YouTube has some very weird channels this one literally changes their political and religious platform having no constancy. Its totally out there completely. Last year their ideology was being homophobic and was quite nasty to the gay community, usually it has been anti-trans also.
And of course I had to comment on their homophobic shit storm.
White hate groups are all around us, in the United States we have them in all fifty states and they can be found all around the world. In America they have a long history of harassing, torturing, and killing, those who they feel are non-human. They spread their hatred through propaganda in their writings, music, Internet sites, and the national media. Using television and radio to spread their hatred, the Ku Klux Klan and other white hate groups have been seen on shows in the past like Geraldo and The Jerry Springer Show, trying to get more people involved in their movement, preying on the young who they feel are more easily swayed to their viewpoints and people’s weaknesses. Back in 2001 the Ku Klux Klan from Idaho were even invited to the farmers’ parade rally that was held in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Small town America is not safe from their grip. Racial hatred has always been a part of America; we were founded in genocide, torturing and killing the Native American Tribes for their land, and with building a country on the backs of African slaves. It’s not a history to be pride of but one we need to learn from, so future generations can change.
White Christian Separatist groups are some of the oldest and strongest hate groups here in America. The Ku Klux Klan, The American Nazi Party, Christian Identity and others follow a strict separatist Christian belief, of racial purity, that has its roots from the time the white European Puritans stepped on the shores of what would be the United States of America. Their targets are Jews, Non-Whites, other Religious groups (including other Christians that do not follow their ways), feminists, lesbians and gays, and anyone that does not agree with their agenda.
The old Ku Klux Klan was created in 1865 by former Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee. It started as just a club for white Southern Christian men, but soon turned into a nightmare, hunting down freed African slaves, (men, women and children), torturing, raping, and killing them in the thousands in the name of white Christian society. Growing in numbers, the Ku Klux Klan became a powerful force in the Southern States. Today’s Ku Klux Klan has a larger agenda of hate, including other non-whites, (as well as African Americans), Jews, feminists, lesbians and gays, and other religious groups. They can be found in all fifty states, having offices or meeting areas. They have parades to make a show of their numbers, and in some Southern States the local law enforcement uses them for back up, like a volunteer police force or militia.
George Lincoln Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party in 1958. The American Nazi Party believes that the fictionalized Aryan race is the chosen people of their Christian god. The party’s greatest goal is to exterminate the Jewish race and send all African Americans back to Africa. They want to stop all mixing of races and to stop lesbians and gays from gaining equal rights. They believe that they are the ones who will create a pure Caucasian race here on American soil; they want to do what Hitler started and failed at in Germany.
Christian Identity is a white separatist group, with radio shows, other media outlets, churches and bible camps all through the United States. It is based on the belief that Anglo-Saxon Christians are the true Israelis (the biblically chosen people.) This movement started back in the 1700s, coming to America in the 1940’s. Their beliefs are very racist and anti-Semitic. Jews they believe are the children of Eve and Satan, and must be destroyed. Like all other Christian hate groups, they believe in the myth that the Jewish race is in control of everything, and trying to destroy the Christian faith. They also believe that the Holocaust was a Jewish conspiracy and that Hitler was a hero to the Caucasian race. Non-whites they believe are soulless creatures that are non-human and are inferior to the Anglo-Saxon race; though not as threatening as the Jewish race, non-whites or what they call the “Mud People” are still a threat to their blood purity. Christian Identity believes that race mixing is against the plan of their god, to mate with a Jew or a non-white is like a form of bestiality. Their members would like to see mixed racial dating and marriages outlawed in America. They are also against gay rights, believing that it is a Jewish movement to destroy the Christian American family. They home school their children so they cannot interact with children of different races and so they cannot learn about other ways of life. The real world these children never get to interact with, growing up to believe everything the group teaches them; making generation after generation of members that know no other way to live, but to hate those who they are indoctrinated too.
