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Preacher of Hate Aged 10
Posted By Hatewatch Staff On June 10, 2010 @ 8:41 am In Hatewatch Headlines | 14 Comments
Andrew Pendergraft may be only ten but he is the face of youth within the Ku Klux Klan, the most infamous hate organization in the world.
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14 Comments To "Preacher of Hate Aged 10"
#1 Comment By Georga Grivois On June 10, 2010 @ 11:07 am
And a little child shall lead them..(KKK) straight to hell!!
#2 Comment By mary b On June 10, 2010 @ 12:22 pm
This is Child Abuse! Or it certainly should be. How is it right to teach a child so young so much hate?
People have been in trouble for doing much less harm to their children. If this child is already this bad, can you even imagine what he will be like as a teenager or an adult? He’ll either end up in prison or dead.
#3 Comment By Laura On June 10, 2010 @ 5:01 pm
This does not seem to be a bad boy he is only preaching what his parents have taught him…..it trully saddens me
#4 Comment By Stop Self-Hatred On June 11, 2010 @ 9:13 am
Laura, what makes a bad boy?
Any white person who doesn’t ridicule themselves is a bad person. Whites must ridicule their people, while others celebrate who they are.
And, please, don’t say his parents taught him that, because we could say society taught you through your schools, movies, politics, and role models to be a self-hating bigot (if your even white). The forces for race mixing and acceptance of white hatred are far stronger than those against it. So, I doubt he doesn’t get influenced by the filth in the media or through the already socially re-constructed people he meets in daily life, as much as he is influenced by his loving parents who just want the best for him and his people .
The kid loves his people, why is that wrong? Why should he be insisted to follow a path (your path) of self-hatred and race mixing? He is white, he shouldn’t have to feel uncomfortable about being proud of who he and his people are.
There is absolutely nothing he or his father teaches that amounts to racism.
Preaching against race mixing, anti-white hatred, genocide, doesn’t amount to racism. If he preached to whites saying why whites shouldn’t be alcoholics, does that mean he hates all avid alcoholics? No. I’m sure he doesn’t hate race mixed people or race mixers, he just thinks it is wrong.
#5 Comment By Joyce On June 11, 2010 @ 5:26 pm
so much evil in our land…it is shameful..seems to me , in more ways than one ,we are becoming known to the world as the “ugly” Americans …it grieves my spirit…may the Lord have mercy is my prayer..
#6 Comment By Sam Molloy On June 12, 2010 @ 5:39 pm
Boy they’d really go off if the state Child Protective Services removed him from this toxic environment, which is what should happen. These people
have cable TV so their errors in logic and Christian philosophy should appear obvious to them eventually.
#7 Comment By Myra Wood Bennett On June 13, 2010 @ 3:28 pm
As a social worker with thirty years experience, it has always struck me that children being raised in this way is a form of emotional abuse. Yes, parents do indeed have rights as to how they raise their children. But to teach a child to feel and experience hate, to me professionally, is emotional abuse pure and simple. There is a thin line between personal freedom and societal responsibility. To teach your child to hate is a violation of social responsibility. I would support legal action taken in all 50 states to place this sort of parenting as a violation of civil rights of both the child(ren) being taught as well as the individuals being targeted.
#8 Comment By Alan On June 14, 2010 @ 10:25 am
Dear Stop Self Hatred,
I often wonder what motivates people like you. So does this self-righteousness get you into heaven faster? And it begs the question, WHY do you choose to come to this site?
Why not spend your time on GOOD. Try that for a while, because you’re doing NONE now.
#9 Comment By Peter Blaise On June 16, 2010 @ 5:03 am
Gosh, “Stop Self Hatred” (so much for people using their real names), I’ve got to find a new dictionary where your words have meaning. No wonder you feel good in your world — you’re all alone.
Let’s check in with the rest of the world on the definitions of “racism”:
From etymonline.com:
racism
1936; see racist.
racist
1932 as a noun, 1938 as an adjective, from race (n.2); racism is first attested 1936 (from Fr. racisme, 1935), originally in the context of Nazi theories. But they replaced earlier words, racialism (1907) and racialist (1917), both often used at first in a British or South African context.
From Google search for [define:racism]:
“… the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race …” — from princeton.edu
“… Racism is the belief that race is a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race …” — from wikipedia.org
“… The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes; The belief that one race is superior to all others; Prejudice or discrimination based upon race …” — from wiktionary.org
“… racist – based on racial intolerance; “racist remarks”
racist – a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others … … racist – discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion …” — from princeton.edu
“… Racist – Playing the race card is an idiomatic phrase that refers to the act of bringing the issue of race or racism into a debate, perhaps to obfuscate the matter …” — from wikipedia.org
“… racist – An advocate of racism; Of, relating to, or advocating racism …” — from wiktionary.org
“… An ideology based on the idea that humans can be separated into distinct racial groups and that these groups can be ranked on a hierarchy of intelligence, ability, morality etc. See: ETHNOCENTRISM / RACE / …” — from icaap.org
“… the use of race to establish and justify a social hierarchy and system of power that privileges, preferences or advances certain individuals or groups of people usually at the expense of others. Racism is perpetuated through both interpersonal and institutional practices …” — from understandingrace.org
“… A set of incorrect assumptions, opinions and acts resulting from the belief that one race is inherently/genetically superior to another. It occurs when people are not treated fairly because of their cultural or ethnic differences …” — from japanesecanadianhistory.net
“… is power plus racial prejudice, a system that leads to the oppression of or discrimination against, specific racial or ethnic groups …” — from mahost.org
“… Prejudice or discrimination based on an individual’s race; can be expressed individually or through institutional power and authority …” — from upei.ca
Well, then!
