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The blog post I wrote called "Jimmy Carter's right; White Nationalists taking over the GOP"
has got the attention of the famous white supremacist forum called "Stormfront".
When I put the link in the context of some of the comments that come to my email from my YouTube video, it's actually tolerable. But overall, concerns some express about "illegal immigrants" are sad and silly, because they use the term "illegal immigrant" as a racial code word for anyone Latino.
Here's my comment example from my video at YouTube.com:
I'm sure the dumbass in this video supports amnesty for illegals - he follows the party line like a trained monkey. And yet he says, "we need to fix this economy". Well, it might help if we didn't have millions of border jumping peasants sucking up millions of service industry, manufacturing, & assembly jobs.
By contrast, the reality is "illegal immigrants" come in all shapes and sizes and are just a marriage proposal away from being legal. Well that's oversimplifying things but you get what I mean. The commenter uses the term "border jumping peasants" which obviously excludes waiters and waitresses from Ireland.
Geez.
Now, what's "Stormfront", you ask? The website description reads "Discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival". What's interesting is I could not find an equivalent when I took out the word "white" and replaced it with "black" in Google. But that's beside the point.
Stormfront started in 1990 as an online bulletin Board for David Duke when he ran for U.S. Senator of Louisiana (he lost). It's grown since then to become the 249th largest forum online with over 6 million posts according to
Big-Boards.com.
Now that doesn't mean 6 million people are posting to the site but it means there are a small but active set of people who have the idea that "white rights" are being harmed for some reason. I think they're misguided.
For example someone wrote that they stood for the end of "white discrimination"; well that person should be interested in the end of discrimination, period.
I point to Stormfront because its something you need to be aware of. Fox News Bill O'Reilly
said it best in 2003 in response to the Georgia racially divided prom issue:
Now, the fact that this white supremacist group is taking such an interest in the prom situation says a lot and should also be a danger sign to those of you who don't see the problem here.
Bill's right. Not being aware of a group that has as its goal racial separation and it seems by some harm, is to allow that group to grow and to commit criminal acts of racial discrimination and hate. That some people have been brainwashed to think in the way that Stormfront presents shows how terrible America's education system has become and how America has not activity had diversity training in schools.
As a result, we have some people who are so isolated from others based on skin color it's given them a psychotic view of the World.
The simple, inescapable reality is that there's no one purely white or black; we're all mixed together to some degree. Looking at the world purely through a white or black lens is silly and rather sick.
Now
that's different from pointing out
how racism is done, which I do. You have to identify who's who racially to do that, but it doesn't mean the persons are "all" white, black, Asian, or Latino.
To me, racial divisions are silly. It's why I never joined the Black Student Union at Skyline High or Brett Harte Junior High in Oakland. It's why I co-created our
Star Trek Club when I was 14...
I'm gonna make Lars famous!
...and why I didn't want to be in a fraternity that was all-black in college. I believed then as I do now that in order to properly function in the World, one can't shield themselves off from society and become something akin to an anti-government wacko.
Moreover, I didn't want to be in a frat that was all white either, even though such organizations don't call themselves "white fraternities." The bottom line is I like organizations that have diverse memberships and seek to build a diverse population. Life's more fun than the other way.
Think about it. A person who's white and always been around whites will have a hard time in a mostly-black room. The anxiety created would be a product of their own mind, especially if someone took a "shining" to them, as they say. But if they had a racially diverse set of friends, that anxiety would not appear and race would not be a source of discomfort. And that's true for anyone.
I am proud that I can go anywhere and be myself.
It's not that I don't see the historic need for black frats - I do. There was a time when we were not allowed to assemble with whites, let alone ourselves. Blacks have needed a place to go as a minority in America to be able to connect with those who have similar experiences, and that's true today; thus the value of the black frat.
And I support anyone who wants to join a black frat; I just think in this day and age whites and others should be encouraged to join a black fraternity as well, just as I'm invited to join an Italian men's club. It's good for society, and hey, it's good for business too. Especially the flow of commerce.
But the bottom line is racial separatists need to wake up and change with the world around them. American diversity is the norm now, and anyone who has friendships that are all one color is looked at as weird, even if the people doing the looking don't say anything.
It's what I've tried to tell anyone who would listen: the real America, the one that elected Barack Obama as President, is more diverse and desiring to be such than the mainstream media or Stormfront presents.
If you want to see the
real America, watch Bravo, Current TV, CoLoursTV (where my TV show is) or MTV. It's no surprise that those networks have some of the hottest and most innovative programs around. They're the new cross-section of a racially mixed America.
It's about time!
We've embarked on a "War on Terrorism" that doesn't have fronts on a map, or massed armies. Fighting to win means engaging in ways that win the hearts and minds of people half-way 'round the world from us, people who listen to neither Jon Stewart nor the 
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