The Company You Keep, Part 2

So the Post ran a follow-up article on the American Renaissance conference held out in Herndon at the Hyatt, the hotel apparently where all the good white supremacists feel welcome. Amazingly, several of the racists spoke on the record to the Post reporter. Among the highlights, was the scrumptious revelation that justice isn't always blind:

Conference participant Michael Regan, an assistant district attorney in New York's Allegany County, said U.S. policies on immigration, trade and "demographics" have put the country on the wrong path. "You can see European Christian Americans are an endangered species," he said, asserting that the accurate description of conference participants is "white preservationists" rather than "white supremacists."

How would you like to be working in that office? I'm guessing some clever defense attorney is going to be looking at this guy's case load and trying to figure out if there's any cause for appeals or mistrials etc based on this guy's openly acknowledged bigotry. And what's this bullshit about "European Christian Americans are an endangered species"?

What bizarro America is he living in? When's the last time you had a Jewish or Muslim President? Bush, Clinton, and on back made great shows of darkening Christian church doors. I'm willing to bet a quick poll of the lawmakers up on Capitol Hill would reveal an overwhelming number of Christians versus all others combined. In fact, I'll bet the Senate would be hard pressed to field a non-Christian softball team.

As for the Supreme Court, all I'll say is Scalia and Alito. Hell, the Pope isn't Catholic enough for Scalia.

If this so-called Assistant DA can't even figure out what the hell an endangered species is, how can anyone trust him with a case?

And then there's dear old Robert Baldacci of Roanoke, Virginia. Here's his moment of Post glory:

Robert Baldacci, who works in manufacturing quality control in Roanoke, said that this was the first time he had participated in such a meeting but that he had long had a nagging sense that white people should do more to protect their interests as a group. "It would be lazy if any group ignored itself," he said.

Apparently, Mr. Baldacci doesn't really understand the origins of his compatriots' views and their glowing adoration of old school eugenicists like Madison Grant (American Renaissance still sells his 1933 tome The Conquest of a Continent on its website) and Lothrop Stoddard (whom Am. Ren. considers a "prophet"), two gentlemen who would take one look at that crazy name ending in a vowel and toss him the hell out of the white man's club. I've been lucky enough to read these fine minds of the early 20th century, so here's a bit of what they say:

"All wars thus far discussed have been race wars of Europe against Asia, or of Nordics against Mediterraneans" [Madison Grant in his introduction to Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color (1920), p. xxviii] -- here Nordics clearly exclude Italians, whom Grant classifies as Mediterraneans. Further on, Grant makes clear the argument that is still being articulated today by the American Renaissance supremacists: "Such a catastrophe cannot threaten if the Nordic race will gather itself together in time, shake off the shackles of an inveterate altruism, discard the vain phantom of internationalism, and reassert the pride of race and the right of merit to rule" [ibid. xxx].

Lothrop Stoddard, for his part, spends a good bit of time in The Revolt Against Civilization (1922) misreading IQ tests to prove that Italians are naturally dumber than that good old Nordic stock. In fact, Mr. Stoddard is so enamored of his statistics that he entitles the chapter, "The Iron Law of Inequality."

Apparently, given the sad time they've had of it in this world, the whites have had to make concessions in the last 80 years to those dirty, swarthy, Mediterraneans. At least Mr. Baldacci feels welcome at their conference.