It's Alright 'Cause It's All White

Good freaking Lord. Big ups to JC Christian, Patriot, over at Patriotboy for pointing out this unfathomable story...

It seems a Fox network affiliate in South Carolina has run a puff piece on...Stormfront.org. I've written about Stormfront extensively before. In fact, I wrote my Master's Thesis on Stormfront and sites of its ilk. They peddle the ugliest possible form of open racism imaginable. Sure, sure, it's all cloaked in "white racial pride" and all that stuff, but the site all but encourages violence against minorities. (When I was doing my research a few years ago, Stormfront had links to a video game in which you were encouraged to shoot at Mexican immigrants and Jews on the city streets). It even has a special section to indoctrinate young racists by teaching them that Martin Luther King was a womanizing pagan.

These guys are the crazed racist idiots that you kind of hope only exist in cheesy movies. You remember that John Grisham movie, A Time To Kill, when Samuel L. Jackson plays the dad who kills the two racist white guys that raped his daughter? Kurtwood Smith (Red Forman from "That 70's Show") plays this way over the top KKK guy? Remember that? "We got us some good god-fearin' Klan..." When I saw that movie, I thought that was just a stupid stereotype with no basis in contemporary reality. In the last decade or so, I've discovered that it's actually how these backwards-ass redneck idiots think...

Anyway, the Fox channel has since taken down their article, but it's still visible through the magic of Google caching. This is a full-length feature/human interest story on a virulently racist website. Why? Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?

It's a web site with everything from dating advice and homemaking threads, to discussion boards that focus on news that white activists want to know. Stormfront.org is a web site founded on the belief that the white race is a dying race.

Well, aw shucks.

Can you imagine starting an article about a white power website in this kind of folksy, featury manner? It's offensive. What if they were writing about NAMBLA?

"It's a website with everything from dating advise and Jesus-Juice preparation tips to discussion boards that focus on the news boy-lovers want to know. NAMBLA.org is a web site founded on the belief that there's nothing wrong with grown men dating small children."

Inappropriate.

One member says, "we really are just white folks that deeply care about preserving a future for our progeny."

Why would any self-respecting journalist go to such pains to present the white supremecist perspective so boldly, up front, without question? Are we to simply assume FOX Carolina is an organization dedicated to advancing the causes of the white power movement?

Bob Whitaker is a former Reagan administration cabinet member and an active member of Stormfront. He believes diversity and equal rights are at the center of a conspiracy against the white race. Whitaker says, "I'm worried about the disappearance of the white race."

Whitaker says too much is being done to diversify America and not enough is being done to protect people like him. "I'm worried about 2 things. I'm worried about the disappearance of the white race and I'm worried about the fact that no one is allowed to talk about the disappearance of the white race, which is even worse."

Okay, thus far, I have seen a lot of Stormfront opinions being aired, and no opposing viewpoints. We've heard that they are "white activists," that they are concerned about the future of their children, that their ranks include a Reagan cabinet member, that they are afraid of an encroaching conspiracy against them...but nothing about how they are violent, angry racists. No one at the ADL or the NAACP or the Southern Poverty Law Center was answering their phones that day?

(Also, I'm very amused by Whitaker's dumbass quote. He's saying that there's a problem - the disappearance of the white race - and no one is willing to talk about this problem. But then he says that the fact that no one will talk about the problem is worse than the problem itself. What? I mean, how can no one discussing a problem be worse than that very problem in the first place? Would Whitaker be willing to concede the disapperance of all white people, so long as we all agreed to discuss it openly?)

Okay, this next sentence is the only point that the article will make that could even vaguely be considered anti-Stormfront:

But all Americans are provided equal protection under the law, which means equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.

Yes? And?

That's it? Yeah, that's it. So, okay, yeah, the very basis of this organization flies in the face of established U.S. law and custom. Let's move on to the interesting stuff...like the racist's love of Charles Lindbergh!

Jamie Kelso is one of Stormfront's senior moderators. He uses the screen name Charles A. Lindbergh, a well-known aviator who believed in the preservation of the white race. Kelso says, "I admire Charles Lindbergh as someone who throughout his life took pride in the white race and was very concerned about preserving it."

Neat!

Even though Stormfront was created by former Ku Klux Klansman Don Black, Kelso says their message isn't one of hate. "We're called anti-Semitic, we're called neo-Nazi, we're called racist [but] we're none of that." Instead, Stormfront members say their message is much more simple. "We don't hate anybody. The only thing we're concerned with is that 100 years from now, 500 years from now that there will actually be the kind of white neighborhoods and white nations that our parents and ancestors gave to us."

Note how obviously the author takes on Stormfront's perspective as his/her own. "Even though Stormfront was created by former KKK...members say their message is much more simple..." Add that to the fact that every paragraph reads like it could have been taken from a Stormfront PR brochure, and you get a very one-sided, downright offensive article.

And the last paragraph is probably the worst part:

Kelso says Stormfront simply provides a safe forum for people to use without fear of retaliation. "Really the political correctness today, you could even call it vicious. On the Internet you can anonymously talk to other people and open up and say what you want to say. This has really opened up a new chance for people to have free speech."

See, they're not racists. They're First Amendment Martyrs! What's your problem, everyone? The Fox News department just wants everyone to have their say, except pornographers and anyone who dislikes Christmas and anti-war activists!