This post is a part of my work-in-progress, titled "White Identity in the Workplace: Revisiting Racial Communication in NLRB Representation Elections." Judge for yourself. For my part, I have learned much from the research that has gone into these paragraphs.
White Racialists Are Not a Minuscule, Fringe Group: There is no statistical estimate of
white racialists in the workplace. Some are members who are formally inducted
into racialist organizations, such as the 130 active Ku Klux Klan groups in the
U.S. But they also include less visible groups that believe that whites are a distinct
people connected by blood or heritage in a way that separates them from Blacks,
Jews, Latinos, Asians, and non-European immigrants. These groups include skin heads,
Aryans, assorted neo-Nazis, and others with obscure names.[1]
Hundreds of white identity groups
that promote racial superiority and exclusion operate openly. Even the Ku Klux
Klan interfaces with the public more openly than decades ago, when their
activities, except rare parades, were secluded to farms and woods.[2]
To an unknown extent, they are family, neighbors and co-workers who find attachment,
meaning, and purpose in white racial power. They inhabit a eugenically
alternate world of music,[3]
speak in coded vocabularies,[4]
glorify themselves and celebrate crimes against minorities by wearing tattoos and
ominous symbols,[5]
and mingle on internet platforms.[6]
Many of today’s white racialists are not visible to others but visible to each
other.[7]
They mask racial supremacy in numerical codes—for example by using the number
14 to mean, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white
children.”[8]
[1] E.g., American Freedom Party (political party that promotes white
supremacy); American Nazi Party (neo-Nazi organization patterned after the
Third Reich); Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (violent white supremacist prison gang);
Aryan Nations (white supremacist neo-Nazi group); Creativity Alliance (group
that promotes a racialist religion and white supremacism known as RAHOWA); Hammerskins
(white supremacist group that promotes racialist music); Ku Klux Klan (including
National Alliance, National Association for the Advancement of White People, and
National Policy Institute, a media-savvy advocacy group for people of European
descent); National Vanguard (a group that proclaims that the “European race is
uniquely beautiful and creative”); Nationalist Movement (white supremacist
organization); The Order (white supremacist group); Phineas Priesthood (Christian-based
group that opposes mixing of races); Volksfront (a variant skinhead group for
people of European); and White Aryan Resistance (neo-Nazi group).
[2] Matthew
Delmont, Hairspray’s Revealing Portrayal
of Racism in America, The Atlantic (Dec.
7, 2016). See Brandenburg v. Ohio,
395 U.S. 444 (1969), where a member of the Ku Klux Klan invited a Cincinnati TV
station to attend a rally at a farm.
[3] Popular groups are Bound
for Glory, Aggravated Assault, Bully Boys, Max Resist, The Hooligans, and Skrewdriver.
See Futrell, supra note __, at 294. Common music genres include National Socialist black metal, Nazi punk, hatecore, and Rock
Against Communism. To comprehend the deep connection between eugenic ideology
and White Power Music, visit the website for National Socialist Punks (N.S.P.),
Racial and Political Ideology, available in http://www.nazipunk.8k.com/ideology.html.
[4] Genres include Nazi
punk, Rock Against Communism, hatecore and National Socialist black metal.
[5] Michael Grynbaum, Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media
Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut,’ N.Y. Times (Jan. 26, 2017), available in https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html?_r=0.
[7] State v. Tankovich, 2012
WL 9500497 (Ida. 2012) (expert testimony established that the defendant’s three-leaf
clover tattoo was a common symbol worn by Aryan white supremacists); Slavin v.
Atkins, 413 Fed. Appx. 380 (2d Cir. 2011) (admission of evidence of inmate’s white
supremacist tattoos did not violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination);
U.S. v. Allen
[8] See Working Class Skin
Heads, post from June 6, 2016), at https://www.facebook.com/WCSHSodaCity/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf, stating: “This
community is based on those who earn their living. Those of us who scrape by to
take hone our slice of the dream. We are not slaves, we are not robots we are
hard working people who know that something earned is something to be proud of.”
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