― Nov. 31, 2016, in Cedar Falls, Iowa
― Nov. 26, 2016, in San Diego
― Nov. 24, 2016, in San Jose, California
― Nov. 23, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico
― Nov. 17, 2016, in Queens, New York
― Nov. 17, 2106, in West Springfield, Massachusetts
― Nov. 16, 2016, in Philadelphia
― Nov. 15, 2016, in New York
― Nov. 14, 2016, in Fremont, California
― Nov. 11, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio
― Nov. 11, 2016, in Iowa City, Iowa
― Nov. 11, 2016, in San Francisco
― Nov. 10, 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
― Nov. 10, 2016, in New Paltz, New York
― Nov. 9, 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
― Nov. 9, 2016, in Salt Lake City
― Nov. 9, 2016, in North Bend, Oregon
― Nov. 9, 2016, in Maple Grove, Minnesota
― Nov. 9, 2016, in Plano, Texas
― Nov. 9, 2016, in Woodland, California
― Nov. 8, 2016, in Edwardsville, Illinois
― November 2016 in Denver
― November 2016 in Spokane, Washington
― November 2016 in Poughkeepsie, New York
― November 2016 in Englewood, Colorado
― November 2016 in Sonoma, California
― Oct. 31, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico
― Oct. 20, 2016, in Fort Smith, Arkansas
― Oct. 14, 2016, in Dundalk, Maryland
― Oct. 9, 2016, in New York
― Sept. 22, 2016, in Lakewood, New Jersey
― Sept. 22, 2016, in Norman, Oklahoma
― Sept. 19, 2016, in Lonsdale, Minnesota
― Sept. 8, 2016, in Brooklyn, New York
― September 2016 in Orange County, California
― August 2016 in Bowling Green, Kentucky
― July 24, 2016, in Pahrump, Nevada
- July 24, 2016, in San Francisco
― July 2, 2016, in Fort Pierce, Florida
― July 2016 in Omaha, Nebraska
― June 22, 2016, in Waterbury, Connecticut
― June 22, 2016, in Germantown, Maryland
― June 17, 2016, in Plainfield, Indiana
― June 16, 2016, in Boston
― June 15, 2016, in Tucson, Arizona
― June 14, 2016, in New York
― June 13, 2016, in Queens, New York
― June 9, 2016, in Richardson, Texas
― June 2, 2016, in San Jose, California
― June 2016 in Plainfield, Indiana
― May 25, 2016, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
― May 23, 2016, in Orange County, California
― May 15, 2016, in Tulsa, Oklahoma
― April 30, 2016, in Marshfield, Wisconsin
― April 21, 2016, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
― April 7, 2016, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin
― March 21, 2016, in Oakhurst, California
― March 12, 2016, in Cleveland
― March 12, 2016, in Cleveland
― March 12, 2016, in Wichita, Kansas
― March 2016 in Lexington, Kentucky
― Feb. 9, 2016, in College Station, Texas
― Early 2016 in Elmwood Park, New Jersey
― Jan. 28, 2016, in Edina, Minnesota
― January 2016 in Tucson, Arizona
― Dec. 20, 2015, in Brooklyn, New York
― Dec. 16, 2015, in Phoenix
― Dec. 11, 2015, in Lancaster, New York
― Dec. 8, 2015, in Pittsburgh
― Dec. 1, 2015, in Bismarck, North Dakota
― December 2015 in Clifton, New Jersey
― Nov. 17, 2016, in New York
― Nov. 14, 2015, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
― Nov. 10, 2015, in Milwaukee
― November 2015 in Queens, New York
― November 2015 in Hudson County, New Jersey
― Oct. 10, 2015, in Spokane Valley, Washington
― Oct. 7, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa
― October 2015 in Columbus, Ohio
― Sept. 14, 2015, in Dallas
― Sept. 10, 2015, in Sterling Heights, Michigan
― Sept. 8, 2015, in Darien, Illinois
― September 2015 in Austin, Texas
― Aug. 27, 2015, in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
― Aug. 25, 2015, in Dubuque, Iowa
― July 26, 2015, in Lewiston, Maine
― July 4, 2015, in Houston, Texas
This story was reported using data from ProPublica’s Documenting Hate Project. This project is collecting reports to create a national database of hate crimes and bias incidents for use by journalists and civil-rights organizations. If you’ve been a victim or a witness, tell us your story.