Category: Anti-Black

Mississippi Pol Said to be Governor’s Ally Speaks to Racist Group

Posted in Anti-Black by Heidi Beirich on June 29, 2009

This past weekend, the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) held its annual conference at the Cabot Lodge on the campus of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. The “surprise guest,” Mississippi State Sen. Lydia Chassaniol (R-14th District), was introduced by emcee Bill Lord — the CCC’s field director who is known for his racist [...]

In Huge Sweep, Authorities Move Against Latino Gang Accused of Campaign Against Blacks

Posted in Anti-Black by Casey Sanchez on May 21, 2009

Nearly 90 members of a Southern California Latino street gang were arrested today for engaging in “systematic efforts to rid the community of African-Americans with a campaign of shootings and other attacks,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
Five indictments unsealed today charged 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens street [...]

Dubious Declarations Department: Long-Time Neo-Nazi Boss Officially Judged ‘Reformed’

Posted in Anti-Black by Sonia Scherr on May 7, 2009

Bill Riccio headed a Birmingham, Ala.-area racist skinhead network responsible for at least two murders during the early ’90s, became a Klan officer after being released from prison in 1994, and regularly attended racist rallies in the years after that. As recently as 2007, Riccio said openly that he was still working to recruit young [...]

Mainstream Scholars Attend Racist Conference Hosted By Jewish Astrophysicist

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Muslim by Janet Smith on March 18, 2009

Seventy people, including a few well-known mainstream academics, joined prominent white nationalists and academic racists gathered in the Four Points Sheraton at the Baltimore/Washington International airport last month for the first-ever “Preserving Western Civilization Conference.” Its aim: to defend “America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and European identity.” But not much civilized was said there. Rather, the discussion [...]

Threats Against Obama Growing as Inauguration Nears

Posted in Anti-Black by Mark Potok on January 18, 2009

With the Tuesday inauguration of Barack Obama drawing nearer by the hour, threats against the first black man to be elected U.S. president are growing more heated.
On Friday, neo-Nazi threatmeister Hal Turner, amplifying on an earlier posting suggesting that it would be a good thing to use an unmanned drone carrying explosives to attack inaugural [...]

After the Election

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Editorial, White Supremacist by Mark Potok on November 7, 2008

After 250 years of slavery, a century of Jim Crow laws, and a legacy of racial terror that includes the lynching of thousands of African Americans, America has elected a black president. It was a day that many thought would never come.
In all the euphoria after the election of Barack Obama, it is tempting to [...]

Mongols Indictment Details Biker Gang’s Racism, Alleged Crimes

Posted in Anti-Black, Extremist Crime, Hate Crime by Casey Sanchez on October 24, 2008

Shooting up “Toys For Tots” charity events. Selling cocaine to Catholic high school football coaches. Earning “purple wings” by having sex with dead women.
Unsealed earlier this week, a vividly detailed, 177-page federal indictment (PDF) leveling 86 felony counts against 79 members of the Mongols motorcycle gang is a dizzying cavalcade of barbarous and degenerate acts, [...]

Neo-Nazi Leader Bill White Jailed, Charged With Obstructing Justice

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Gay, Anti-Semitic, Extremist Crime, Neo-Nazi by Mark Potok on October 19, 2008

This time, he finally went too far.
At least that’s what federal officials apparently concluded when they charged neo-Nazi leader Bill White (arrest photo, right), the threat-spewing former anarchist from Roanoke, Va., with obstructing justice on Friday. As first reported by Hatewatch on Sept. 12, the leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party had posted [...]

Neo-Nazi Leader Investigated for Allegedly Intimidating Juror

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Semitic, Neo-Nazi by Larry Keller on October 17, 2008

Federal agents, digging for possible evidence to charge neo-Nazi provocateur Bill White with threatening a juror, have seized computer modems, servers and other equipment from a Roanoke, Va., apartment where his website is based.
The website, Overthrow.com, has been shut down since the FBI served a search warrant on the apartment on Saturday.
The search warrant affidavit [...]

Fox’s Cavuto Wins SPLC’s Dobbsy Award for Pinning Blame on Minorities for Mortgage Crisis

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Latino, Dobbsy Awards, Extremist Propaganda by Mark Potok on October 6, 2008

The first wave of nominations are in, and one man stands head and shoulders above the rest to claim our inaugural Dobbsy Award – Neil Cavuto of Fox News.
The host of “Your World with Neil Cavuto” used his program to put the blame for the subprime mortgage meltdown squarely where he believes it belongs – [...]

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