Women’s rights and feminism are seen in these religious hate groups as going against the nature of white womanhood and the natural role of women. Women in these hate movements are held in mostly a subordinate role, they are there to support the men and to give birth to the next generations of the so-called Aryan race or God’s chosen race, and are encouraged to have large families. Women in most of these groups are taught that their place is in the home to take care of the children and to home educate them in the ways of the group’s beliefs and faith, most do not have jobs outside of the home or hate organization. The group Christian Identity takes it one step farther, and doesn’t believe that women need to go to college, believing that educating women equally to men, is a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the white Christian American family and to destroy Aryan women’s femininity, and makes them too masculine or turns them into lesbians so they are not fit to marry or breed with. Women are also believed to be spiritually weaker than men, not to be fully trusted, because of being the daughters of Eve, who they believe is the mother of the Jewish race. This was a sin against Eve’s pure white race, for this, all white women must be put in their place, forever being subservient. Lesbians and gays are seen to be a threat to the perfect white Christian family. White lesbians are seen as breaking the rules of white womanhood, not being the good wives, mothers, and helpmates to pure white husbands saving the pure white race. White gay man are seen as not being leaders, husbands, and fathers, fathering the next generation of the white race.
In America these groups have free reign to spread their terrorist hatred (hiding behind freedom of religion and freedom of speech), when other countries try to slow their progression down. It is America’s turn to stand up for all her citizens, to protect them from these groups and their dangerous beliefs. We should start saying no to hate speech, to teach our children in our schools, places of worship and our homes, that we are all equal. Anthropologists and scientists have said it all along; we are one species, one race, the human race. We come in many skin shades, eye colors, and hair colors (straight to curly), all do to the climate and the area of the world our ancestors lived in. We can be short or tall, skinny or on the heavy side. We are female, male and even at times born intersexual, gay, straight, bisexual… and we all deserve respect and safety. We have different ethnicities, cultures, thoughts, religions, and political views. But when it comes down to it, we are all the same human animal, having the same human DNA, body physiology, made of tissue, bone and blood. We are a specie that is always in change, always dreaming, always thinking, and always creating. So next time you feel like saying a word of hate against your neighbor, think about the fact that you are saying it against your own kind, a fellow member of the human race.
Writer’s Note:
This is dedicated to my Anthropology Professor Thomas Larson (this was a speech and paper for his Cultural Anthropology class at Klamath Community College.) He will be forever missed.Biography from one of his books: “Professor Thomas J. Larson of Klamath Falls, Oregon, was born on a farm in Minnesota in 1917. He has four degrees in cultural anthropology, and has made eight expeditions from 1950 to 1994 to study the Hambukushu of Botswana. He is a member of the Explorer¡¯s Club, Oxford Society, and World War II organizations” Dibebe of the Okavango by Thomas Larson (2001) http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Okavango-Thomas-Larson/dp/0595239455.
Has the American Southeast changed from its intolerant and unjust past? Is racism, ethnic and religious intolerance still factors in how justice is laid out and how people are treated by their neighbors in the southern states, also called the Bible belt? Many would say, yes, it has changed do to great men and women like Martin Luther King JR, who fought peacefully to gain rights for all to live in justice instead of injustice. The Bible belt has become more diverse over the years, because of climate, cheaper real estate and jobs, which bring people in from New England, western states, (like California), and from other countries. This means that the once very homogeneous white Protestant Confederate South of the past has a mix of different cultures, ethnicities, races and religions. Many cities like Atlanta, Georgia have a cosmopolitan atmosphere, with many different communities interacting together, not at all like the stereotypical old South.
