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I will assume that Christine Quinn’s “standard” applies equally to the ADL, the SPLC, and those of a similar ilk who are rather quick to jump on anyone proud of their white heritage….right?

A man brutally beaten in New York City was targeted because he is openly gay, the New York Police Department said Monday.
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“When someone is attacked for being who they are, and for being proud of who they are, there is no other explanation for that attack than hatred and bigotry,” said New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the first openly gay speaker of the city council.

Source/Full Story: CNN.com

Source: CNN.com

Don Black said he despises Barack Obama. And he said he believes illegal aliens undermine the economic fabric of the United States.

Black, a 55-year-old former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, isn’t the only person who holds such firm beliefs, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which Thursday released its annual hate group report.

The center’s report, “The Year in Hate,” found the number of hate groups grew by 54 percent since 2000. The study identified 926 hate groups — defined as groups with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people — active in 2008. That’s a 4 percent jump, adding 38 more than the year before.

What makes this year’s report different is that hate groups have found two more things to be angry about — the nation’s first African-American president and an economy that is hemorrhaging jobs. For the past decade, Latino immigration has fueled the growth of hate groups. Video Watch what the family of a hate crime victim has to say »

“We fear these conditions will favor the growth of these groups in the future,” said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. “In the long arch of history, we are definitely moving forward, but these kinds of events can produce backlashes.”

Black claims the number of registered members and readers on his white nationalist Web site surged to unprecedented levels in recent months.

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Source: Hatewatch

American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA

Today the Southern Poverty Law Center is releasing a new report, The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance examining the three Washington, D.C., organizations standing in the way of comprehensive immigration reform. The report shows that they are part of a network of groups created by a man who has been at the heart of the white nationalist movement for decades.

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Source: Nashville Business Journal:

An organization that allegedly has ties to hate groups provided 92 percent of the money for the failed “English only” campaign, its campaign financial disclosure statement shows.

ProEnglish, whose founder John Tanton has financially supported white supremacist groups, gave $82,500 to fund the Nashville effort to require all government business to be conducted solely in English, with limited exceptions. Metro Councilmember Eric Crafton led the charge, which resulted in a special election last week. The proposed amendment was defeated Thursday by more than 9,000 votes.

Other donors included auto dealer Lee Beaman, who gave $6,000, and seven others who gave smaller amounts. One of those, Legends Corner, a music club on Lower Broadway, is listed as having given $100 to the effort.

The campaign listed its total contributions at $89,722.76.

Nashville For All of Us, the campaign that worked to oppose the English-only measure, raised $286,025. Its donors included Mayor Karl Dean, Vanderbilt University, Gaylord Entertaiment Co. and HCA Inc.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which works to investigate and prevent hate crimes, has named Tanton, a Michigan activist, as the funder and founder of Pro English and has tied him financially to three groups it designates as hate groups.

Tanton, a retired opthalmologist and central figure in the movement to restrict immigration, has long said he is not a racist and condemns those with racist views on his ProEnglish Web site. But the law center points to letters stored at the University of Michigan that show Tanton’s correspondence with Ku Klux Klan associates, Holocaust revisionists and other sympathizers with the notion of white racial superiority as evidence that he has long been involved in the white nationalist movement.

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Source: washingtonpost.com

For 20 years, Bart McIntyre has tracked white supremacist movements, even spending two years undercover in Alabama to penetrate a violent young band of criminals who called themselves the Confederate Hammerskins.

Away from his wife and young daughter, McIntyre took the alias “Mark,” attended Ku Klux Klan rallies and educated himself in racist propaganda. He and a law enforcement partner ultimately helped build criminal cases that sent more than 10 men to prison for their involvement in the murder and vicious beatings of black men in the Birmingham area in the early 1990s.

Now, as McIntyre prepares to retire from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, he and other analysts are warning that the threat from hate groups and splinter organizations connected to the Klan should not be underestimated, especially at a time of economic unrest.

“In society, you have a very small number of people who are going to push the envelope and take it to the next step,” said McIntyre, the resident ATF agent in charge in Roanoke.

Veteran investigators say they have advocated for increased attention to the problem since late September, when the nation’s economic troubles widened, giving white supremacists a potent new source of discontent to exploit among potential recruits.

