Meet Don Black: White Supremist Conspiracy Theory Nut

You may remember Don Black's son, Derek, attempted to get elected Palm Beach County's Republican Executive Committee. Black was disqualified because of his white supremist beliefs. The elder Black has served as the national Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan. Don Black now runs the white supremist group Stormfront. The group's logo is "White Pride World Wide."

One of the great things about Twitter is it gives wingnuts a forum to embarrass themselves. Black tweeted the conspiracy theory that white genocide is occurring in South Africa.

Breaking News: Okay It's Here -- My New Video -- White Genocide in South Africa! -- Most important one I have don...

Black's evidence is a video by David Duke. Duke spreads the lie that blacks were free under apartheid. (That doesn't even pass the laugh test.) Duke quotes a BBC story about genocide of whites in South Africa. A search of Google finds no such article. Black's most important tweet is the rantings of a fellow white supremist.

A fun fact is that Duke received his PhD from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management in the Ukraine. The Anti-Defamation League has described the school as the "University of Hate." The Ukrainian government condemned the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management for anti-semitism.

Duke also spread the myth that Obama wasn't born in the United States. Duke and Black disguise their hatemongering by masking their rhetoric with talk of civil and human rights. Their rhetoric about civil rights disappears when they fail to condemn their Stormfront followers for wishing the assassination Obama. It is hard to take Black and Duke seriously as civil rights advocates when they spent much of their adult lives wearing Klu Klux Klan robes.

Pat Buchanan's Latest Rant

Pat Buchanan fires off his latest missive against Hispanics. America's national security is threatened by Mexicans. Buchanan is on to Mexico's secret agenda of sending people to America to hang drywall and work as motel maids.

Mexico is the greatest foreign policy crisis I think America faces in the next 20, 30 years. Who is going to care, Andrea, 30 years from now whether a Sunni or a Shia is in Baghdad or who’s ruling in Kabul?

We’re going to have 135 million Hispanics in the United States by 2050, heavily concentrated in the southwest. The question is whether we’re going to survive as a country.

If you still have doubts about Buchanan's xenophobia problem then read this passage from his book "Right from the Beginning" about the Jim Crow era South.

"There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."

Buchanan defended former Klu Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

"Take a hard look at Duke's portfolio of winning issues and expropriate those not in conflict with GOP principles, [such as] reverse discrimination against white folks."

White people can find better champions than Pat Buchanan and David Duke. "Reverse discrimination" is another code word racists use. To say whites have had less opportunities than other ethnic groups is laughable. That same can be said for Buchanan's racial views. Their laughable and MSNBC should be embarrassed to have Buchanan on-th-air.

Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters

The Plank has the old Ron Paul newletters. Paul had several newsletters called Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report, and The Ron Paul Investment Letter. The paranoid and racist rambling about the L.A. riots are a classic example of what Paul supports.

A Special Issue On Racial Terrorism

These criminals who terrorize our cities -- in riots and on every non-roit day -- are not exclusively black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for black ills, to "fight the power," to steal and loot as much money as possible. Anything is justified against "The Man."

It gets better. The newsletter states whites are never raised to be racist.

My friend waved to the the tiny child, who scowled, stuck out her tongue and said (somewhat tautologicallly): "I hate you, white honkey." And the parents were indulgent. Is any white child taught to hate in this way? I've never heard of it.

Is that a rhetorical question? Newsletters that print racist garbage are a place where people are taught to hate.

Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.

There is this love letter to former Klu Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

Duke's platform called called for tax cuts, no quotas, no affirmative action, no welfare and no busing. "Tonight, we concede the election," he said. "But we will never concede our fight for equal rights for all Americans."

To many voters, this seems like plain good sense. Duke carried baggage from his past, but the voters were willing to overlook that. And if he had been afforded the forgiveness an ex-communist gets, he might have won.

The Paul newsletter The Political Report calls Martin Luther King "a world class adulterer." Another newsletter accuses King assaulting women.

Paul's newsletter describes gay men as fatalist that want to die of AIDS.

Well, gays in San Francisco do not obey the dictates of good sense. They have stopped practicing "safe sex."

This newsletter writer unscientific out of his ass to make his argument.

"[T]hese men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners." Also, "they enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick."

Paul went into damage control mode and issued a statement on his web site.

“The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.

“In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character, not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: ‘I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.’

The question is why the hell would Paul allow his name to be used on this newsletter if he didn't agree with the contents? Can Paul tell us who wrote the newsletter? I'm betting he can't. New Republic's James Kirchick notices that many articles are written in the first person.