It is hard to imagine that not so long ago, race and ethnic differences were a major factor in everyday life in the Southeastern states (and the rest of the country in different degrees), from the time of slavery to modern times. African-Americans were thought of as sub-humans, enslaved, mistreated and oppressed. In the mid 1900’s even after being freed from slavery for almost a century in Southern states, they had to fight to vote, couldn’t use the same public areas as Caucasians, or hold certain jobs (hard labor and domestic jobs were deemed theirs) and they were constantly being showed through unjust laws, their place compared to their white neighbors. The history of the Confederate South owning slaves made it easy for whites to feel superior to their black neighbors, a lot of them had ancestors who owned slaves, and viewed it as a biblical right. Other minorities were seen also as outsiders, trying to corrupt their old ways. Jews from the North and South, who fought right alongside Martin Luther King JR. for the rights of African-Americans to have all the rights of their Caucasian neighbors, were viewed with old biblical anti-Semitic hate. They were told to stay out of what was the Southern Protestant way of life that Christians were the true Southerners and the ones who made the laws. Catholic Southerners were viewed also as a threat to the Protestant Southerner’s viewpoint; Catholics followed a pope, which was a foreigner. Foreigners were dangerous to the old ways, bringing in different viewpoints on political, religious, cultural and racial issues. That the Old South did not want to face, because it might cause dangerous change, where white Protestants might have to interact with “the others”, and give them the same rights as they had in all parts of daily life. Progressive Southern Protestants who fought for the rights of African-Americans were also viewed as being un-Southern and un-Christian, traitors to racial purity and the Southern lifestyle.
Today the Bible belt is more progressive, thanks to new comers coming in and more liberal Southerners speaking out. But the old Confederate South still is alive and well in the rural areas, (especially), and in the government and the legal systems in many states and their counties. The Confederate flag still is considered a symbol of Southern pride against what is perceived as a protest against Northern aggression and a mythical Jewish controlled government that has pressured them to change. Many still talk of the old ways, not liking the change that is slowly happening. Some Southerners still would live in the times of slavery or Jim Crowe if they had their wishes; others do not like that black children can interact with white children in their schools, some high schools even have racially segregated proms, so parents are more at ease. Just a few years ago, one Southern university made it permissible, finally, for interracial couples to finally be able to date on their campus, without getting expelled. Hate groups still have a strong role in many ways. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), founded after the American Civil War in Georgia to try to regain white supremacy through intimidation, terrorism and murder, still exist today. Other hate groups like American Front, National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP), The Nationalist Movement, Stormfront, and a variety of skinhead groups and other hate groups, all can be found in various Southern states (and non-Southern states also), hiding under the First Amendment and Second Amendment, of free speech, free assembly and the right to bear arms. All of these groups are home grown terrorists, but the legal system usually ignores them as just good old boys until someone is murdered. They are a normal part of some areas of the South, with little or no protest, having community activities, even parades down Main Street.
Other parts of the United States have issues on race, ethnicity and religion which can get heated and dangerous. There is racism, antisemitism and religious intolerance everywhere in the country, but the Southeast seems to take more of a pride in thinking in the old ways and celebrating them, and remaining more racially and ethnically separated. The governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell in 2010 declared the month of April as “Confederate History Month” (and so has others), honoring for the most part the historical crime of slavery and the inhumanity of racism and hate. Other Southern States would also like to honor Confederate history on their books. Should slavery ever be celebrated? It is these factors and mindset that still causes injustice in many ways, causing poverty, unfairness in the legal system, and at times still hate crimes (not just in the American South, because these cultural ideas are spread throughout the country). I for one will not be celebrating “Confederate History Month”, my ancestors fought against slavery in the South, people like them should be honored not slave owners and those that fought to keep slavery.
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A person’s perceived racial identity can be a blessing or a curse. In the United States race has always been an important subject, which has carried with it oppression and segregation. This history began with the encampment and genocide of the Native Americans by the European explorers, the enslavement of Africans in the New World, the recent history of the strong segregation of the Jim Crow laws in Southern states, and the long and hard fight for racial integration. Racial hatred still thrives today in the United States and throughout the world, sometimes in the light, and sometimes in the shadows. Separatist groups, using both faulty science and twisted religion, try to separate the human race into sections and define each race into superior and inferior species. But what really is race?
