Source: Press of Atlantic City
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/cumberland/032603DEES2.html
On March 26, 2003 the Press of Atlantic City reported that "twenty-four-year-old Mulegeta Seraw left Ethiopia in search of the American dream... But his dream died with him when he was killed in Portland, Ore., allegedly by members of White Aryan Resistance, a white supremacy group... Seraw's tragic story was recounted Tuesday by Morris Dees, a national advocate for diversity, who spoke to a group of Cumberland County College students about 'Tolerance and Understanding in Uncertain Times...' 'We are fighting a war which is much bigger than the war on Iraq,' said Dees, chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group specializing in lawsuits involving civil rights violations, domestic terrorists and racially motivated crimes. 'The war is about whose America is this and whose version is going to prevail...' Dees said more than 40,000 hate crimes are committed in this nation annually and there are 600 hate groups and 35 hate sites on the Internet."