I don't know yet whether I want Barack Obama as President of the United States. I do know that I worry about him. That the U.S. Secret Service has decided to provide security is a relief, especially in light of Senator Durbin's comments:
The decision followed recommendations from Obama's colleagues in Congress, including Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who had reviewed, among other things, racist Web postings and letters.
"Unfortunately, many of the things that concerned me had a lot to do with race," Durbin said last week. "I wish we lived in a country where that is not a problem, but it still is. And the fact that Barack Obama is such a highly visible African-American candidate, I think, increases his vulnerability."
While national surveys suggest the country is willing to elect a qualified black president, the rising tensions so early in the campaign suggest a disquieting side.
Remember Illinoisan Matt Hale and his World Church of the Creator? The guy who tried to have a judge assassinated, and whose follower killed two people and wounded nine in a shooting spree targeting minorities after his hero Hale was denied a license to practice law?
Hale's in jail and he lost the right to use the WCOTC name as a result of a copyright infringement lawsuit, but that doesn't mean his church has faded away. "RaHoWa"--"Racial Holy War"--is carried on by members of the innocuously-named Creativity Movement.
The Five Fundamental Beliefs
To be memorized and repeated as a sacred religious ritual by every Creator five times a day. Based on the Eternal Laws of Nature, History, Logic and Common Sense, we Creators believe:
WE BELIEVE that our Race is our Religion.
WE BELIEVE that the White Race is Nature's finest.
WE BELIEVE that racial loyalty is the greatest of all honors, and racial treason is the worst of all crimes.
WE BELIEVE that what is good for the White Race is the highest virtue, and what is bad for the White Race is the ultimate sin.
WE BELIEVE that the one and only, true and revolutionary White Racial Religion - Creativity - is the only salvation for the White Race.
To the fulfillment of these religious beliefs, we Creators forever pledge our Lives, our Sacred Honor, and our Religious Zeal.
Creativity has 16 Commandments, one of which includes a prohibition against "employing n*****s and other coloreds."
Then there's the New Century Foundation, which publishes a magazine called American Renaissance. AmRen practices what is called "genteel racism," although a recent reprint of an article titled, "The Truth of Interracial Rape in the United States"--a mass of statistics tortured almost unto death to force a "confession"--attracted less-than-genteel feedback.
Black men are drawn to white women. They want us, whether or not we want them. The disgusting reality is that black men think they have a right to "some of that" whether or not we want to give it to them. You know I'm right, as is every other poster on this thread.
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The fact is that segregation was good for all of us. We just didn't try hard enough to make it work. We gave up too soon. The black community was better off with segregation because you all were forced to take care of your own, to work for a living, and those that didn't were shunned or cared for by your own. You all had jobs that you could do, not three digit IQ jobs that you've all messed up now. And yes, Kev, there are exceptions, but not enough to make a difference for either your people or my people. Don't agree? Give specific examples to prove your point.
Think about it Kev. You come from a 2 digit IQ continent where strife, poverty, bloodshed, rape, murder, disease, etc. is rampant. Even today-it's not better than it was 50-100 years ago. If anything, it's worse. We are a 3 digit IQ people from a three digit IQ continent. Why in the world would we be expected to mingle happily and peacefully?
These racist organizations operate right here in Illinois. So do White Revolution, which has a mission of promoting cooperation between white supremacist groups, and American Thule Society, which admits that the contents of its websites "may have politically incorrect overtones."
Nationwide, there are currently 844 identified hate groups, according to the 2006 Intelligence Report published by the Southern Poverty Law Center--a jump of 40% since 2000.
Although some of this increase arises from an explosion of racist anti-immigration groups such as the Minuteman Project, another important reason for the growth is a combined current tendency toward tolerance of intolerant speech along with conscientious efforts of some of these groups to position themselves as mainstream, as I've chronicled before.
Admittedly, "white power" groups are floundering just a bit at the moment.
Last year's hate group growth came despite continuing disarray on the neo-Nazi scene, with various relatively weak groups vying for dominance; a series of embarrassments including the arrests of two key leaders; the deaths of many stalwarts of the white supremacist old guard; signs of a splintering skinhead alliance; and the absence of any single major group working to unify the others.
But I ask you, what could unify them more than a razor-sharp focus on a black candidate for president?
So I worry.
[Cross-posted at PrairieStateBlue, hence the references to Illinois.]