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Remember I wrote about Randy Gray, the neo-Nazi from Michigan who was recently elected as a precinct delegate for the Republican Party? Well now that Obama has been elected, he's decided to come out of the closet. Wearing his white sheet. Picture below the fold.
And he had so many pearls of wisdom to offer:
He said he wasn't walking the sidewalk just because Sen. Barack Obama won Tuesday's presidential election."I feel white people feel more oppressed," he said. "We're basically told as white people we can't have any organizations. We're ruled by communists.
"It's not just about Barack Obama. It goes deeper than that."
I always picture these idiots in Scooby Doo sheets.
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Are persecution complexes on sale this year, or what?
Posted by: Beowulff | November 12, 2008 9:57 AM
This may be one of the best effects of an Obama presidency, even beyond whatever he can do actively. His very presence is forcing the racists out into the open, where we can properly mock and marginalize them.
Posted by: BobApril | November 12, 2008 10:10 AM
Ah, but he's a progressive klansman. He's carrying a U.S. flag, not a confederate flag.
Posted by: Herod the Freemason | November 12, 2008 10:12 AM
I like his cute little cape.
Posted by: barry21 | November 12, 2008 10:26 AM
"I always picture these idiots in Scooby Doo sheets."
but not with meddling kids in seventies clothes.
Posted by: Bill in NC | November 12, 2008 10:32 AM
is he mocking the pope? All these costumes start to look the same after a while.
Posted by: Richard Eis | November 12, 2008 10:38 AM
In my home-fucking-town of all places...
Posted by: Chad | November 12, 2008 10:45 AM
HEY! Don't defame the name of Scooby Doo. And no, I am not reliving my youth through my 6 year old.
Posted by: Lorax | November 12, 2008 10:50 AM
Naturally this guy is a nut-job but as a Devil's Advocate point it would be next to impossible to organise a "white" equivalent of the NAACP without it being branded as a racist organisation.
It's like the people who started an English Nationalism organisation to counterpart the Scottish / Welsh / Irish Nationalism organisations and were immediately accused of the same thing.
Posted by: David Durant | November 12, 2008 11:09 AM
David Duke's name on the 1992 Republican primary ballot was one of the things that finally drove me from the party.
Boy, I'm glad I left.
Posted by: noncarborundum | November 12, 2008 11:10 AM
Here's the thread at Stormfront (not going to link to them):
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=540023&highlight=randy+gray+Michigan
I like the picture of the Comic Sans sign later in the thread.
From that angle, he does look like he's wearing a mitre.
Posted by: fsb | November 12, 2008 11:12 AM
Dangit, I thought you needed html tags for linkage.
Posted by: fsb | November 12, 2008 11:15 AM
I hate Michigan neo-Nazis.
Posted by: mathyoo | November 12, 2008 11:35 AM
David Durant wrote:
Well, there used to be an equivalent organization. It was called the National Association for the Advancement of White People. It was founded by David Duke and it was a racist organization.
Posted by: Ed Brayton | November 12, 2008 11:36 AM
More to the point, since whites are the most racially privileged group in this country, any organization intended to promote white interests is inherently racist, because it perpetuates a racial imbalance rather than seeking to diminish it.
If someday the tables are turned and whites actually are oppressed (as opposed to merely yelled at by some Chicago preacher from his church), then a white-power organization will not be racist. But until then, it is.
Posted by: Mithrandir | November 12, 2008 12:30 PM
Oooookayyy. White people in this country are now oppressed because the winner of our recent Presidential election had only two white grandparents instead of the customary four?
The fact that this whining yahoo is carrying an American flag makes me feel soiled.
Posted by: Julie Stahlhut | November 12, 2008 12:31 PM
Mr. Durant, you may join the NAACP regardless of your color. I've been a member. I'm not black, nor brown. Nothing stops you from joining the group.
The NAACP was founded to fight lynching and oppression of African Americans in the form of Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and other entrenched, legal forms of discrimination.
Now, Mr. Durant: If you want to focus on such oppressions of whites, be our guest. Open your membership to people of all races, to anyone concerned about the issues, and lets have at it.
Where are there laws that prevent white people from drinking at the drinking fountain in the park? Where are whites routinely hanged or beaten to death without operation of law, simply because they are white? Where are whites paying poll taxes? Where are whites prevented from voting because of their skin color?
Somehow, I suspect that any organization founded for whites only wouldn't be concerned with real racism against whites, but instead would be worried about the lack of racism against others, as Mr. Duke's organization was.
You're welcome to fight invidious discrimination in any organization. You're not welcome to work for the establishment of invidious discrimination, regardless your color.
