Hate Sites Recruiting Tools
HOW TO COMBAT HATE AND TRAGEDY
[ ... Prejudice are evolved threat responses that do not always allow people to operate effectively in the modern world.] [ ... There's this old Arab saying that goes something like My brother and I fight, but if my neighbor comes over and picks on my brother, my brother and I fight against my neighbor. But if someone from another neighborhood comes over and picks on my neighbor, the three of us fight against him. And so on out the expanding circle of we-ness. Humans of all stripes might get along great if the Martians attacked.
Is that the ultimate solution to this problem of prejudice? Martians attacking?
No. We'd just hate them and other extraterrestrial aliens.] ~ Steven Neuberg
TEACH CHARACTER EDUCATION - What does it mean to be an educated person?
World Trade Center Crisis Curriculum
THERE WERE MANY WARS ON TERROR INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
FIRST War on Terror
'Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy' Mar. 13, 2006 referred to as "America's darkest hour."
Indians, Historians, Celebrities Recount Shameful Era In New Documentary: 'Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy' -- on the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Adolph Hitler studied President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and that "American Holocaust" before attempting to eradicate Europe's Jews. Story research, development and production
took almost a full decade to get the highly endorsed, critically accurate educational film to the screen. Wes Studi, the best known Cherokee actor, presents the documentary film, speaking on camera in his native tongue (with subtitles). Noted actor James Earl
Jones, who is of blended African and Cherokee heritage, narrates.
"Uniquely, a Cherokee is recounting this shameful chapter in American history," said Steven R. Heape, Executive Producer and a Citizen of the Cherokee
Nation.This is no 'Hollywoodization' of an American holocaust. The Trail of Tears actually drove the Five Civilized Tribes -- Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Chickasaw and Muscogee Creek -- from their native lands." "The Jacksonian policy led to a brutal, cross country tre in which nearly a quarter of the tribal citizens, died from hunger, exposure, disease and sheer exhaustion," Richie noted."My reason for wanting to accurately tell this story goes back to the day in
1985 when I received my tribal citizenship. My Uncle Gene Heape of Dallas sat me down and told me the story of the Trail of Tears. In proper Cherokee culture, this was his responsibility and is 'the way' in which younger Cherokees learn the true story of our people.
"We are the One's we've been waiting for" ~ Hopi Elders
Second War On Terror - KKK
The campaign against Al Qaeda and its allies is not the United States’ first war on terror. In the American South during the aftermath of the Civil War, a terrorist organization emerged. Cloaked in ghostly disguise, it sought to murder and maim in the dead of night as it set out to impose its ideological agenda. For several years the governmental response was ineffectual. Finally, in 1871, the U.S. Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant took action and initiated a new policy in South Carolina. 1871 Oct 12, President Grant condemned the Ku Klux Klan. (MC, 10/12/01)
1871 Sep 18, President Abraham Lincoln's body was interred at Springfield, Il. (MC, 9/18/01)
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Florida's Current State Song in 2006 find the Code of Culture.
- RED NECK'S & CRACKERS, CULTURE OF HONOR
- ORIGIN OF THE KKK - Ku Klux Klan
- KKK - Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, 1871
"Following the Civil War, the federal government brought newly freed people into the political and economic sphere through a variety of efforts known as Radical Reconstruction. But planters, unwilling to lose control over African-American laborers, attempted to rule the South through violence and legal and economic intimidation. The secret terrorist organization the Ku Klux Klan was part of the violent white reaction to Reconstruction. Founded by Confederate veterans in Tennessee in 1866, Klan nightriders targeted black veterans and freedmen who had left their employers and those who had succeeded in breaking out of the plantation system. African Americans who transgressed local norms of white supremacy were in particular danger as the testimony from Maria Carter and others at these 1871 Congressional hearings about the Klan made clear. Klan leaders often were prominent planters and their family members - while poorer men made up the rank and file." Congress in an attempt to check the Klan, introduced a series of measures called the Third Enforcement Act on the Ku Klux Klan (1871). This act gave the President the power to declare martial law in any state and send armed forces to crush any conspiracy. Due to this act, federal troops were sent to the south quite often. - Lyndon Baines Johnson Library recently has released tapes and transcripts of phone conversations about the 1964 abduction and murder of three civil rights activists. The result is real-life insight into the tragedy and a glimpse into American history. The recordings were made in June 1964, a crucial time for the Civil Rights movement. President Johnson was just a few votes shy in the Senate of passing landmark legislation that would ensure the right to vote among African-Americans and prohibit segregation in public places.
