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Since we got wind the racist trash at American Renaissance were coming to our fair city, we’ve given ourselves tirelessly to organizing a proper response. The language used might obscure their message, but if you pierce the veil of their racist bullshit you’ll see an organization predicated on the racial, cultural, and religious hatred of anyone not white and “aryan”, and dedicated to spreading a message of oppression and intolerance. Today we’ll examine who the notable figures in their movement are, and why it is important we stand against them.
First we examine the organization itself. American Renaissance was created in 1990 by Jared Taylor. They run a magazine, a website supported by Taylor’s sycophants, and hold yearly or bi-yearly conferences where “intellectual” racists can share with other Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and white supremacists. Using pseudo-scientific language to obscure their message of hatred and oppression, they regularly publish screeds on eugenics (the discredited science of “breeding better humans”), and supposed links between race, IQ, and crime-rate. Though they attempt to maintain an air of scholarly debate, these types of blatant racist propaganda reveal an obsession with race and protecting the supposed “purity” of whiteness. While this would be laughable in normal circumstances, American Renaissance has worked hard to create an air of legitimacy in order to conceal their oppressive and violent ideology. To further this, they hold suit-and-tie events that attract a broad spectrum of participants from the racist right, including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Klan members, Holocaust deniers and eugenicists. The conferences even have an international presence. In 2002, speakers included Nick Griffin, leader of the fascist British National Party. It is important we tear down this intellectual facade and reveal these people as the scum they are. Groups like this incite violence toward minority groups, and perpetuate an ideology based on hatred and xenophobia.
Another racist who deserves the harsh light of reality on them is Sam Dickson. Dickson is known for his association with various extreme-right groups, as well as representing the KKK in court. A lawyer operating out of Atlanta, GA, Dickson has involved himself with fascists and Holocaust deniers internationally. Dickson helped incorporate “Historical Review Press”, a purveyor of Nazi books, music, and memorabilia linked to British Holocaust denier David Irving. Dickson also aided Irving in avoiding criminal charges in Europe by allowing him to briefly stay at his home in Key West, FL. Dickson makes a living dispossessing low-income people, and quite a living it is. “Since 2001, Dickson has built a multimillion dollar business in the niche field of tax lien and title acquisition. His success has depended in no small part on keeping his otherwise well-known racism concealed from his targets, many of whom are poor and black. According to those who have observed and worked with Dickson, his profits have been earned through a combination of bullying, stealth, and legal word bending in the arcane world of tax lien purchases, redemptions and foreclosures.” Dickson is also a luminary with the Council of Conservative Citizens, a modern re-imagining of the old White Citizens Councils which were formed in the 1950s and 1960s to battle school desegregation in the South.
Next up comes Jared Taylor himself. While he attempts to project himself as a sort of scientist, studying the “consequences” of racial integration, his crude rhetoric of white supremacy make it clear he is yet another bigoted and small-minded racist attempting to conceal his ideology of oppression behind a screen of fancy sounding terms. Taylor founded the New Century Foundation in 1990, creating the front from which he publishes his hate speech, and the platform from which American Renaissance operates. Taylor’s organization published an article under the title “Race and the Psychopathic Personality” that argued that blacks “are more psychopathic than whites” and suffer from a “personality disorder” characterized by a poverty of feeling, lack of shame, pathological lying and so on. After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the magazine ratcheted up its customary attacks on blacks, particularly in an error-ridden essay by Taylor that said the hurricane “was an excuse [for blacks] to loot, rob, rape and kill.” Taylor’s extremist views range from racism to eugenics, and he penned a 1992 book, Paved With Good Intentions, that argued because sterilizing welfare mothers would not be publicly accepted, authorities should instead provide such women with “five-year implantable contraceptives.” Not satisfied that this was extreme enough, he went further out on the racist limb in 1993 by speaking at a conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group that has described black people as “a retrograde species of humanity.” Today, Taylor’s New Century Foundation is intimately related to the council through “common membership, governing bodies, trustees and officers,” according to the foundation’s tax forms.
A sort of anomalous figure in these proceedings is David A Yeagley. Yeagley, claiming to be the direct descendant of a Comanche leader named Bad Eagle, calls himself “the sole voice of conservatism among Indian intellectuals.” He has appeared at other American Renaissance conferences, and seems to have strong ties to them and other hatemongers. Yeagley’s blend of racism, Christianity, and morality, plus his claim to be a native Comanche, make him a welcome addition to the conferences. His presence, like that of jewish racists and Holocaust deniers, helps lend an air of credibility to the affair that otherwise might not be possible. A glance at his website (www.badeagle.com) reveals him, like the others listed here, as just another small-minded bigot. He maintains a forum where topics such as “Jewish Welfare; bad as the n*ggers” are discussed in the same breath as christian identity and different societal views on death. It would bring us much satisfaction to see the Comanche Nation distance themselves from such a hatemonger.
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