The number of U.S. hate groups has increased by 48 percent, to 888, since 2000, according to experts at the Southern Poverty Law Center, an independent organization that monitors racist movements.

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Source: Missoulian

Billings police say they haven’t seen a dramatic rise in white supremacist activity, but enough that they are taking note.

Nationally, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, reports that overt racism has been on the rise since Barack Obama’s candidacy for president began gathering steam. Nonwhite immigration is also a rallying point, according to the center.

Anderson said Obama’s election is both distressing and encouraging for groups like the MCA.

“We’re not proud of his presidency,” Anderson said. “But there is more contact to the church and other groups.”

Anderson wouldn’t confirm that a MCA member was responsible for the flier at the Unitarian church, but acknowledged the document was the group’s “standard flier.” It has the Creators’ logo and contact information, including the Web sites www.MontanaCreators.webs.com and www.CreativityMovement.net.

“A lot of people against us have never read, never looked into our program,” he said. “They’ve been brainwashed.”

The flier lists “the facts on white racial extinction” and concludes that interracial mixing will lead to the white race becoming extinct by 2100. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in August that one-third of the American population are minorities. Races other than white will be a majority by 2042.

“We recognize the white family as the golden link in the chain to survival,” Anderson said. “To defeat the extinction that faces us, we have to keep breeding.”

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Excerpt follows, read the full story at the Source: The Courier-Journal

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In 1996, Hall, a 350-pound tattooed biker, was arrested near Dayton, Ohio, on a marijuana charge, he said.

Burkey, who was an FBI special agent, began using Hall as a criminal informant.

But when Burkey was assigned in early 1997 to a domestic-terrorism unit tracking the Aryan Nations, it turned out that Hall had a connection to members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang who they associated with, Burkey wrote in his book.

“I didn’t even know the Aryan Nations existed,” Hall said.

To avoid prison, Hall agreed to work his way into the group, eventually becoming a trusted associate of leaders of the Ohio Aryan Nations.

“I was asked to become a member by Ray Redfeairn himself,” he said, referring to the man who took over the Aryan Nations in 2001, before dying in 2003. Photos in his book show Hall giving Nazi salutes and standing in white supremacist churches.

All the while, Hall was passing information to Burkey at the FBI. Hall said he suffered from insomnia and drank heavily to cope with the stress.

In 1999, Dees was preparing take the Aryan Nations to court. He was suing them on behalf of an attack victim from Idaho.

Around this time, Hall said he overheard talk that made him think a plot might be afoot to either kill Dees or bomb the law center.

“White supremacist groups throughout the country hated Dees, and, privately, many expressed the view that the assassination of Dees would be the greatest achievement any white supremacist could accomplish,” Hall wrote in his book.

Hall said he and Kelly twice traveled together to Edwards’ Klan compound — then located in Powderly, Ky.

On one visit, Hall said, he drove Kelly to a farmhouse to get PVC pipes that he feared could be used as bombs; on a second trip, Hall said he wore an FBI wire.

“They engineered a leather vest, it was like James Bond,” Hall said. “It had a wire, but you couldn’t find it … it was terrifying.”

In an interview, Edwards said he remembered Hall, and suspected he was an informant.

“I didn’t like him. I didn’t trust him. He asked too many questions,” he said.

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Source: Frost Illustrated

Since Barack Obama’s historic win as America’s first black president, there has been a membership hike in white supremacist groups, according the Alabamabased Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks and monitors hate groups across the nation.

SPLC Director Mark Potock said groups those groups include the Council of Conservative Citizens— which supports white nationalism and white separatism— claim that its membership has dramatically increased since Election Day.

“Wednesdays and Thursday were both record breaking days for [this group]. On both days we shattered all records for web traffic without the Council of Conservative Citizens being the national news,” reported a news bulletin on the Council’s website.

Although Potok said, “These groups routinely exaggerate these types of claims,” he added that the rising interest is real.

“There’s no doubt that there’s been a real reaction,” Potock said. “One of the first things we saw was a surge in these groups.”

This expanding curiosity doesn’t surprise Potock, who has monitored hate groups for 11 years.

“It was pretty predictable,” he said. “We are likely to see an even further growth in the coming months.”

Before the election, an outbreak in these groups spread across the nation. According to Potock, the number of white supremacist groups spiraled from 602 in 2000 to 888 last year.

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