Jun. 23, 2005 Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen to the maximum 60 years in prison for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers. The three men Killen was convicted of killing - black Mississippian James Chaney and white New Yorkers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman - were beaten and shot by a gang of Klansmen, their bodies buried in an earthen dam. - About Morris Dees - The Saga Of A True American Hero The Southern Poverty Law Center has monitored hate groups since 1971.
Morris Dees wrote "Little had changed in the South. Whites held the power and had no intention of voluntarily sharing it. . . . "I had made up my mind. I would sell the company as soon as possible and specialize in civil rights law,". "All the things in my life that had brought me to this point, all the pulls and tugs of my conscience, found a singular peace. It did not matter what my neighbors would think, or the judges, the bankers, or even my relatives."
From this decision made on a cold winter's night in 1967 came the Southern Poverty Law Center.
* The largest judgment ever awarded against a hate group was the 37.9 million dollar settlement the Southern Poverty Law Center won against the Christian Knights of Ku Klux Klan for conspiracy to burn a black church.
* They also won a one million dollar judgment against a Klan group known as the Invisible Empire.
Neo-Confederate Movement
Conservative columnists do work with Neo-Confederate organizations in attacking groups. Neo-Confederates are showing up at appearances of Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center and security have had to throw them out.
Civil War &Reconstruction movie that will challenge your notions of myth, memory and the making of Civil War History.
In Dec of 1860 Southern slave holding states secede from the American Union. A Confederacy is declared, a southern government and president are formed, igniting a Civil War. After numerous bloody battles, the outcome of the war for the South is in peril--until an alliance is secured with the French and the British. With these new military allies the Confederacy is able to rout the North. By April of 1865 the Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant surrenders to Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army. The South thus wins the Civil War, and the Confederate States of America is born.
In this faux documentary by Kevin Willmott, produced by Spike Lee, and cast as a British production, the repercussions of a fictional reality where the South wins the Civil War are examined. Using both dark humor/parody and actual historical circumstances, Willmott creates a bizarre--yet at times disturbingly familiar--world where the South is victorious, slavery persists into the 21st Century, and a powerful yet eroding America is bent on Empire.
With an innovative timeline of events--from the signing of the 13th Amendment making slavery fully lawful to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy who attempted to end slavery--Wilmott creates an alternate reality that is at once humorous yet frightening. Film footage from our own history are seamlessly blended into the "mockumentary," giving it an authentic feel even in its absurdity. Parodies like the Slave Shopping Network and a television reality show called RUNAWAY (based on our own COPS) will make you laugh and shake your head at the same time. Ingeniously false commercials inserted throughout the production tackle varied real life issues in American society, from the attack on civil liberties to portrayals of blacks in the media. The C.S.A. is a look not only at the real Southern Confederacy, but a reflection on our own America, our history, our current culture, how we deal with race, foreign policy, rights, freedoms, etc.
In the end it may make you question, who exactly in our own reality *actually* won the Civil War?
This film was completed in 2004, but is now being picked up by the IFC. Screenings are occurring throughout the US.
Organizations
Hate Sites Bad Recruiting Tools
Online hate is as much a part of the Web as e-commerce, porn sites, and portals. From neo-Nazis and skinheads to the Ku Klux Klan, almost every hate group in America has its own website.
But some hate-watchers say that, contrary to conventional wisdom, these groups' aggressive Internet strategy has not paid off.
It's resulted in greater public scrutiny with no measurable increase in influence.
"There are no statistics showing increase in membership because of the Internet," said David Goldman, president of HateWatch, a nonprofit group that monitors online hate. "Groups are moving away from the idea of constructing these huge Web pages that have very little payback."
The actual number of hate sites is in itself open to debate. Estimates can range anywhere between 400 to 1,200.
"Different groups have different ways of counting," said Anti-Defamation League spokesman Jordan Kessler said. "(The definition) can include hardcore, white supremacy sites or just a page filled with insensitive jokes."
The count can also vary when one domain name, such as Stormfront.org, hosts Web pages from a variety of groups.