The origin of the human race has always been a fascination for both science and religion. Charles Darwin in 1859 was one of the first scientists to come up with a theory based in science, which explained the human race’s existence called evolution. Darwin’s theory of evolution supported the fact that the human race was one species. However, this also allowed for other scientists to come up with theories of unequal evolutional processes, and the theory of “survival of the fittest”, where human groups are in competition for resources. This view also allowed for racism in a different way, viewing darker skinned ethnic groups as less evolved than lighter skinned ethnic groups. Science today bases its theories on bones, genetic findings, and artifacts from the distant past, to support the theory of evolution and the development and movement of the human race. “The earliest hominids evolved from apes about 5 million years ago, but modern humans (Homo sapiens) didn’t emerge until 150,000 – 200,000 years ago in eastern Africa, where we spent most of our evolution together as a species” (“Go Deeper: Human Diversity”) http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-godeeper.htm. Most of today’s scientists do not view people through any mythical racial scenario; they categorize human beings by geographic and cultural differences.
The various world religions have many kinds of stories to explain the human race’s beginnings, and why we are here on planet earth, weaving beautiful and sometimes horrific tales of creation. In the Hebrew Bible’s Genesis, the human race began with Adam, a being sculpted by God from the earth. This story of the human race’s creation is recognized by three major religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Many Native American creation stories also have the human race created from the earth, being of one race. In the Hopi tribe’s first story of creation they include a being called Spider Woman, who gives life to the human race after creating everything else on earth. In this story the human race slowly separates, going to different parts of the world causing conflicts within the human family, and forgetting the Creator. Finally they are destroyed and recreated, and we may be being recreated right now. In most of these creation stories, the message is the same; we are one species and to go against your fellow human being, is to sin against a Creator.
White separatists in the United States and throughout the world have a different viewpoint on the origins and the definition of what race is. They have used science and religion for hundreds of years to categorize humans into races and even different species, for their theories and beliefs. Using scientific research of the past and their own pseudo anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, and bio-scientists to come up with an alternate theory for the human race, where each race developed independently and in different parts of the world. Religion has also played a part in separating the human specie, using stories of creation to support their viewpoint. The Christian Identity movement (which started in England), and other separatists Christian sects throughout history have used religion to support their theories of racial divide. They have used both the story of Christian creationism and the mythical “Tower of Babble”, which they believe is God separating the races once again. Followers of this form of Christianity believe that the separation of the races started even before the Garden of Eden itself, using creationism instead of evolution, to support their theology of racial separation and racial purity. Non-whites are viewed as soulless beast, which must be controlled or exterminated for their own good and to protect against racial or species mixing. Jews are viewed as the children of the devil, which the serpent represents, and a danger to the white race and Christianity itself. Any interracial breeding, which they believe was the real meaning of the “original sin”, is considered an abomination to God and the Christian faith, weakening the white race’s genetic and spiritual heritage. The white race is supposed to be protected at all times from the other races. The mythical white womanhood is to be protected, because women are the doors to the white race’s future generations and they have inherited Eve’s weakness for interbreeding with the other species. A white woman’s primary job is to ensure that the white race continues by picking a husband, who is racially pure, and having children and educating them about the importance of the white race and its purity.
White Christian separatists in the United States believe that at some time there will be what they call a race war, where the white race will have to battle against all the other races on earth, and that they will have to forcefully take the United States back from non-whites. Some of these groups believe this is already beginning with what they call the “culture war”. The movement teaches its followers not to trust the United Nations or the United States’ government, which they believe are backed by a Jewish agenda to destroy the white race and to take away its God given rights and country. Equal rights laws and affirmative action protections are viewed with mistrust, because separatists believe these laws are made to take away the mythical white man’s power. They also view hate crime laws as a push towards this perceived race war, where they are prosecuted for doing their Creator’s work.
