Re: White supremacists hope Obama win prompts backlash

On Aug 10, 7:24*am, "Michael Laudahn eOpposition"
<nuke.islamis...@your.earliest.convenience> wrote:
> PEARL, Miss. (AP) - They're not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but
> prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if he becomes
> the first black president. His election, they say, would trigger a
> backlash - whites rising up, a revolution of sorts - that they think is long
> overdue.
>
> He'd be a "visual aid," says former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in
> trying to bring others around to their view that whites have lost controlof
> America. Obama's election, says another, would jar whites into action,
> writing letters, handing out pamphlets rather than sitting around
> complaining.
>
> While most Americans have little or no direct contact with white
> supremacists, organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and the
> Southern Poverty Law Center keep close tabs; the law center estimates some
> 200,000 people nationwide are active in such groups. These observers think
> the prospect of a white revolution is fantasy.
>
> White supremacists - many call themselves nationalists or "White activists,"
> with a capital W - have had limited political success: Duke served in the
> Louisiana Legislature. And the public has periodically been unsettled by
> their public events, like the effort by uniformed Nazis to march through
> Skokie, Ill., the annual Aryan Nations meetings in Idaho and elsewhere or
> the FBI's clashes with armed white supremacists in several Western
> compounds.
>
> Richard Barrett is a 65-year-old lawyer who traveled the country for 40
> years advocating what he perceives as the white side in racial issues - like
> his public support for a white teenager who hung a noose in a Jena, La.,
> school yard.
>
> Barrett is convinced Democratic Sen. Obama will defeat Republican Sen. John
> McCain in November.
>
> And that could cause an upheaval, Barrett, a leader in the Nationalist
> Movement, told The Associated Press in an interview at his rural Mississippi
> home.
>
> "Instead of this so-called civil rights bill, for example, that says you
> have to give preferences to minorities, I think the American people are
> going - once they see the 'Obamanation' - they're going to demand a tweaking
> of that and say, 'You have to put the majority into office,'" Barrett said.
>
> Across the United States, some white supremacists are saying an Obama
> presidency could create a racial backlash that will give their groups a
> boost.
>
> Barrett is evasive about his ideology and tries to keep reporters from using
> "buzz words" to describe him. He doesn't call himself a white supremacist,
> although the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center do.
>
> The law center tracks the Nationalist Movement, the Klan and like-minded
> groups from its Montgomery, Ala., headquarters. The center's "Hatewatch"
> newsletter reported in June that some neo-Nazis, Klansmen and anti-Semites
> are saying an Obama presidency could prompt a race war, which many on the
> "radical right" believe whites would win.
>
> Although not all white supremacists agree, "large numbers of these people
> really seem to think that an Obama election would benefit them hugely," Mark
> Potok, the center's intelligence director, said in an interview. He called
> that view "essentially a fantasy."
>
> Duke, the former Klan leader, posted an essay on his Web site in June
> titled, "Obama Wins Demo Nomination: A Black Flag for White America."
>
> Obama "will be a clear signal for millions of our people," Duke wrote.
> "Obama is a visual aid for White Americans who just don't get it yet thatwe
> have lost control of our country, and unless we get it back we are heading
> for complete annihilation as a people."
>
> Jason Robb, a Harrison, Ark., attorney who represents the Klan's Knights
> Party, describes himself as a "white nationalist."
>
> "It doesn't really matter if Obama wins the election or McCain wins the
> election," Robb said in an interview. "Neither of them are going to try to
> fight to preserve the white race or heritage."
>
> Robb said, however, that Obama's election could prompt more whites to get
> involved in politics by distributing pamphlets or writing letters to
> editors.
>
> Although the South has had more racial violence than most of the country,
> Randy Blazak, a sociology professor at Oregon's Portland State University,
> says white supremacists live all over the United States. Blazak, who has
> studied skinheads for two decades, calls white supremacists a
> counterculture, not a movement, contending the latter term overstates their
> numbers.
>
> Blazak said white supremacists thrive on fear of changing race relations,
> the women's movement and gay rights. Blazak said white working class people
> in particular long for a "Leave It To Beaver" society.
>
> "Those were the 'good old days' for straight, white males. But for everyone
> else, it was a pretty raw deal," Blazak said.
>
> Barrett, a New York City native who moved to Mississippi in 1966, said the
> Nationalist Movement has members in 36 states, but he won't say how many.He
> compares today's skinheads to the minutemen of the American Revolution.
>
> "The Revolution, if you will, in 1776 brought the 13 colonies together
> against the king. And the same thing can happen now against Martin Luther
> King, with the 50 states," Barrett said, if Obama's elected.
>
> Barrett says he is a Democrat but won't say whether he's voting for Obama..
> He'll only say he won't support McCain, Libertarian Bob Barr or independent
> Ralph Nader.
>
> Charles Evers, brother of Medgar Evers, the Mississippi NAACP leader killed
> by a sniper in 1963, chuckles when told about Barrett's assertions.
>
> "See, Richard doesn't really mean what he says. It's popular for him to say
> it. That's the way he makes a living," said Evers, who hosts a talk show on
> WMPR-FM in Jackson. "Same as Jesse Jackson, some more of our black
> revolutionaries who make a living off of keeping things emotional."
>
> Although a longtime Republican, Evers supports Obama. He says the Democrat
> is more qualified than McCain.
>
> Evers, whose office has photos of him with Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon,
> George W. Bush and other politicians, said he sees broad, multiracial
> support for Obama, even in parts of the South where the white establishment
> dug in to try to preserve racial segregation decades ago.
>
> "I think we're past that stage," Evers said. "I don't think the majority of
> white people are thinking that way anymore."
>
> Kim Edwards of Matteson, Ill., a black woman who traveled to Mississippi
> with a racially mixed group so her son could play in a baseball tournament,
> is more skeptical. Edwards worries that extremists want Obama to be elected
> so they can assassinate him.
>
> "I'm really concerned for his safety," said Edwards, who plans to vote for
> Obama. "I'm concerned that once he gets in office that he won't be
> recognized as an American president."
>
> However, former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, a white Democrat who served
> on President Clinton's commission on racial reconciliation, doesn't foresee
> widespread white backlash if Obama is elected.
>
> "We are a diverse country," said Winter, who supports Obama. "We are madeup
> of people of every conceivable racial background."
>
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>
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