Whatever the estimate, there is general agreement that the number of hate sites has increased rapidly in recent years. And some anti-hate organizations say it reflects the growing influence of racist groups.
For example, an advertisement funded by the Simon Wiesenthal Center reads, "On the day of the Oklahoma bombing, there was one hate site. Now there are over 2,000."
"We meant it as a wake-up call," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean at the center, said.
Goldman argues the Internet has increased the visibility of hate groups, but not their power. In fact, the heightened attention has instead been more of a burden than a boon for these once-secretive groups.
"It's been extremely bad for hate groups," he said. "They've been exposed, scrutinized, and poked at."
Hate groups have always relied on anonymity and secrecy to keep their activities hidden from the public eye, he said. "But the Internet is now publicizing their every move."
Other civil rights advocates say the extra publicity is not much of a drawback. "Hate groups love the attention, even when it's negative," Kessler said. "The reason they come into the white movement is because they want to be famous."
But Kessler agrees the added publicity may not necessarily translate into greater numbers.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the membership of hate groups has remained about the same over the past few years. Despite the rhetoric about the global reach of the Internet, there has not been any measurable increase in recruitment.
"The most effective way to recruit someone is in person. You need to be face-to-face," Goldman said. "We have a long way to go before we can replicate that online."
Goldman says people who visit hate sites are usually looking for racist material or organizations. "The Internet is not very good at getting that uninterested, uninitiated person to commit to an organization," he said.
Groups such as the ADL and the Wiesenthal Center, however, argue membership is not a good measure of the ominous influence of hate sites.
"People may not join a group, but they may still commit a crime," Kessler said.
Hate groups are now encouraging people who visit their sites and read their material not to join their organizations.
"If someone joins a group and commits a crime, then the whole group gets blamed," Kessler said.
A hate group may then run the risk of facing a lawsuit for aiding a person involved in a hate crime.
For example, Matt Hale, the leader of the World Church of the Creator, is currently being sued for a killing rampage carried out last summer by one of his followers, Benjamin Smith.
The sites instead are beginning to promote "lone wolf" or "lone shooter" activism, which encourages individuals to go out and act on their own.
"It's important to recognize that although we don't have any hard numbers, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence," Kessler said.
He says most of the killers involved in recent mass murders, from the Columbine incident to the killing spree in Pittsburgh last month, came into the hate movement via the Web.
"These killers found validation for their hate and training on the Web," Cooper said. "It's the way for a professional bigot to have his cake and eat it, too."
But Goldman says anti-hate advocates often confuse access with actions. "Just because someone has access to questionable material doesn't mean they're going to act on it," he said.
He points out that most of the bomb-making information has always been readily available. "So they get it on the Internet because they're too lazy to go to the library or the local Barnes and Noble," Goldman said.
But he agrees that the Internet can still be a powerful tool for hate groups. Goldman predicts they will use the Web for more pro-active measures in the future, including harassment, death threats, and even hacking.
"People often underestimate these groups," he said. "These guys are more technologically sophisticated than most people. They're not good old boys with gun racks."
- Media Awareness ONLINE HATE
- Media Literacy -Tracking an Internet hoax, learn to Evaluate News on the Internet
4,000 Jews, 1 Lie Tracking an Internet hoax. By Bryan Curtis Posted Friday, October 5, 2001
Also see Mediachanel.org and Independent Media - Hate Crime Statistics 2004
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
"Published annually since 1992, Hate Crime Statistics is the byproduct of the joint effort between the FBI and the law enforcement agencies that identify and report hate crimes." This site chronicles thousands of "criminal incidents that law enforcement agencies reported -- as motivated by a bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnicity, or sexual orientation." - The First Amendment Center and U.S. D.O.E. and
- The Shoah Foundation
- Welcome to Nizkor, a collage of projects focused on the Holocaust, or 'Shoah,' and its denial, often referred to as Holocaust "revisionism.", a label we reject out of hand as being misleading and dishonest.
- Anti-Defamation League http://www.adl.org/
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) site provides news of anti-Semitism and the organization's efforts to combat it on a global level. - The Simon Wiesenthal Center
- ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
- Character Education - what does it mean to be an education person.