The theory that the human animal is separated into different races is a very young one. Even slavery predates the belief in different races, and was the product of conquest and power, not physical differences between people. “Ancient societies, like the Greeks, did not divide people according to physical distinctions, but according to religion, status, class, even language. The English language didn’t even have the word “race” until it turns up in a 1508 poem by William Dunbar referring to a line of kings” (“Go Deeper: What is Race”) http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_01_a-godeeper.htm. Science today shows us that we are one species, not different sub-species. The human race has traveled and adapted to many different environments, which have changed our body size, type, and appearance. We have also seen recessive genes add to the different types of appearances that one may encounter in the human race, examples include blues eyes and red hair. Ancestry controls what your appearance and genetic makeup will be, not race. “Skin color really is only skin deep. Most traits are inherited independently from one another. The genes influencing skin color have nothing to do with the genes influencing hair form, eye color, blood type, musical talent, athletic ability or forms of intelligence. Knowing someone’s skin color doesn’t necessarily tell you anything else about him or her” (“Go Deeper: What is Race“) http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_01_a-godeeper.htm. The side effects of defining the human race into races has been disastrous, causing untold harm and death, allowing for brutal slavery, segregation, and numerous genocides in the past several hundred years. In the United States racial segregationists have committed numerous terrorist attacks on African-Americans, Jews, and other ethnic groups, burning and bombing churches, synagogues, and businesses. They have murdered their fellow human beings, without legal ramifications, using constitutional protections to back their agenda and actions. Today, these white separatist individuals and groups pose a danger not just to the individual, who is the perceived other, but also to the security of the countries they inhabit.
Separating people into races and even species is scientifically and spiritually wrong. The theory that the human animal is separated into different races is a very young one, and hopefully it can be reversed, with cultural and diversity education. We call ourselves evolved and have the brain power for many great things, yet we look toward our own species with hate, seeing simple differences as an excuse to do inhuman and un-Godly crimes against each other. So are we really as evolved as we profess to be? This question may never be answered, if we do not want to even admit there is a problem.
Throughout history humans have been killing one another without mercy, because of racial, ethnic, religious, political and other differences and territory grabs. What we call genocide and ethnic cleansing today has been happening, in one way or another, throughout human history. We never seem to learn from the past the right lessons, only how to do the killings more effectively and efficiently, without mercy or regret. The Crusades, the Inquisition, the Burning Times, the takeover of the new world and its land from the Native Americans, The Shoah (Holocaust), and genocidal crimes in Tibet, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, and many more places throughout the world, past and present, show the inhumanity of the human race towards each other, and these crimes will go on into the future, “genocide inspires genocide”. It seems history must repeat it’s self over and over again; humans will not get past the psychology of hate. Lessons which should be learned are lost in ignorance.
Even defining the word “Genocide” is difficult for many governments and individuals, though its definition seems very clear: “The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group” (The Merriam-Webster Dictionary 2015). But this definition leaves many gray areas that groups and governments can use to get around global laws on human rights and genocide, to go on with their own criminal agendas against humanity. The definition does not explain or define what really makes up a group of people, or how many people in that group can be killed before it is considered a genocidal incident and not just an ethnic cleansing event. The question here is: How can you stop something that cannot be fully defined? And if it is defined, will global governments really come to the rescue of the “other? “An “Early warning System…and a coalition of support”(Rittner, Roth and Smith, (2002) Will Genocide Ever Stop? (Essay) Controlling Genocide in the Twenty-First Century, Herbert Hirsh (pages 131 to 137), may help in some cases of genocide, but changing the human psychology towards indifference, violence, and hate may be the only way to really stop the killing. But this is no easy task either, when religion and even science can be used to excuse this type of crime, to keep the majority in the mind set of hate.
