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http://www.alternet.org/new-face-hate-meet-man-trying-make-white-separatism-respectableRichard Spencer sat sipping his chai latte at the Red Caboose, a train-themed coffee shop in downtown Whitefish, Mont. Clean-cut and restrained, he reminded me of a hundred outdoors-obsessed people I had known growing up here in the Flathead Valley, a resort area nestled in the shadows of Glacier National Park.
But Spencers tidy appearance is about more than his sense of propriety; its a recruitment tool. Spencer advocates for white separatism and he wants to shake his movements reputation for brutality and backwardness.
We have to look good, Spencer said, adding that if his movement means being part of something that is crazed or ugly or vicious or just stupid, no one is going to want to be a part of it. Those stereotypes of redneck, tattooed, illiterate, no-teeth people, Spencer said, are blocking his progress. Organizations that monitor domestic hate groups say its just this unthreatening approachability that makes Spencer so insidious.
Spencer says now, more than ever, it falls to people like him to be engaged and savvy if America is going to combat the growing threat of diversity. In particular, hes irritated by the rise of U.S. minority births, which outnumbered white births for the first time in 2011.
BillyRibs
(787 posts)claiming Concern about the increasing population and racial mixing of REAL Americans (Reads White) with Jews, and Blacks. Gays will damn us all to the hell fires. German,(oops, I meant) American Values. But all he really wants is Unlimited power.
cali
(114,904 posts)I read the article and went to his website. yikes.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)every time I read about some state denying Marriage equality, or Dr.s being told they have shove medical implements in women's Vag's because it's the will of the people. Or I read someone saying my My marriage to my White husband should be illegal because race mixing is bad. And lot's not forget shoving their religion down my throat impedes their freedom if I don't like it.
It slips my mind that this is a "free country"
LOL
cali
(114,904 posts)about this guy because it could help his recruitment program? And what on earth makes you think that an article in Altenet will be read by the audience that would find this creep and his sicko bigotry attractive?
Someone said they went to his site and I thought hmmm They would not have known about the site if not for this article.
I have no power over what gets written about and what doesn't.
Live Free, Be Well!
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)outnumbered white births for the first time in 2011." These two phrases sum him up.
He'll have to come up against a GOP party that pushes against birth control and choice. How far do you think that will get him.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)On another planet.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)in the wings and there will be lots of money from other sources. Even from some groups for which he holds disdain.
marmar
(77,080 posts).......... and put up an impermeable wall around it?
Zorra
(27,670 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)as the Louisiana governor's race, and then he pretty much circled the drain.