White supremacy
White supremacy is a manifestation of identity politics. It is a racist ideology which asserts that white people (often known as 'Aryans', although not in the Indo-Iranian sense) are somehow "better" than people of other races. These feelings can range from mild (personal bigotry) to extreme (advocating political and social dominance for white people, or ethnic cleansing). White supremacism is often associated with evolutionary racism, Nazism and other fascist ideologies.
White supremacy knows no home on the political spectrum. Many leftwing white supremacists are advocates of the nanny state and view people not like themselves as competitors for government handouts, which they feel an entitlement to based on white privilege. They vote Democrat, not out of a feeling of compassion or kinship with minorities, but to keep the government gravy train rolling. Other white supremacists are known to cash in on illegal immigration through human trafficing.[1] So-called "right wing white supremacist" groups are largely prison gangs where convicted felons band together along tribal and racial lines for mutual protection and support.
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Nazism
- Main article: National Socialism
Adolf Hitler was an evolutionary racist who advocated that the German people were the master race.[2] Albert Speer wrote that Hitler "was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games."[3]
Ku Klux Klan
Another group, the Ku Klux Klan, which has existed in some form since Reconstruction, is also closely associated with white supremacism.
Senate Democrat Leader Robert Byrd
Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd joined the Klan in the 1940s and was unanimously elected to the rank of Exalted Cyclops for his inborn leadership skills.[4][5] He repeatedly expressed his desire for the Klan to expand to its previous size and power, once remarking in a letter that "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the nation." [6]
Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy raging over the idea of racially integrating the military. In his book When Jim Crow Met John Bull, Graham Smith referred to a letter written that year by Byrd, when he was 28 years old, to fellow Klansman Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, in which Byrd vowed never to fight:
| “ | Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. | ” |
| “ | No man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux.[7] | ” |
Modern notions on evolutionary racism
In 2005, Dr. Jerry Bergman wrote:
| “ | David Duke, a leader of several racist groups including the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi party, has ‘become a political rock star of sorts’—and one of the most well-known Americans of the past decade. Furthermore, Duke has worked with virtually every prominent American racist of the last 30 years. Duke’s popularity can be gauged by the fact that he received 680,000 votes in the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial runoff, and was elected to serve in congress in the state of Louisiana....
Duke’s father, a geologist, tried to reconcile evolution with Christianity by concluding that evolution was the means God used to create life. This background set the groundwork for Duke’s later acceptance of Darwinism. As he read more and more on ‘the scientific issue of race’, he became torn between his religion and science. Duke was doing his research on Darwinism while he was attending a Church of Christ school in New Orleans. As a result of his study of evolution, Duke openly challenged his Sunday school teachers by discussing his evolving ideas about the origin of humans, and their implication for racism. When endeavoring to combine his Darwinist racist beliefs with Christianity, Duke used many of the same rationalizations used by theistic evolutionists to rationalize the plain statements of Genesis. Duke eventually sided with Darwinism and rejected creationism. He concluded that with, ‘each passing day more evidence emerges of the dynamic, genetically-born, physical and physiological differences between the races’. So ended his ‘fleeting commitment’ to orthodox Christianity, even though he still peppers his writings with religious phrases, such as if ‘I can move our people one inch toward … God … my life will have been worthwhile’. His life tells a very different story. In short, after his acceptance of Darwinism, Duke unabashedly classified both the European and Asian races at a ‘higher level of human evolution than the African race’. He concluded that, ‘the evolution of man from his primitive to his modern state came from Nature’. Duke now firmly believes that ‘all life on Earth had evolved and is still undergoing change’.[9] |
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For more information, please see: Darwin's influence on modern racists by Dr. Jerry Bergman
Prison gangs
White supremacism as a movement in the United States is most active in prison gangs closely associated with four groups, Aryan Nations, the National Alliance, the Creativity Movement, and White Aryan Resistance, as well as many smaller, often short-lived groups. Aryan Nations, in particular, attempted to unite disparate elements of white supremacism around the so-called "Christian Identity" belief system.
