The white supremacist movement

[shenmue]

BBC story here

BBC article on the growth of the racist pathology.

[blm]

1. Some of us have been saying so for a long time now.

Don't think for a second that the GOP and corporate media mainstreaming the racist hatred of Obama isn't a key reason in the growth of their movement AND in the record sales of guns.

[99th_Monkey]

2. FBI: White Supremacists have been infiltrating Police Departments for awhile now

http://thegrio.com/2015/05/12/fbi-white-supremacists-law-enforcement/

[HassleCat]

3. Up and down

These things seem to ebb and flow. I attribute much of the recent growth in "southern identity groups" as a byproduct of Tea Party type activity, and resentment about electing a black president. If you look at the years since the Civil War, there are peaks and valleys, but the overall trend has been downward, in spite of some frightening outbreaks. The Klan is pretty much gone, and the Aryan Nations groups can' get on TV right now. Their best effort seems to be a bunch of crazy websites and flying big confederate flags. It looks to me like they're in their waning hours, desperately trying to hang on. I hope so, anyway.

[shenmue]

4. I wish I were that confident

[ladjf]

5. White Supremacy is largely believed by white men. Read some of Malcolm X's speeches for more

in depth comment about that.

[octoberlib]

6. They're on the rise. South Carolina alone is home to 19 of them.

Violence from “far right” extremists is one of the top threats singled out by law enforcement agencies polled by the New York Times last year. Pointing that out was so politically fraught that Daryl Johnson, an expert in right wing terrorist groups left the Department of Homeland Security in 2010 after it dissolved his team, Wired reports.

“There’ve been no hearings about the rising white supremacist threat, but there’s been a long list of attacks over the last few years,” he told Wired. “But they still hold hearings about Muslim extremism. It’s out of balance.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/south-carolina-is-home-to-at-least-19-known-hate-groups/
























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