White Nationalists Tied to Tea Parties

The article below is from the blog Imagine 2050. Contributors to the blog include activists, immigrants, artists and students who are invested in a future nation that embraces multiculturalism and tolerance.

White Nationalists Tied to Tea Parties
April 14, 2009
By Jill Garvey

It’s no secret that conservatives have a hard time keeping racism out of their ranks (airwaves), and now it seems it has surfaced in even their grassroots (astro turf) movements. The whole tea party thing (except with representation and a high income bracket this time) is being organized by conservative corporate lobbyists, Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity, who are no doubt milking this all the way to their billion dollar bank accounts.

If that wasn’t hard enough for real [sic] conservative activists to swallow, they are really going to hate showing up at rallies only to rub elbows with white nationalists. Kris Kobach got the party started in Kansas on April 4th when he hosted a joint tea party/anti-immigrant rally with Billy Gilchrist, Topeka chapter leader for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. In 2004 Kansas Republican leader Timothy Burger wrote in response to Kobach’s failed congressional run, “It doesn’t help matters that Kobach was hired by FAIR, widely perceived as a racist anti-immigrant group during the campaign.” But that stinging accusation hasn’t stopped Kobach from working for the John Tanton network ever since, or from dipping his tainted toes into anything that smells ripe for manipulation and publicity.

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FAIR Exposed as a Bona Fide Hate Group

Yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report exposing the anti-immigrant organization, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), as a "bona fide hate group".

In their report, The Teflon Nativists: FAIR Marked by ties of White Supremacy, SPLC cites FAIR's long time anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes and history of questionable statements and associations.

Among the findings of the report, SPLC showed that the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR):

is the creation of a man who operates a racist publishing company and has compared immigrants to "bacteria;"

has employed members of white supremacist groups in key positions;

has promoted racist conspiracy theories; and

has accepted more than $1 million from the Pioneer Fund, a racist foundation devoted to eugenics and to proving a connection between race and IQ.

Read their complete report Here

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