White Supremacy

Man Convicted Of Decapitating Professor To Join White Supremacist Group

AP | DAVE KOLPACK | Posted 04.24.2012

COOPERSTOWN, N.D. — A North Dakota man was convicted Tuesday of shooting and beheading a university researcher in what prosecutors claimed was a...

The Hurtful Legacy of Herman Cain's "Suspended," "Brother From Another Mother" Presidential Campaign

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.04.2012

Ronald B. Robinson

For a sustained period, Cain was the GOP candidate who most successfully stimulated the nostalgia for the good ole days of the "great communicator," Ronald Reagan, among "the base."

John Rudolf

Notorious Ex-Klan Leader Arrested in Germany

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 11.30.2011

David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, white supremacist and Louisiana politician, was arrested and taken into custody in Cologne on Friday, prio...

Civil Rights Education 'Dismal' Across The Country

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 11.30.2011

"Dismal." Likely not a word ever preferred in an educational setting, but the description the Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to ass...

Brother Of Murder Suspect Claims Nazi Books And Iron Cross Were His

AP | Posted 10.10.2011

LOS ANGELES — A police detective insists a California teenager charged in the shooting death of his gay classmate was influenced by a local stre...

Is Tribalism on the Increase?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

Daniel Cubias

When I was a college student, I worked at the student newspaper. I was a longhaired, hard-drinking journalist -- a Woodward and/or Bernstein in traini...

Dedrick Muhammad | Posted 05.25.2011

Dedrick Muhammad

I have been waiting for some discussion linking the not so subtle politics of the film Avatar with the serious political critique of whiteness.

Hate Group Backs High Profile Candidates

Gabe Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Gabe Gonzalez

If we as Americans have a responsibility to protect our freedoms and to protect the freedoms of others, then calling attention to hate speech and repudiating racists is just the tip of the iceberg.

Free Speech. Hate Speech.

Shira Tarrant | Posted 05.25.2011

Shira Tarrant

Hate-speech, hate-motivated violence, and gender-based crime can incite widespread fear, frustration, isolation, and anger, even among those who are not directly victimized.

Tea Party Is No Way to Commemorate April 19

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

Abby L. Ferber

Today is the 15 year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. As we reflect back upon the horror of that day, we should simultaneously reflect upon the current threats of domestic terrorism facing our nation.

Paul Schlesselman: Obama Assassination Plotter Gets 10-Year Prison Sentence

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

JACKSON, Tenn. — A white supremacist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama an...

Did a White Sheriff and District Attorney Orchestrate a Race-Based Coup in a Northern Louisiana Town?

Jordan Flaherty | Posted 05.25.2011

Jordan Flaherty

In Waterproof, Louisiana, the African American mayor and police chief assert that they have been forced from office and arrested as part of an illegal coup carried out by an alliance of white politicians.

The Legacy of White Christian Chauvinism in Arizona's Ethnic Studies Bill

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011

Leonce Gaiter

Mainstream Christianity rests on the belief in an historical Jesus. By any American standards, this living, breathing man would have been classified as "white" -- swarthy yes, but white.

Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

White People "Passing": John Mayer, Racism and The Arrogance Of Whiteness

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011

Molly Secours

At what point will we accept that without an intentional, determined commitment to disrupt our own internalized racism and the lingering effects of white supremacy, we will continue to replicate and reinforce the demonization and diminishment of non-whites.

An Open Letter to Mark Lilla: Yes, We Should Take the Right Seriously

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 05.25.2011

Leonard Zeskind

Palin's anti-elite style embodied a particular form of nationalism that abjured both elites and the "undeserving" poor. It is precisely this nationalism that animates Tea Partiers today.

Obama Can't Talk About Race Even If He Wants To

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The bitter truth is that President Obama can't talk about race even if he wants to. This has absolutely nothing to do with his mixed racial upbringing, or his straddling of many worlds. It has everything to do with politics

'Whites are People Too': Why Some White People are Stating the Obvious

Carol M. Swain | Posted 05.25.2011

Carol M. Swain

Hadassah's is one of many such e-mails I have received over the years from whites who confess to having been raised in liberal democratic- homes, but who are now flirting with white nationalism.

Mediocre Grade for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Latest Report

Carol M. Swain | Posted 05.25.2011

Carol M. Swain

Instead of providing readers with a systematic analysis and hard data supporting its warning about a growing threat, the SPLC's report was chocked full of vague generalities and unnamed sources.

Media Gives Hate-Mongering White Supremacist Airtime, Facetime and Helpful PR

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Rachel Sklar

This is unbelievable. In last night's "NBC Nightly News," Pete Williams had a segment on the Holocaust Museum shooter, James von Brunn, and they prese...

Glenn Beck Spins the Holocaust Museum Shooting

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Joseph A. Palermo

Somewhere behind Beck's talking points there is real thinking going on. No one should dismiss Beck as a hack or "entertainer." He is a propagandist.

What White Supremacists Are Saying Today About Holocaust Museum Gunman

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Greg Mitchell

I visited, for the first time, the site of Stormfront, the major white nationalist/neo-Nazi hate site. The postings are mainly critical of his actions, as they hurt the cause. Here's some of the flavor.

Mr. Obama Disagrees

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Jenkins

Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is dreadful. His explanation is even worse. He shrinks Warren's statements about gay people down to a "disagreement," as if we're talking about ethanol subsidies.

Nazis Need Birthday Cakes, Too

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

Disgrasian

All the Campbell's wanted was a birthday cake for their little Aryan, Adolf Hitler, who turned 3 last week. But, sadly, they just don't teach cake-writing in white supremacy class anymore.

After the Election

Mark Potok | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Potok

After 250 years of slavery, a century of Jim Crow laws, and a legacy of racial terror that includes the lynching of thousands of African Americans, Am...