The movement should be thought of as a paramilitary cult led by people who are very insecure in real life and need to blame other people for their own shortcomings. Depending on the group, they use subtle forms of blackmail, threats of assault, and actual physical/sexual assault if you don’t tow the line. Most in the WN movement are very unstable people who need serious psychological help. I’m not saying that jokingly. It is very sad. I considered having my exhusband committed because of his activities. My ex was very Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde – when away from other WNs, he was quite normal but he morphed into crazy SS guy when around his friends. I hate what he believes in but it’s hard for me to hate him because I know he’s mentally ill. They all are mentally ill.

The demands of racists for preferences are well-known and are derived from ideas of America’s Southern Confederacy, which was not only defeated militarily, but in every court of public opinion as well.

If this was such an incident, this was not the “mobs of black youth” that some right wing web sites and bloggers are claiming it was. They are blowing the story way out of proportion, as usual. The event in no way compares to the level of hatred filling our airwaves and streets by Muslim haters every single day as we read this. This incident would be an aberration compared to the daily insult of still denied dreams of the entire African-American community that suffers from substandard schools, housing, and job opportunities. The first of these issues, education is a downward cycle with a national education policy that punishes poor performing schools rather than assisting them with better tools and resources.

Yes, if this is a racial episode it should be condemned as such. The SPLC is not a racist organization on matters such as this and has shown itself willing to take on Black Nationalism just as readily as White Power. So those of you trying to plead racial hypocrisy here need to take a closer look and you will find that the issue is not simply black and white. (Hopefully you can look beyond buzz words and conspiracy theories.)

“To the Editor:
In an otherwise excellent column (“How Long America?”/#367, Summer 1989), Ira Glasser does us a disservice when he equates black and white racism–’The majority of our young people, black and white’ grow up ‘in families whose “traditional values” include virulent racial biases.’ No such neat symmetry exists.
White racism is based, not just on unfamiliarity with blacks, but on a cultivated tradition of superstition and infantile fantasy: the alleged threat to white women of the black man’s alleged sexual prowess, etc. To my knowledge, blacks have no parallel tradition of superstitious loathing of whites. Black anger and resentment…are usually based on bitter experience.
Beyond that, I have lived in predominantly black neighborhoods for 20 years. If blacks are equally racist, I should have been burned out of a few homes by now. But in all these years, I have been only amazed by the tolerance and liberalism of the vast majority of black people, given what we are doing to them…

M.L.
Philadelphia, Pa”

@NTX,

Anyone who is interested in attending a historically black college or university. UNCF helps any such candidate, regardless of skin color or nationality. Historically black colleges have on campus white students and faculty, as well as African Americans.

In fact, during the '30s and 40's, many of these colleges provided an academic haven for Jewish scholars escaping Nazi Europe. There is a documentary on these refugee Jewish scholars, From Swastika to Jim Crow.

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fromswastikatojimcrow/

I say if there is a situation where white people are being ostracized for their race, LEARN FROM IT! Either way, get over it and don’t come whining to us.

Deny them publicity and let law enforcement keep an eye on them.

But when it comes time for the right, particularly the GOP, to condemn the criminal acts of their far-right fellow travelers, they are nowhere to be seen.

No, you won’t hear the GOP condemning the KKK or any of these domestic terrorist groups.

“John please explain why the UNCF, CBC, NAACP, and Howard University are “racist”.”

Ruslan, here are two definitions of the word, “racism” as defined in my Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, which I believe best clarify john’s statement:

“(2) any program or practice of racial discrimination, segregation, etc., specif., such a program or practice that upholds the political or economic domination of one race over another or others; (3) feelings of hatred and bigotry toward a person or persons because of their race.”

The UNCF, CBC, NAACP, and Howard University work toward the advancement of minorities, typically black individuals, to the exclusion of white individuals. How many white people have been helped by the UNCF? The NAACP? Howard University? Whites absolutely aren’t allowed in the CBC. This is racist by definition. The old nonsense of “I can’t be racist because I am black/Hispanic/Asian/etc.” just doesn’t work anymore.

Just divide the number of Hate Groups in each state, by its number of inhabitants. TN comes up on top:

http://www.splcenter.org/get-i.....e-map#s=TN

Licence plate motto: “The state where MLK was killed”.

That kind of rationalization hinges on claiming equivalence between a spontaneous eruption of racially motivated violence on the one hand and a century and a half (plus) of systematic, pervasive, institutionalized racial discrimination on the other. Among other things, this means that for many decades, just about all college scholarship funds were “for white people,” which is what prompted the founding of the UNCF. It would be nice to think that America has changed enough not to need the UNCF to counterbalance the discriminatory administration of other scholarship funds, but the continuing occurrence of events like this KKK shindig give some cause for caution.