Why It is "Right" to Reject Racism

Why It is "Right" to Reject Racism



by Jeffrey Imm

June 24, 2009

Responsible for Equality And
Liberty (R.E.A.L.)


http://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/right-to-reject-racism/


http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/141.html



Racial supremacism is based on one idea:

institutionalized hate. Hate has no boundaries of color, no
boundaries of ethnicity, no regional boundaries, no religious
boundaries, and no political boundaries.



In our political spectrum of ideas, laws, and policies there is nothing
inherently oriented with a political spectrum that allows it to accept
and promote racial supremacism. There is nothing inherently "right-wing"
or "left-wing" about racial supremacism, which is based on
institutionalized hate.


But there are some who seem determined to define the "right" as
legitimizing, tolerating, and even supporting racial supremacism, and it
is past time that others who view themselves as "right-wing" or
"conservative" challenge this.



I will point out two such groups that I previously referenced in

my May 2009 article on the need to have a human
rights priority in defending equality and liberty. Unfortunately,
these groups are not the only ones. But for those who are
responsible for equality and
liberty, it is our responsibility to be consistent in challenging
those groups that seek to paint "the right-wing" (or any part of
political spectrum) as inherently accepting of racism. We must
deny those who seek a political disguise for
racial supremacism.



On June 20, 2009, in McLean, Virginia, a group called

"The American Cause" held a conference at the Ritz-Carlton.

I was there - outside - protesting an individual with
an organization called the
"VDARE Foundation" who was scheduled to speak at this conference -

Peter Brimelow. The VDARE Foundation
has been
listed as a "white nationalist" hate group by the Southern Poverty
Law Center (SPLC), a designation that
Peter Brimelow states that he is "proud" to have.



On the VDARE web site,
President Obama has most recently been
described
as the "Half-Blood Prince" by VDARE author Steven Sailer;
Peter
Brimelow praises this as part of "Steve's scholarly interest in
racial differences." VDARE's Sailer has used the website for a
litany of articles
regarding race, including articles focusing on issues such as the
IQ of black Americans, "white guilt," "race denial," endless articles on
"minority mortgage meltdown," "Anti-White Discrimination,"
"Anti-White Populism," and "On What The
Census Bureau's Projected White Minority Will Mean For America."
VDARE's Sailer has
has called Barack Obama a "wigger," and VDARE's Peter Brimelow
calls Sailer a "genius." VDARE defends
"white separatist" Jared Taylor as someone who once would have been
"called an American patriot."



On June 11, 2009, the day after the

Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting in Washington DC by accused
gunman Von Brunn, VDARE's Peter
Brimelow posted an article -- not condemning the
racial and religious hatred documented in Von Brunn's writings and
actions -- but condemning those who seek to prevent hate
crimes. In
Peter Brimelow's view, "drunk-driving immigrants, especially
Mexicans," are no different than those committing hate crimes based on
their institutionalized hate. On June 11, 2009, while many, including
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), were

mourning the death of brave black security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns,
who died preventing Von Brunn from committing even a greater loss of
life at the Holocaust Memorial Museum,
VDARE's
Peter Brimelow was only focused on condemning those who seek to
prevent future hate crimes.



VDARE's
Peter Brimelow concluded his article by asking: "The real
question about the Holocaust Memorial Museum shootings: what drove James
von Brunn, by all accounts an intelligent man who served his country
honorably in World War II, to this terrible end?"

What type of organization views an individual accused of terrorist
murder, with a

history of racial supremacism, linked to neo-Nazis, and a

history of Holocaust denial -- as "an intelligent man" --

the very day after his attack on innocent people?



But none of this was enough to discourage

"The American Cause" from having VDARE's Peter Brimelow as a
featured speaker at their McLean, Virginia conference. Not VDARE's
listing
as a "white nationalist" "hate group," not VDARE's
"pride"
in that designation, not VDARE's
articles
on "white nationalism," not VDARE's
racial
slurs
against Barack Obama, not VDARE's
defense of a "white
separatist," and not even when VDARE's
Peter
Brimelow states that accused Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter Von
Brunn is "an intelligent man." "The American Cause" featured Peter
Brimelow as a speaker in McLean, Virginia, just 13 miles away from Von
Brunn's terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ten days
earlier.