Confusion in academic circles
While the meaning (discussed above) of "white supremacy" has been well understood for decades, some academic scholars have sought to cloud the issue. Since the 1970s, some civil rights leaders have complained of "institutional racism" that is the product of a total institution, even when the individuals are not racist. Such collective "racism" gave rise to demands for "sensitivity training" of individuals as well as express affirmative action quotas. Although allegations of institutional racism have become passe, the concept has now reappeared by redefining "white supremacy." For example, legal scholar Frances Lee Ansley explains this definition as follows:
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| “ | By "white supremacy" I do not mean to allude only to the self-conscious racism of white supremacist hate groups. I refer instead to a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings.[11][12] | ” |
In effect, unconscious compliance with the status quo norms of United States society can make a person a "white supremacist" under this definition.
"That boy" Obama
In speaking of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton told Sen. Ted Kennedy, "that boy would have been carrying our bags and getting us coffee a few years ago".[13] Kennedy was offended by Clinton's racism and refused to give Hillary the endorsement.[14][15] Joe Biden said, "You got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." [16] Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid said Obama was a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,”[17]
Atheist group the Creativity Movement
Creativity, which is espoused by the Creativity Movement, is an atheistic white supremacist movement.[18][19][20] The movement peaked in the 1980s–90s and is now in disarray.
See also
References
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Dinan, Stephen (March 27, 2019). Aryan Brotherhood member pleads guilty to immigrant smuggling in Texas. The Washington Times. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
- Dinan, Stephen (February 27, 2019). How white supremacists are cashing in by smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico. The Washington Times. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1675
- ↑ Hitler, Nazi Philosophy and Sport (2009). Retrieved on March 23, 2014.
- ↑ Pianin, Eric. A Senator's Shame: Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK. Washington Post, 2005-06-19, pp. A01
- ↑ https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-kkk-members
- ↑ King, Colbert I. Sen. Byrd: The view from Darrell's barbershop, Washington Post, March 2, 2002
- ↑ Robert L. Fleegler, "Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938–1947",The Journal of Mississippi History, Spring 2006. [1]
- ↑ "Byrd Says He Regrets Voting For Patriot Act", Common Dreams, February 28, 2006. Archived from the original on September 19, 2006.
- ↑ Darwin's influence on modern racists by Dr. Jerry Bergman]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbAuY4ipDZk
- ↑ Ansley, Frances Lee (1989). "Stirring the Ashes: Race, Class and the Future of Civil Rights Scholarship". Cornell Law Review 74: 993ff.
- ↑ Ansley, Frances Lee (1997-06-29). "White supremacy (and what we should do about it)", Critical white studies: Looking behind the mirror. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-56639-532-8.
- ↑ Did You Know Bill Clinton Made Racist Comments About Barack Obama When He First Ran For President, F. Taylor, Urban Intellectuals, July 17, 2015.
- ↑ Hillary has cynically turned to the one argument she has left: race, Gary Younge, Guardian UK, 2008.
- ↑ America's New Racial Reality: White Minority Status, While Obama raises the bar for racial understanding, the Democratic Leadership Council leverages white voter fear. By Roberto Lovato / New America Media, March 21, 2008.
- ↑ Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny, CNN
- ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/01/the-juiciest-revelations-in-game-change/33226/
- ↑ The new white nationalism in America: its challenge to integration. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved on 2011–03–27. “For instance, Ben Klassen, founder of the atheistic World Church of the Creator and the author of The White Man's Bible, discusses Christianity extensively in his writings and denounces religion that has brought untold horror into the world and divided the white race.”
- ↑ Contemporary voices of white nationalism in America. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved on 2011–03–27. “World Church of the Creator, an organization that espouses an atheistic and white supremacist religious philosophy known as Creativity.”
- ↑ The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved on 2011–03–27. “A competing atheistic or panthestic white racist movement also appeared, which included the Church of the Creator/ Creativity (Gardell 2003: 129–134).”