- HateWatch: Combating and Containing Hate on the Internet is a web-based not for profit organization that monitors the growing and evolving threat of hate groups on the net. David Goldman Executive Director of HateWatch.org Boston says:"HateWatch.org condemns the bigotry that Dr. Laura uses to dehumanize gay men and lesbians. Had similar remarks been made about blacks or Jews, Paramount would never have given her a show."http://www.stopdrlaura.com/
- Teaching Tolerance
- Sundance Video - Barbie Doll - Media Projects
- Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) -
A "non-denominational, educational organization" that provides analysis of contemporary news reports of Israel and the Middle East, with a focus on exposing "anti-Israel propaganda." Access the analyses by name of publication, TV, radio program, journalist, or simply browse through the most recent reports. Find the background of different issues, special reports, and press releases. - National Organization for Women Foundation
1000 16th Street NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 202-331-0066.
More information to come. URL: http://www.protectchoice.org/ - Canadian Human Rights Foundation
Education for Justice, Peace and Development. Justice, Paix et Développement par l'Éducation. Last updated/Page mise-à-jour le: 02/9/98.
Intersection between Cultural Identity and Racist Ideology
There is an attempt to demonstrate ethnic superiority and install ethnic pride.
Hate Songs being sung by "folk groups" at "folk music events" is where you may findcases of groups parading their culture art/music etc. as trophies of their superiority over others.
Many folklorists have researched this, especially in Eastern Europe around WWII. The myth-building aspects of groups, how the group defines itself through its clothes, music, stories, etc., is an area upon which folklorists focus.
Examples:
"European cultural festivals" that this neo-Nazi group has been staging in cities across the U.S.
2002, there was a large gathering in Cleveland, so successful that it essentially boosted its NA organizer into place as successor to the late William Pierce, the group's founder. The most recent event took place in St. Louis on November 9th. I quote from the National Alliance Bulletin:
"The event attracted over 200 people and was quite a success, particularly considering that this was their first event and the publicity for it was quite limited. A delicious buffet dinner was served while an accomplished accordionist treated the audience to traditional European melodies. The program also featured Scottish bagpipers, Scottish Highland dancers, Irish dancers, Scandinavian dancers, and a German Schuplattler dance group. Later in the program a German brass band played for dancing. Many thanks to out to St. Louis Local Unit Coordinator Aaron Collins and the St. Louis Unit for all the hard work and effort they put into making this event a success."
And this notice about a forthcoming Sacramento European Festival: "The Sacramento unit is hosting a European-style festival on February 8th. We have changed the date from January 4th to February 8th in order to give ourselves more time to advertise the event. As it stands, we have confirmed our guest speaker, Dr. Tomislav Sunic, and folk artist Eric Owens. We sill have more updates by the end of this month."
FYI: Eric Ownes is not a "Folk Artist"
Remember Hitler's interest in Native Americans. There is an account of Hitler's men visiting the Tuscarora reservation, to gather research about the U.S. government's removal of Native people.
Culture of Honor
Bryan Palmer explains the connections between charivari, rough music and forerunners of the KKK in American Southern history in a Canadian journal called Labour. There's new scholarship on Klan history, including the role of women in the Klan.
Primarily the KKK hated Catholic, Jewish, Black and Franco-American, French Canadian communities. Roger Abrahams in his classes at Penn on public display events pointed out the CHARIVARI / Klan connections, building on the work of rough music, skimmington, whitecaps, and other related European-American masking traditions and community morality. Learn about the whole concept of rough music and popular justice. Klan was involved in labor disputes (keeping the IWW out of timber camps) and prohibition enforcement. The Klan in El Paso in the 1920s
photographed cars crossing the Mexican border to buy liquor as well. In Augusta County Virginia the Anglophile thing crops up, at about the same time as the Klan. See David Whisnant's chapters on John Powell, Annabelle Morris Buchanon, and the Whitetop Folk Festival. Definite connection between Anglophilia, eugenics, and folk music.
Also connections between Anglophilia and folk music were also expressed in historical pageants in the 1910s and 1920s that combined social reform and dance, and celebrated a revisionist view of the Anglo roots of American culture.
Cambridge was one of the first sites of the English-inspired dance and song revival in America. Cecil Sharp set off from here to "discover" unchanged "Elizabethan" ballads in the southern mountains. A generation later, a museum in Lincoln held "Robin Hood festivals"--the same town where Sharp helped to found the Country Dance and Song Society of America, the New World branch of the English Folk Dance Society that he had founded in 1911.
