![]() ![]() The focus of the film goes beneath the one-dimensional, sensationalized images of skinheads, or the killer-kid stereotypes so often portrayed in media, to illuminate the social, economic and personal factors molding the lives of these highly feared, yet deeply frightened young people. Unlike the nationally reported attack on Carlos Colbert, the black Marine paralyzed in 1998 by white racist youths in neighboring Santee, this horrific murder never even made headlines until this film was broadcast.Ĭulture of Hate-Who Are We? was filmed over the course of two years and documents a series of violent and race-related events involving angry, alienated white kids growing up in this historically white, working-class community from the murder of the Mexican migrant worker in the Spring of 1999, through the Spring of 2001, when two high school shootings occurred in the adjacent towns of Santee and El Cajon. They were symbols well known to the children of this small town and to the three local teens convicted of the murder. The walls of the ditch where his body was found were covered with swastikas and other symbols of white racism. On April 23, 1999, the body of Irineo Soto Aquilar, a Mexican migrant worker, was found in a drainage ditch near the center of Lakeside, California. ![]()
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