Moreover, what are elected public officials, such as

Hazleton, Pennsylvania's mayor Louis Barletta doing on the same
stage with VDARE's Peter Brimelow?



To those who want to defend Mr. Brimelow's agenda as merely challenging
illegal immigration, I invite you to see the type of writing and hate on
VDARE's web site. Those of
us responsible for equality and
liberty must challenge those whose institutionalized hate is the
very basis for hate crimes such as the Holocaust Memorial Museum attack
on June 10. It is, in fact, the failure to consistently do so and to
to implore those
who support hate to drop this burden from their hearts and
share
our love for humanity - that is the real basis for hate crimes. It
is all of our responsibility to ask those who would support hate to
change their ways, and respect their fellow human beings.



Most of all, for those who view themselves as "right-wing" or
"conservative," there is a responsibility to address this issue from
those who seek to define

institutionalized hate as "right-wing" when really it is only
just hate. We must never allow those who promote institutionalized hate
to gain legitimacy as political advocates.



A similar case can be seen in Lawrence Auster's
"View From the Right" (VFR)
blog. As I mentioned in my

article in May, "nativist" Lawrence Auster is also greatly concerned
about the racial dimensions to crime,

focusing on "interracial rape," On his blog postings,
Mr. Auster
has listed his supporters to include one individual who praises his
work along with the American Renaissance and VDARE web sites for its
support of "critical thinking." (This was posted by
Auster himself, not merely a "comments" section.) Like
VDARE, the
American Renaissance organization is
listed as
a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In February
2009, Mr. Auster attended a conference in Baltimore, Maryland called

"Preserving Western Civilization," reportedly modeled after similar conferences
by the American Renaissance organization with some speakers that have
also

reportedly attended American Renaissance conferences.



One of Lawrence Auster's preoccupations is regarding
"Black and
other nonwhite violence against whites," where he has an entire
category of articles on topics such as
"Black
savagery, white acceptance," and where Lawrence Auster
seeks to
educate us that "Whites' mistake is that they think blacks are
rational, and so they admit them as equal participants in discussion"
(also see
article). Lawrence Auster
who calls
himself a "racialist,"
condemns the
1964 Civil Rights Act, stating that "in passing the Act, white
America in effect admitted that it was responsible and guilty for black
inferiority."



"Racialist" Lawrence Auster states that he represents a
"View From the Right" This
week, Mr. Auster's "View From the
Right" condemns that
"In Britain,
the strong are as cowardly about race as the weak." It also
addresses
the recent tragic subway accident in Washington DC.



As many of you know on Monday, June 22, there was tragic subway accident
in Washington DC where nine people died, including one of the operators
of one of the subway cars. What you probably don't know (and couldn't
have possibly thought it mattered) was the race of one of the subway car
operators in that accident.

But to "racialist" Lawrence Auster it does matter. So
the next day (June 23) while the investigation into the tragic accident
was just beginning,
"racialist"
Lawrence Auster already had the answer - a
photograph on
his VFR blog of the subway operator who died, Jeanice McMillan, showing
that she was black with Auster's comment under her photograph:
"Jeanice McMillan - Were standards lowered to hire her?"



As many of you also know, the initial investigation of the accident has
shown that the

subway operator used the emergency brake, and the

train cars were outdated; the

investigation is still ongoing. But to the "racialist" crowd, there
is always a ready answer to the problems of the world to be found in the
institutionalized hatred of racial supremacism. The bodies of the
DC subway crash weren't even buried, and
"racialist"
Lawrence Auster already had the answer by blaming a black woman.

Have you read any criticism about either
Peter
Brimelow's or
Lawrence
Auster's recent comments? I didn't think so.



The real question is will conservative and right-wing groups be silent
about
racial supremacist organizations that seek to portray themselves as
the voice of "the right" - or will they reject such groups'

institutionalized hate as something that does not deserve political
legitimacy of any kind?



In America today, we need a view from the right that is responsible for
equality and liberty and challenges institutionalized hate. We need
those who identify themselves as "conservative" and "right-wing" to
challenge those who seek to redefine the "right" as promoting
"racialism." It is past time to stop ignoring and starting challenging
those who seek to gain political legitimacy for institutionalized hate.



We need a lot more people to actively recognize that it is "right"
to reject racism.



Love Wins.