Also in Cambridge, Harvard playwright Percy MacKaye, a former student of Child's, held a 1917 performance in Harvard Stadium of "Caliban," his classically-draped Shakespeare tercentenary pageant for which Sharp helped script the "Elizabethan" dance interlude, "Sumer is y-cumen in. " Women's colleges like nearby Radcliffe were also involved in pageants and used them either to dramatize political issues such as the campaign for women suffrage or for entertainment, such as celebrating romanticized versions of calendar customs like May Day.
Many of these historical pageants themselves were descended from commemorative re-enactments of the 18th century. Patriots Day, commemorating Battle of
Lexington in 1775 that began the Revolution, reached a climax in 1925 in Lexington, on the battle's 150th anniversary, again at a time of heightened xenophobia.
Stetson Kennedy "The Klan Unmasked" argues that probably the most enduring influence of the Klan is in immigration policy, where they have a continuing and disproportionate influence. Kennedy argues, if I remember correctly, that Klan immigration proposals have pretty much been adopted over the years.
‘‘Rough music,’’ also known as ‘‘skimmington’’ in England and ‘‘charivari’’ in France, occurred when a community took the law into its own hands against a deviant, who was beaten, roughed up, or run out of town. A public procession usually climaxed the event. The playing of real, rough music, such as banging on drums and pots and pans, gave the practice its name. It is impossible to say when rough music became frequent in the colonies. Before the 1730s there were few newspapers, and incidents in rural areas, if there were any, have not survived in any accessible historical records. All we can say is that rough music in the form of skimmington first began to be noted regularly beginning in the 1730s, when colonial society was exhibiting the strains of conflict between increasingly cosmopolitan, anglicized elites and a localist populace defending traditional sexual morals and community norms.7 Early manifestations of rough music hint at the disruptions that were just around the corner: the New Hampshire riots over masts reserved for the Royal Navy in 1739; the Stono slave revolt in South Carolina the same year; the Great Awakening; the Massachusetts land bank crisis of 1739–41; the raucous Philadelphia election of 1742; and the perhaps imaginary lower-class/slave New York ‘‘Conspiracy of 1741.’’ All these events pitted cosmopolitan religious, political, or mercantile elites against locally oriented communities. Similarly, Bostonians improvised variations on rough music to bring down the governing elite of Massachusetts in the 1760s. Formal revolutionary bodies and informal crowds did likewise to secure the Revolution from loyalists, who retaliated in kind.
The chivalry/Klan connection did come from a lecture by Joel Williamson as he was writing _The Crucible of Race_, and teaching the history of race relations after the Civil War at Chapel Hill. Also see:
Thomas Dixon and _The Leopard's Spots_, D. W. Griffith's _Intolerance _and _Birth of a Nation_.
Have you inherited the family copy of _Eneas Africanus_? Another example of popular fiction at the turn of the last century (like the _Leopard's Spots_) romanticizing the faithful ex-slave, the "old-time darkey" myth. Beloved of generations, a hideous little tome.
Turn Down The Hate - A campaign against White Power music
Movie The Hate That Hate Produced The subject is the Black Muslims in America. Originally broadcast as a CBS Reports special in 1959, and was produced by Mike Wallace.
TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG AND FIND SONGS TO TEACH RESPECT AND TOLERANCE
THIRD WAR ON TERROR
Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp
A retrospective of San Diego Public Library children's librarian Clara Breed, who became "a lifeline to the outside world" for Japanese American children relocated during World War II to internment camps. Breed "distributed stamped and addressed postcards to her young friends, asking them to write to her and describe their life in camp." The site documents life in the camps with letters, photographs, and audio and video files. From the Japanese American National Museum.
FOURTH WAR ON TERROR - 9/11
NYU Law's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
The site aims to make information about issues taken up by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions more accessible.
Features include:
+ A country-by-country guide to the Special Rapporteur's fact-finding visits and correspondence with governments. This will be helpful to anyone researching the human rights situation in a particular country.
+ A guide to the legal observations the Special Rapporteur has made on the death penalty, shoot-to-kill policies, human rights law in armed conflict, and other issues. This will be helpful to lawyers, scholars, and advocates working in the area of international human rights law. The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions is an independent human rights expert appointed by the United Nations with a mandate to respond effectively to cases of extrajudicial killings around the world."