Nobody’s ever exampled for me any “white-skinned” people ever expressing self-hatred, so perhaps you could enlighten us (so to speak), dear “Stop Self Hatred”. What are you thinking of. and why?
Sad about the boy, and his sisters … sad about the whole family.
Though everyone’s parents seem to have a choice of which wrong way to raise their kids (thanks for the provocative quote, Erma Bombeck), damaging pur children this way seems actionable.
“You can hate, but you can’t hurt,” says Morris Dees, but these parents seem to have hurt their kids.
Where do we as a culture find that it crosses a line, when do we step in to protect the under age, when do we shrug it off and hope they will right themselves?
#10 Comment By Patti Lipsig On June 24, 2010 @ 12:09 pm
The whole concept of opposing “the mixing of the races” is based on assumptions that differences in physical features or pigmentation are somehow more significant than just what they are — physical variations.
If someone went about declaring that short people and tall people should be separated, or that it was morally wrong for a blonde to date a redhead, or that freckled skin carried superior intelligence over non-freckled skin, that person would [correctly, IMHO] be regarded as a complete loon.
I think the whole idea of categorising people according to “race” is long overdue to be scrapped, and the only race any of us truly belong to is simply…”human”.
#11 Comment By Stop Self-Hatred On July 1, 2010 @ 8:42 pm
Patti Lipsig
Your obviously wrong. The whole concept of opposing race mixing has nothing to do with thinking or the assumption that certain verities of races are some how better. Nor is it comparable to someone being short or being tall.
Opposing race mixing is concept nature gave us, it was a concept we always lived by and followed, no matter where we lived in the world races formed along tribal boundaries. Evolution gave us this concept, and therein lies where people like me view the situation from. It’s not that I oppose all mixed race relationship, I happily accept people who engage in interracial relationships if that is what they want and who they’re in love with.
What, I speak against is forced integration. Forced integration is racism of today, it is equaled to genocide. I’m against race mixing when it comes to my peoples survival, you must be insane to think all whites will just accept being integrated like we’re cattle and not human beings, like we have no right to exist as a people.
I’m proud of who I am and love my people, liberals have no problem preserving the different species of birds, but what about their different races of humans who have evolved a part, with different traits, different genes, are we just to die out or pretend we never existed as a people?
As a former anti-racist I’ve always felt what I feel now. I exist as a white person, I know I exist, I feel it, I see it, my emotions are with my people and always have been. You can’t deny me or my people their right to exist, and I can’t deny those who fall in love (either out of real love or just for company) in mixed race relationships.
But, I have a right, just like that Christian family to speak out against it, the same way we have a right to speak out against smokers. It doesn’t make me racist, because the way I see it is that I’m fighting genocide, the slow integrated destruction of my people.
#12 Comment By MrsCaptJack On July 10, 2010 @ 8:12 pm
Dear Stop Self-Hatred ~ Hopefully, you’ve traced your ancestry back all the way to the dawn of time and can prove you’re white, white, white? Sheesh, I’d hate for you to have the stain of any other colour on you.
You’re right. You have the right, just like the Westboro nuts to speak out against whatever you don’t believe in. The rest of us here have the right to think you’re a racist. After all, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it sure isn’t a frog.
And as for your “Stop Self-Hatred” name, how’s that working for you?
#13 Comment By Al On August 3, 2010 @ 10:50 am
Gee, Pati, how is anything being destroyed when new life is coming into being? Why isn’t everyone on this planet your people? I mean, we all belong to one species called homo sapiens. We’re all descendent from a small number of Africans. Human beings are about 99.99% the same genetically- virtually clones. Of the .01% that is different, 85% of that difference exists between members of a so called “race”, 8% between ethnic groups, and 7% between so called “races”. That means you are more likely to be more different from another “white” than you are from a “black” or “yellow” (or whatever you divide people into) picked at random. “Race” is arbitrary, it has nothing to do with nature giving us the concept, the concept was imposed by us on ourselves and wasn’t always around.
Pati, you probably think that seeing is believing and that I sound crazy. Do you believe that the sun moves around the earth and that the earth is flat and motionless? Hopefully, you don’t but your eyes and body would tell you that the sun moves, the earth doesn’t and that the earth is flat. It’s the same for people- the “races” of your eyes don’t exist. All you have is a continuum and nothing discrete.
I’m hoping you’ll understand the above but for a person that talks like you, I doubt it. Have a nice day. :-)
#14 Comment By Al On August 3, 2010 @ 11:13 am
Sorry , I misread the name, I am addressing Stop the self-hatred not Patti Lipsig. BTW, your post was spot on, Patti.