White supremacist forum "Stormfront" discovers Zennie

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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!

Fiber Optic Cable System Vandalism A National Security Problem

 

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On Thursday April 9th a criminal incident impacting nearly a million people in three counties of Silicon Valley went largely unnoticed by the media, both mainstream and blogs, yet has enormous national security implications far beyond the scale and scope of September 11th 2001 or "9-11" and potentially impacting millions of Americans. What was it and why?

On that day, someone one or a group of people cut a fiber-optic and landline network placed beneath a manhole cover in San Jose, California. No one knows who did it, but the act crippled operations in hospitals, stores, banks, and supermarkets. No one could make a call using a cell phone or regular phone, or get information from the Internet. The full extent of the impact of this act is as of this writing not known, but imagine not being able to call the police or the fire department or your loved one for any reason especially if they need your help. And forget using "Skype", the Internet phone service, because access to the Internet itself was down.

That's what happened yesterday.

To explain the importance of this, I go back in time in my own life, to 1988.

Then, I worked a temporary job at a firm called "The San Francisco Consulting Group" (SFCG) in of course San Francisco, California, and which still exists. (I must report I write this without contact with anyone at the firm. My friend who was a partner there and told the firm to work with me, Michael Taylor, passed away due to brain cancer in 2003 and who's survived by his wife and my friend Sandra Taylor.)

In an innocent conversation the human resources representative discovered that the person hired to help them with spreadsheets - me - was using a software program called "STELLA", knew the modeling paradigm "System Dynamics" or "SD" and as it happens "SD" was used by SFCG, so my value immediately increased dramatically. Michael and his staff wanted to use System Dynamics to make this "economic soft landing" computer simulation for a client.

What was changing is the provision of access by long distance companies to the cable fiber-optic lines owned by AT&T. With all of these companies now able to "poach" off lines owned by AT&T, the firm was certain to lose money, the question was "how much."


At the time, the Internet was not invented by Al Gore, but the fact was then and is now that national communications depend on the same fiber-optic and coaxial cables that are mostly owned by AT&T and were vandalized in San Jose.

In 2006, I pointed to the communications system that was established as vulnerable to attack by a hacker. I wrote in my Zennie62.com blog:

The Old Economy firms are threatened by the continuation of a process that started almost 20 years ago: the constant and inexorable decrease in market value that they have suffered since the mid-80s. A chain of events started when the Federal Government forced the then-powerful AT&T to share its cable lines with other long distance providers as part of the breakup of AT&T. Ever since that point in the early 70s, the "Baby Bells" have been trying to slow the rate of decrease in market share and in any way.


Now, the only proof I have of this is rather powerful. In 1988 I was to be hired as part of a consulting team led by The San Francisco Consulting Group. I was to constuct a System Dynamics model of the US long distance telephone industry. That team was to determine how the market for long distance service was changing and how the client -- GTE -- should respond to this change. In other words, how they should achieve "a soft landing" as their market share decreased. The schematic I created for the model was formed to have a pattern of numerical behavior such that each long distance company was losing market share as new players arrived on the scene.


That was before the emergence of the Internet, which didn't become a major factor in how we communicate until 1995. But after that year, the number of Internet-equipped computers increased dramatically, as did the number of Internet-based services and companies. In 10 years, we've went from dial up to DSL to Broadband, and the one constant in this process has been the use of phone lines used by companies like AT&T.


Ever hungry for new forms of revenue generation, the firms that provide Broadband service -- and standard telephone service -- saw a way to cut off competition from the "Vonages" of the World: force them to pay for faster Internet speeds.

In this, they found the perfect driver to increase revenues and at the same time hamper the growth of the Global Economy. It's easier now than even before in our history for a small business to have a global reach using the World Wide Web. The cost barrier to entry for many is close to zero if one knows how to find the free services needed.


But from the perspective of thee AT&T's of the World, their revenue gain would be unescapable; absent a way of hacking the system, billions of users would have to pay them for faster access, thus introducing a new barrier to entry for small companies in the Global market.

To put it simply and to repeat my message folks, the fiber-optic cable lines that AT&T  created in the late 40s and up to the 80s and then had to share with new firms in the 90s and beyond, that sunk infrastructure of lines that carry the information that makes up what we call the World Wide Web, and the cell phone and telephone communications industry is still largely concentrated in the same system that was the victim of vandals in Silicon Valley on Thursday.  But when the matter of security has been discussed in the past, it was always from the perspective of stealing information from the network, not destroying it as was the case on April 9th. 

All the vandals did yesterday was open a manhole cover, go down below ground to the space under the streets that holds our fiber-optic system, find the lines, and cut them, then escape the scene of the crime just by climbing our and running away from the scene of the crime. Again, no suspects were captured as of this writing. No security camera was in place to "see" the crime. No locks on the manhole covers. Nothing. A group of people went in and then got out and crippled much of Silicon Valley's economy and lifestyle in the process. But it could have caused the loss of life just be not being able to contact and help someone in need.

And to add insult to injury, the talks about fiber-optic security that are available online only concern someone tapping the lines to get information, not destroying them altogether. The assumption is others will want to maintain the lines, but that's a terrible guess to make. This act of vandalism proves that there are people who want to cripple our economy and may have stumbled on something. We have to stop them.

How do we know this wasn't a dry run for some larger act of vandalism? Sorry to be a conspriracy theorist, but hey, I've got reasonable evidence to back my concern. I now state that a well-financed anti-USA terrorist effort could successfully cripple much of America's Internet and communications infrastructure in much the same way that vandals damaged fiber-optic cables on Thursday. Prove me wrong. Where's your counter-evidence?

This is such an important issue that the Federal Government, and specifically the Federal Communications Commission should work with the Department of Homeland Security to first eliminate the development of an Internet access system that's in the control of a few large corporations because of the problem of having such an important system concentrated in the hands of a few.  It's not that they're bad; it's a matter of protection. 

Municipalities should call for an end to Comcasts' exclusive control of cable access in cities like Oakland. The overall objective must be decentralization and redundancy (in other words having more than one of the same lines) of Internet-related access and control. We have to lay new lines of cable to act as a replacement and redundancy system for what's there now and make sure that those lines are secure from vandalism -- right now, given the events of Thursday April 9th, I write with great concern that our national system of fiber-optic cables is not secure and subject to attack.

I welcome anyone out there to prove I'm wrong. I already have my example of why I'm right in San Jose -- where's your proof?

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Zennie Abraham Posts 500th YouTube Video Today: Obama Video is #500

Wow, I never thought it possible, but I posted 500 YouTube Videos at Zennie62 on YouTube, the latest one being today, or really it was after midnight, which makes it early in the morning.  It was my video on what the Obama Inauguration meant to me.  This one:



Now, the chase is to get to 600 videos!  Then 1,000!  But seriously, I'm going to embark on a strategy of segmenting the channels into "Playlist shows" with different titles so the whole of the offerings is accessible.  Keep watching!