Are there groups that fight discrimination, that are open to people of all colors? Sure: Girl Scouts, Lions Clubs, Rotary International, PTA. There are many others.
If you can't find what you want in that array of groups, it's not because anyone is unfairly stopping the establishment of the group.
Posted by: Ed Darrell | November 12, 2008 12:50 PM
Virtually every city in the country has organizations that celebrate and support "white" or European American culture and society. We also have festivals that celebrate those cultures and societies in nearly every major city in the country. Octoberfest, Festa-Italiana, St. Patrick's Day, Polish-fest, the list goes on and on. Each of these organizations and celebrations promote the interests of European American (IE "White") groups every year. To claim that there aren't "white" groups, or that celebration of "white" culture is declared racist, etc., is patently false and equally silly.
Posted by: dogmeatib | November 12, 2008 1:04 PM
I believe that it's technically a capelet, as in, "I like his cute capelet."
Posted by: Umlud | November 12, 2008 2:27 PM
The only reason for starting a white equivalent of the NAACP would be racism. In the United States, white people don't NEED help to advance. They are already at the top of the social food chain.
Posted by: FishyFred | November 12, 2008 2:31 PM
At last I have found someone I would take the trouble to flip off if I were driving by. I never do that, but Randy Gray would make it worthwhile.
Posted by: Zeno | November 12, 2008 3:26 PM
My best friend's house is in this picture. She called me when it happened and couldn't believe it could happen in "our town". Good old Midland. Hate like this can happen anywhere.
Posted by: pyrogirl | November 12, 2008 3:58 PM
it would be next to impossible to organise a "white" equivalent of the NAACP
Ah, sorry. Your invitation to the Good Ol' Boys Club must have gotten lost in the mail. We'll have one sent to you by bonded courier instead.
Hope to see you at the next Illuminati cocktail hour!
Yours Truly,
The Man
Posted by: The Man | November 12, 2008 4:04 PM
I thought that the "White" group was called Congress, or am I being to cynical?
Posted by: DPSisler | November 12, 2008 4:29 PM
it would be next to impossible to organise a "white" equivalent of the NAACP
Like what.. the Sons of Norway?
Posted by: SpotWeld | November 12, 2008 6:36 PM
Who is this guy's tailor? Even I can see that the sleeves are much too short.
What? He's not a Wizard? Well then, what is it that supports the point of his hat? Or his cowl or hood there. Is there an internal support built into it or does it just fit real snug?
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | November 12, 2008 7:23 PM
Quoth Mithrandir:
This is a textbook example of racism... that is, the kind of racism that's acceptable to the left. It brands all white people as "privileged" and unworthy of advocacy or protection either as a group or as individuals.Non-racism used to be judging people "not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Or demonstrated capabilities for a given job or position. Do you really think that a white man who loses a job to a lesser-qualified person on the basis of sex, or race, or some other trait that's "underrepresented", has not been personally harmed? Who are you to sacrifice people for your notion of "social justice"?
Quoth FishyFred:
Tell that to West Virginians.There are plenty of disadvantaged people out there, and just because some of them are invisible to you because their skin is pale it does not mean they don't exist. It's time this country got over the obsession with color.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | November 12, 2008 8:00 PM
Engineer-poet, you're quite wrong in your assessment. Though you have people who are, of course, quite poor and disadvantaged regardless of race, you don't have whites who are poor and disadvantaged because of their race. You don't have systematic legal and extra-legal attempts to make certain that poor whites remain poor whites. You don't have legal and extra-legal attempts to make certain that they are denied education, denied employment, denied political representation, refused service in businesses, the list goes on and on.
You do have all of these systematic attempts to enforce inequity on effectively all of the minority groups and those groups are still working to recover from those policies.
That is the fundamental flaw in your argument. Overall, as a demographic, "white" Americans are the dominant group. They are over represented in Congress, prior to January 20th, 2009, 100% of all American presidents have been white Americans, they have dominated the courts, federal, state, and local governments, dominate the major businesses, etc. As a group, you cannot argue that white Americans enjoy effectively all of the benefits of our system. Like any group you can point to individuals in the group who have not enjoyed that success, but it isn't because of their being white and again, there aren't systematic efforts to maintain their poverty based upon racial arguments that they are inferior, etc.
Posted by: dogmeatib | November 12, 2008 9:18 PM
Quoth dogmeatib:
Am I?Alan Bakke was disadvantaged because he was white, denied entry to law school in favor of someone less qualified. He was one of many at Michigan, and Michigan is one of many schools practicing discrimination.
