Earlier this week I read a Newsweek article (May 4, 2009) on the re-packaging of hate groups in America. The article’s content, coupled with the recent shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, stirred up my personal-pot of disgust.
In the Newsweek piece, loving the white race was the thinly veiled reason for belonging to a white supremacist organization. “It’s not about hate, it’s about love…Why is it that a black man wants to preserve his culture and heritage it’s a good thing, and when a white person wants the same thing, we’re called haters?” said Thomas Rob, national director of the Knights Party, during the Klan offshoot’s May family picnic in Zinc, Ark. Yet what’s behind this “white love” ideal seems to be fear– fear of losing rights and jobs to the Hispanics, blacks, and Jews in this country.
With the Ku Klux Klan’s retooled message of a kinder, gentler, Klan, an increased number of Americans are hopping aboard the white supremacy bus. Are white folks in the U.S.A. truly losing their rights or is this all fear-fueled rhetoric?
The constitution protects our first amendment right to freedom of speech. For this I am thankful. Does this fundamental right to voice one’s opinion distill down to a license to kill?
Your thoughts?
-Leesa, the Derby City Diva
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