The Eternal Optics Debate: Lesson Of The White Citizen Councils
The middle and working class split in racial politics is nothing new. Until the middle class accepts that there can be no ‘respectable’ opposition to ZOG and joins up with their working class brothers, there will be no progress.
The first White Citizen’s Council was formed in Indianola, Mississippi in 1954. Organizing the “better element” of “decent” and “solid” southern racists, the movement spread rapidly, claiming a membership of 250,000 to 300,000 by 1957. Supported by a majority of southern whites, the councils aimed at overturning the Brown decision and defending the southern “way of life,” that is, racial segregation.
Attracting affluent and influential southerners, the councils stressed legal resistance and distanced themselves from the activities of “the lunatics” populating the then revived Ku Klux Klan(s). Klan members’ purported insanity was not due to their racist ideology, as the councils considered racism sane, antiracism absurd. The disassociation was primarily an issue of tactics and public relations, not of worldview or aims. In any case, the councils held Klan members in contempt as irrational, violence prone, and lowbrow.
“Council members succeeded in convincing themselves and often their opponents that there were such a thing as ‘good’ racists and ‘bad’ racists,” Klan historian Evelyn Rich (1988) notes. “The councils had succeeded in convincing themselves and nearly everyone else, that a gas station attendant who went out and beat up a nigger for belonging to the NAACP has nothing whatsoever in common with a factory owner who fired a colored worker for the same crime” (1988). While evidence of overlapping membership between the councils and the Klan indicates that at least some racial activists saw the distinction as complementary rather than contradictory, this does not obliterate the fact that a significant split among white racists did originate with the emergence of these two separate organizations.
Anxious to stay within the borders of acceptable public discourse, the house broken segment of white racism began a process of semantic cryptification. Replacing the word race with culture, ideologues of this variety not infrequently found themselves elected to office, and some still have a discernible influence, although they have been unable to reverse American society to what it once was.
-Mattias Gardell, excerpted from “Gods of the Blood: Pagan Revival and White Separatism” (2003)