bq. A sharply divided Virginia Supreme Court struck down a state law against cross-burning Friday, saying such acts of bigotry are a protected form of speech.
bq. In a 4-3 ruling, the court threw out the convictions of three people in two cases. One involved the burning of a cross at a Ku Klux Klan […]
When Race Burns Class: “Settlers” Revisited — An Interview With J. Sakai
EC: In the early eighties you wrote Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things?
JS: Settlers […]
Powering the White Revolution
In the summer of 1999, Dr. William Pierce, author of the infamous “Turner Diaries,” a novel of race war and anti-Semitism that has become a best-seller within white supremacist circles, bought controlling interest in Resistance Records. He’s expecting to sell close to a million dollars worth of CDs within the next year […]
Media Downplay Bigotry of Jesse Helms
Of civil rights protests Helms wrote, “The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.” (WRAL-TV commentary, 1963) He also wrote, “Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact […]
The decision on what kind, if any, of a delegation the Bush administration would send to the eight-day conference will depend on whether language in the meeting’s agenda criticizing Israel is changed in the coming days — NYT
As I explained in an article (”The Global Privileges of Whiteness“) earlier this summer, one of the chief […]
As reported today by the AP (”Lawmaker Forwarded Racist E-Mail“), a North Carolina state representative, Republican Don Davis, forwarded Christian Identity Movement — a religious, White supremacist, anti-semitic hate group, committed to, as they put it, “reconstructing a national identity for Christians” — email to every politician in the NC legistlature.
The email claims that “two […]
In the 17 August CSM, in a story about gang activity in Cape Flats, South Africa, we find modest but real confirmation of one of the secondary arguments against America Neoconfederatism, evinced most notably of late by the public display of Confederate flags on government property. The primary argument is that such displays are morally […]