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On Thursday, March 17th, 2022, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez participated in an Oversight Committee hearing that discussed the rise of hate crimes and bomb threats specifically targeting historically Black colleges and universities.

According to the FBI's most recently published data, 2020 saw the largest spike in anti-Black hate crimes that has ever been recorded since the FBI started the Hate Crime Statistics reporting in 1991.

Intelligence agencies have claimed that such violence is a result of "lone offenders." In reality, hate crimes against Black Americans are part of a larger concerning pattern of white supremacist ideology in the United States.

So long as we fail to address the root causes of violent white supremacist violence, we cannot meaningfully protect our Black communities.