"But he wasn't poor!" Point. But what about all the working-class whites who can no longer get jobs in construction or meatpacking because they've been frozen out by Mexicans? After immigration raids freed up some of those jobs, all sorts of people applied. They'd been working at places like WalMart, or not at all. There are no jobs that Americans won't do, there are only jobs that have been made unavailable by discrimination or bid down by illegal competition.
What's the widespread employment of illegal aliens, if not extra-legal attempts to keep poor citizens (whites included) down?Bakke et al. I might not have made it into my own university were I not the child of two alumni. The admissions system was later ruled illegal.
Affirmative action.
Who represents whites in Detroit?
You mean, like minority set-asides in contracting, the SBA, the immigrant-only loan programs which have pushed US citizens out of the motel business, etc?
Yes, it does.
I'm not saying that Jim Crow didn't exist. The problem is, it ceased to exist over 40 years ago! "Antidiscrimination" has now become a blanket denial that all kinds of dysfunctions exist among the once-disadvantaged. It is acceptable to sneer at Bristol Palin (which I do, because she's not educated enough to be a good example to her children), but not at the non-white single mother with 4 children... even if she's an illegal immigrant. It is time to hold everyone to ONE standard, and accept no excuses.
And maybe there's some behavioral reason behind that. Not all behaviors, or cultures, or anything else are equal. It's time to quit using the "racism" slur against anyone who points that out.Posted by: Engineer-Poet | November 12, 2008 11:09 PM
RE: white Presidents club
Well, not so much actually Dogmeatib, Warren G Harding may have been half Black* see here+ and here. And that's a pretty shallow search, I'm sure others can find earlier examples. -DJ
*Yes, not a good role model I admit
+'LiesofOurTimes' is not a great example either, again "Beggars can't be choosers" as the saying goes.
Posted by: DingoJack | November 12, 2008 11:12 PM
Lincoln would be so proud, wouldn't he?
Posted by: Nemo | November 13, 2008 12:04 AM
Posted by: Beowulff | November 13, 2008 7:54 AM
First, Bakke was not trying to get into the University of Michigan. He was trying to get into the University of California Medical School (UC Davis, specifically). While that error might seem minor, it suggests you're repeating talking points you've heard elsewhere, rather than actually knowing wtf you're talking about.
Second, it was clearly demonstrated that the med school received more qualified applicants than it could accept, so some of them had to be rejected, regardless of affirmative action. Bakke was unable to demonstrate that his rejection was specifically because "his" spot was going to a minority. Nevertheless, the Court struck down the school's affirmative action admission scheme because race was too dominant a factor.
And it's manifestly true that colleges and universities don't admit purely on merit. Many use set asides for children of alums, who otherwise might not meet the standards. And when we are talking of medical schools, there may be good reason to actively recruit non-whites--to try to ensure that the minority community also has doctors.
And, of course, you ignore the fact that Bakke was probably more privileged than most minority kids in California. You focus on how he was qualified for med school--was that because he had the privilege of going to better schools than the minority kids did? If so, then even though he was at first denied admission to his preferred med school, he had benefited from being white.
So piss off with your "poor oppressed whites" bullshit. I'm not impressed.
Posted by: James Hanley | November 13, 2008 8:02 AM
Just one question. Did some one leave the asylum door open, if they did they should be fired
Posted by: Ex Partiot | November 13, 2008 8:09 AM
Just one question. Did some one leave the asylum door open, if they did they should be fired
Posted by: Ex Partiot | November 13, 2008 8:37 AM
I would agree that all NAAWP groups, at least the groups I've read about, are probably racist, I disagree that there is some sort a law of nature that states that any "anti-white-persecution" group must be racist. I believe that an honest, non-racist person could conclude that stringently enforced anti-discrimination laws are righteous, necessary and also sufficient, but that additional affirmative action mandates cross the line.
The bottom line is that affirmative action is based on "the greater good." And "the greater good" always implies that someone sacrifices for the greater good. And in the case of affirmative action, that is usually white men (and sometimes Asian-Americans, e.g., with respect to college admissions). I believe that one could, at least in theory, organize a group opposed to affirmative action without being racist.
Posted by: heddle | November 13, 2008 8:42 AM
I apologize for the double post
Posted by: Ex Partiot | November 13, 2008 8:49 AM
Even if one were to accept that argument, it's still not an instance of white people being oppressed simply for being white, which is why you have "whites included" in parentheses. Do you even understand your own arguments?
Posted by: Dunc | November 13, 2008 9:06 AM
It is utterly bizarre to call this discrimination. If Mexicans looked like Norwegians, they would still be hired in preference to US citizens because their employers can pay them so little. It has nothing to do with their skin colour, and everything to do with economics.
