Throughout the history of the modern nation state, politicians and agenda-driven media personalities, have maligned minority groups of the society. In most cases, race has been the trigger used in marginalization. During times of economic prosperity, calls to politically disenfranchise or define minorities as unworthy of equal protection under the law are reduced to murmuring and may even become a liability by association. When an economic or political downturn begins to spiral, however, the murmurs hovering just below the surface, gradually begin to fester and amass sympathetic listeners. As the audience grows, the frequency of these messages begin to reverberate and zero in on members of that society, who for some reason, are viewed outside acceptability. Distrust can be aroused from something as minor as a foreign tongue. Suspicions about what the other believes turn to fear, and fear to animosity; in its most detestable aberration, hate.