The view “my tribe is better than your tribe“, seems to be somehow ingrained in the human psyche. That we are somehow different, not even the same specie. We must have someone we view as “the other”, who is below us, the scapegoat for all our troubles. Those who start genocidal crimes use this weakens in the human psyche to promote their agendas through propaganda. Dehumanization is one of the key tools to the destruction of a group of people, using their differences from the society around them to show that they are aliens in their own country or region, using pseudo-science and religion to back this up. Categorizing the targeted minority as a threat to the whole, desensitizes the majority, allowing the justified killing of the group, without question. “A common belief of this kind is that all members of a group share a common “essence” – an invisible something that distinguishes the group from other groups and leads to common group characteristics, or at least the tendency to develop these characteristics” (Rittner, Roth and Smith, (2002) Will Genocide Ever Stop? (Essay) Psychological Foundations, Clark McCauley, Page 77-82). Leaders in genocidal acts will use all available tools to spread the hate that enables them to commit their crimes, keeping the psychology of hate into play. During World War II Hitler and the Nazi Party used old prejudges and myths towards the Jews to label them as the dangerous outsiders, who threatened the Christian German Aryan majority in Germany. Jews were labeled as an impure race that needed to be eliminated; images of vermin (rats and cockroaches) were used as propaganda symbols. Old religious myths were also brought into political play; Jews were labeled as Christ killers, which meant as a group they all most suffer, their Christian neighbors had a duty to make this so. The myth from the 1st century of what is called Blood Libel, “the claim that Jews kill gentiles motivated by ritual/demonic impulses”(Dennis, Rabbi Geoffrey W. (2007) The Encyclopedia Of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism, Page 36 to 37), also was used in Nazi propaganda. All these psychological tools of hate increased the hatred and fear of the Jews in Germany, the rest of Europe, and the world during this time, closing borders to Jews and any hope of escaping the nightmare. This type of propaganda plays on our need to have “the other” to fear and hate. In Rwanda the Hutus used faulty pseudo-science and pseudo-anthropological research to prove that the Tutsis were another race or even another species from themselves. The Tutsi were labeled as being something less than the Hutus, “the other”, who had to carry different identification cards. This goes back to the human mind set saying “my tribe is better than you’re tribe.” Charismatic leaders play on this mind set to pull the majority into the crime, making them believe that it is being done for them out of care, for the good of the majority. That it must not be stopped, because it is saving them from the invisible “Boogie Man”, the enemy, that their leader preaches about and that faulty religion and science proves as some type of evil threat to their group.
Perpetrators of genocidal crimes also rely on putting their victims into a never ending psychology of fear, humiliation, and guilt. Labeling a group of people with something different than the majority (like identification cards, symbols or special laws that only pertains to them), can affect the victims psychologically. Torture (including rape), starvation, slave labor and public executions also are used to wear down and destroy the targeted group or groups, to break their spirits, minds and destroy their bodies. The victims may live in such fear that they just shut down emotionally, and may give up completely. Others may even start believing that something is truly different and wrong about themselves, and that the perpetrators are right in some way. After living through such inhumanity the crime of genocide goes on in the surviving victim’s psyche. The individual may feel humiliation from being raped or tortured themselves or watching this done to others and not being able to do anything, blaming themselves for being weak physically or spiritually, when in reality they could do nothing. They may have flash backs of the horrors they have seen and experienced, and have survivor’s guilt. Post-traumatic stress syndrome, phobias, drug and alcohol problems, and other emotional and mental problems may affect the victim for the rest of their lives. Genocide and its crimes live on in the survivors minds and bodies and the souls of the dead that it leaves in its destructive path. But human beings ignore even those that have lived through it and their experiences, repeating it over and over again. The cry for “never again,” seems to be ignored by the global community. Indifference and hate goes on in the world, though human beings have witness such horrors, we do nothing to stop the next tragedy. We ignore real science, which proves the human race is all connected genetically and biologically, inside we are all made the same, blood, bone and tissue of the same human DNA. We are all creatures that need love and safety, to be mentally and physically healthy. We also ignore the religions around the world, who all speak of loving your neighbors, your follow human beings. That killing another human being is an abomination to humanity and the Universal Soul.
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