{"id":13150,"date":"2014-02-25T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T09:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13150"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T09:23:47","slug":"more-than-half-of-white-americans-anti-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13150","title":{"rendered":"‘More than half of white Americans anti-black’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Potok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During an interview<\/a> with CNN last week, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center boldly claimed that more than half of white Americans hate blacks.<\/p>\n

While discussing whether or not white on black crime has increased in recent years, Potok argued that a drastic rise was evident, alluding that American whites have become more racist due to a black president.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell I think the best data shows that in fact anti-black racism has risen over the last four or five years,\u201d Potok said. \u201cThere\u2019s polling that shows that both implicit and explicit anti-black attitudes among American whites have gone up quite significantly between 2008 and 2012 to the point where now more than half of white Americans have these anti-black attitudes.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN contributor Reihan Salam, visibly shocked by Potok\u2019s assertions, pointed to the massive strides gained in American race relations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s extremely misleading,\u201d Salam said. \u201cYou\u2019ll see for example that one out of 12 marriages in the United States are now interracial marriages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salam also went on to highlight the fact that the definition of racism has drastically changed, with certain groups attempting to find racism in places it may not actually exist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing is, people are getting very creative in what they are characterizing as racism,\u201d Salam added. \u201cWhen you look at hard statistics like interracial marriages, interracial friendships, when you look at the level of racial segregation, you\u2019ve seen enormous progress over time and I think that we should celebrate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an attempt to defend his position, Potok quickly jumped to his own organization\u2019s statistics, claiming that American hate groups are at epidemic levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve also seen an enormous growth over the last 15 years or so in the number of hate groups, primarily white supremacist groups from about 600 in 2000 to more than 1,000 today,\u201d Potok said.<\/p>\n

While the SPLC does list some legitimate hate groups on their website, political groups with no connection to racism whatsoever now fill the vast majority of space.<\/p>\n

Groups such as Oath Keepers, an organization filled with military, police and firefighters who support their oath to the Constitution, have been labeled as hateful and racist by the SPLC. In its desperate attempt to demonize any group that questions government corruption, the SPLC has even gone as far as labeling alternative media outlet We Are Change as racist as well.<\/p>\n

In a surprising move, Salam went on to note the SPLC\u2019s massive wealth increase in recent years, commenting on the groups need for increased racism to remain relevant and lucrative.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut another thing is we have organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that really have grown enormously in recent years. For example, in 1995 the SPLC had net assets of about $52 million, in 2011 they had net assets over $250 million and this is not a period of time during which racism increased by a factor of five, rather they have been able to grow by drawing on instances of this kind and then weaving them into a story about racism growing,\u201d Salam said.<\/p>\n

Just last year, the SPLC\u2019s CEO J. Richard Cohen sent a letter to former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder, claiming the need to investigate the country\u2019s alleged \u201cpatriot\u201d domestic terror threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cUtilizing the standard SPLC modus operandi and fear tactics, Cohen conflates a small number of racist white supremacist groups with the larger and more diverse patriot community,\u201d Kurt Nimmo. \u201cHe also characterizes growing concern on the part of millions of Americans in response to egregious violations of the Constituion as dangerous\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

To no surprise, an August 2009 Freedom of Information Act request revealed that Homeland Security\u2019s \u201cright-wing extremism\u201d reports were not based on any legitimate evidence, but random articles found on the SPLC\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

While constantly labeling Constitution-supporting Americans from all races as dangerous, the SPLC itself is generating hate and violence.<\/p>\n

Source: prisonplanet.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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