Don't ignore supremacist flier, Kenny Stokes' comments

Characters from the fringe have increased efforts to spread racial venom in the metropolitan area.

In an apparent response to divisive remarks from a Jackson councilman, a flier headlined, "Wake up White America," purportedly from a white supremacist group, has surfaced in the area.

The literature, believed to be distributed in some south Jackson neighborhoods, includes an editorial and cartoon from this newspaper challenging Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth I. Stokes' recent racial rhetoric. Such immature interaction is nauseating but, if ignored by those who know better, can be destructive.

It is tempting to ignore the demagoguery from both ends, but that's no longer an option. Neither Stokes nor the Klan are the real issues. They are simply symptoms of our inattention to racial reconciliation and our embrace of a polite policy, to go along to get along.

Atonement is how best to disarm people like Stokes and counter organizations like the Klan.

Let's start with the flier, for which Phil Clark, who identified himself as the grand kaliss for Orion Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, takes credit. Clark said he doesn't want to hurt or harm but believes in racial purity and wants to unite the white race.

The flier asserts that had Stokes been Trent Lott, he would have been chased from town for his comments about Jackson's redistricting, which Stokes believed should be done in a manner to minimize whites.

Stokes also has questioned efforts to annex the Byram community, saying that too many white residents could hurt efforts to reelect a black mayor.

This thinking is warped, but for several reasons, there is no comparing Stokes to Trent Lott, once one of the most powerful men in America and still a member of its most exclusive club.

Racism is synonymous with power, or the ability to make things change or maintain the status quo. Since its inception, power in America has been controlled by people like Lott, who acknowledged under duress his complicity in our current racial condition.

Stokes has influence but he doesn't have any power. He may not be a racist but he is indeed a racial demagogue who sometimes uses his position to feed the anger and frustration bred by generations of racism.

It is interesting that Stokes has called The Clarion-Ledger and the Ku Klux Klan "a perfect fit."

That's ludicrous. The newspaper on more than one occasion has acknowledged its complicity in some of the worst chapters in the state's history. Today it is one of the most diverse news organizations in the country, with several people of color in positions of influence.

In Mississippi, people of goodwill can not concede race questions to racists and racial reactionaries. They must engage.

The state must seek redemption for Jim Crow, poll taxes, lynchings, segregation and the general inhumane environment halted chiefly by the federal courts.

When Secretary of State Dick Molpus apologized for the three murders in Philadelphia, he was scalded by then-Gov. Kirk Fordice.

Mississippi, in a meaningful manner, must confess its sins and repent. This is the best antidote to people like Stokes and groups like the Klan.

Racism is about power, huh? You mean like how if I criticize "Black History Month" at my job I can be fired? You mean how unqualified applicants in all manner of schools, government and professions get accepted over qualified white applicants every single day? Who has the power now?

Exactly.

BBC had an interesting spot on the situation in Zimbabwe a few weeks ago. I note parenthetically that our big media never seem to cover these sorts of stories.

In that spot, BBC showed a television address that President Mugabe made to white Zimbabweans after he came to power about 20 years ago. He said something to the effect that "you may hate me, but you cannot escape the love that I have for you, my fellow countrymen" and similar things. Whites' property was to be respected. No repraisals. We keep the justice system, and so forth.

That's what Mugabe said while he hadn't yet consolidated power. Then 20 years later they showed him frothing at the mouth about getting even with whites, and it's all about power, etc. He even grew out a little Hitler mustache! I couldn't believe that. A black guy inpersonating Der Fuerher. A matching set of two little tinpot dictators with dreams of grandeur, one Salt the other Pepper. I almost croaked.

How could any Brit watch that and not draw the obvious conclusion that diversity isn't exactly - ahem! - England's strength? How could any of us watch that and fail to understand that all this talk about "racism" being bad and evil and sick only applies to whites, and that liberals do everything they can to stir up racist resentment among non-whites?

It is all about power for them. That's what the Democrats' Racial Extortion Coalition is all about. Stir up racial feeling among minorities, and get them to vote as a block. This is the pitch they're making toward Mexicans now.

Cruz Bustamante isn't an American, IMHO. In his heart he's a Mexican, and a Mexican patriot at that. A man cannot serve two masters, and Cruz chooses to advance the interests of Mexicans and Mexico at the expense of Americans and America. Now, a Mexican is certainly a fine thing to be, in Mexico. Or even in America, so long as you don't vote, abide by the laws, and not run for governor of California.

How can we be such fools?

I mean, look at the old footage of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. That scene was very carefully staged. Note well that behind him stand Nation of Islam troopers, in full view. There's no doubt about what that meant to everybody except gullible whites: "I talk nice while I don't have power, but as soon as I do have power watch out, chump."

MLK had a dream, and it surely did not include whites like me. We mouth a lot of nonsense about that, but the fact is that California is being ethnically cleansed of whites, and we're all such a bunch of sheep that we can't even say what it is.

What fools we are.

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