And who the heck do you think is paying the illegal immigrants anyway, some secret cabal of dark-skinned corporate bosses? Of course not, it is companies all over America, companies whose corporate heads are overwhelmingly white. Are you saying that corporate America is somehow discriminating against whites?
Your world must be a very confusing and frightening place -- fortunately, it overlaps very little with everyone else's.
Posted by: Tulse | November 13, 2008 9:54 AM
I do not claim that there are instances of white people being oppressed for being white, but I do know that there is an extreme under-representation of white people in all areas of society. I mean can you name any white people at all besides Edgar and Johnny Winter? That is, before you rush to Wikipedia and look up "Lists of Albinos."
Poor attempt at humor aside, is there an objective standard for what behavior or speech is racist? Ed's blog has been filled up with examples of individual and group racism, especially since the moment Obama appeared to have a chance of being a contender for the nomination, but is there really any institutional racism still going on in America?
Here's an example of what I would not call racist, even though others have: Some Republican Party operatives tried to make it difficult for African-Americans to vote in some precincts in the last election. That behavior is not inherently racist, but is primarily motivated by the desire to suppress the votes of people most likely to vote for the Democrats, rather than to suppress the votes of African-Americans per se. If African-Americans were a noted Republican-leaning constituency, would such efforts have been attempted? How were Asian-Americans treated?
Do previous crimes committed by people of one group against another require some form of compensation for the decedents of the oppressed group from the decedents of the oppressors?
What is the logical argument that because there is not a proportional representation of people of "race" X in an occupation or institution in relation to their occurrence in the general population, then the reason for the "under-representation" is racism?
What "race" is Barrack Obama, anyway? How about my kids whose mother is from China, and who is a mix of Han, Manchu and Korean, and whose father is from Montana and who has German, Irish, Swedish and rumored Peigan ancestors, what race are they?
Posted by: RedHairBlueSkin | November 13, 2008 10:02 AM
Sorry, the last two sentences in the third paragraph were not meant to be italicized.
Posted by: RedHairBlueSkin | November 13, 2008 10:10 AM
wow... Mr. Gray shows the type of genius usually reserved for razor-eating contests.
Thanks for the post.
One Love,
--Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire
Posted by: Reverend Manny | November 13, 2008 10:47 AM
Funny, he looks to me like Casper's unfriendly cousin.
Posted by: Marc | November 15, 2008 8:34 AM
Aww how cute, little Randy Gray wearing his halloween costume.
But why in hell did he dress up like a bowling pin?
Quick! Get me that 25lb ball, I'll fix this split. -DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | November 15, 2008 10:08 AM
Engineer-poet: "Bakke et al. I might not have made it into my own university were I not the child of two alumni. The admissions system was later ruled illegal."
Ah-HAH! You were a legacy. And you somehow fail to see that the very notion of admitting the children of alumni is . . . wait for it . . . AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR WHITE PEOPLE. Let's face it, would George W. Bush have been accepted to Yale, given his (let's be kind) paucity of qualifications, if his father weren't George H.W. Bush? W. took the spot of a more qualified candidate, without a doubt. What color was the more qualified candidate? Who knows. But there is absolutely no doubt that the set-asides for legacies are preferential treatment for white kids who otherwise would not be eligible for admission.
Aren't you ashamed of being admitted to a university based on your heritage, rather than on your merits?
Posted by: Leigh Williams | December 5, 2008 10:28 AM
I have noticed if thousands of illegal aliens assemble shaking their fists demanding rights and the majority of Americans roll over in a Jello form. Outcry is silenced! I have also noticed Rev. Wright, Al Sharpton, Jessee Jackson and other open rasist and hipocrits get a free pass from the majority of Americas and the media. America has no real confirmation that we have not elected an Illegal alien as president, with the support of Oprah & Wright and the media.
Why can’t a white person engage in simular activities? This is the story of the day? Journalist should have been sticking their thumb in the eye of the currupt forces controling our mock democracy! Ed Brayton is pumping out propaganda, a skid mark in the shorts of American journalism.
Randy Gray represents America more than congessman and senators, too bad you have to be so smart to understand that.
I am inspired to join Randy Gray as you should be.
Posted by: Roughwaytogo | January 31, 2009 12:56 PM
This guy's head must have exploded when he found out that, in the two months since he was elected a Michigan delegate and started wearing his Casper suit in public, the national party elected a black guy party chairman (even if the cynic in me tells me he's a token.) Something I've always wanted to ask these guys: whose idea was it to spell "clan" with a k, and exactly what is a "ku klux"?
Posted by: Raymond Minton | January 31, 2009 1:17 PM
Roughwaytogo - Learn how to spell and form complete sentences before posting here again. After that we'll tackle logic.
Posted by: Taz | January 31, 2009 2:18 PM