Posted on 10/23/2005 9:59:10 AM PDT by Danae
Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement
Oct. 20, 2005 — Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.
They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.
Known as "Prussian Blue" — a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes — the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine.
"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx. "We want our people to stay white … we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."
Lynx and Lamb have been nurtured on racist beliefs since birth by their mother April. "They need to have the background to understand why certain things are happening," said April, a stay-at-home mom who no longer lives with the twins' father. "I'm going to give them, give them my opinion just like any, any parent would."
April home-schools the girls, teaching them her own unique perspective on everything from current to historical events. In addition, April's father surrounds the family with symbols of his beliefs — specifically the Nazi swastika. It appears on his belt buckle, on the side of his pick-up truck and he's even registered it as his cattle brand with the Bureau of Livestock Identification.
"Because it's provocative," explains April of the cattle brand, "to him he thinks it's important as a symbol of freedom of speech that he can use it as his cattle brand."
Teaching Hate
Songs like "Sacrifice" — a tribute to Nazi Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuhrer — clearly show the effect of the girls' upbringing. The lyrics praise Hess as a "man of peace who wouldn't give up."
"It really breaks my heart to see those two girls spewing out that kind of garbage," said Ted Shaw, civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund — though Shaw points out that the girls aren't espousing their own opinions but ones they're being taught.
On that point, April Gaede and Ted Shaw apparently agree.
"Well, all children pretty much espouse their parents' attitudes," she said. "We're white nationalists and of course that's a part of our life and I'm going to share that part of my life with my children."
Since they began singing, the girls have become such a force in the white nationalist movement, that David Duke — the former presidential candidate, one-time Ku-Klux-Klan grand wizard and outspoken white supremacist — uses the twins to draw a crowd.
Prussian Blue supporter Erich Gliebe, operator of one of the nation's most notorious hate music labels, Resistance Records, hopes younger performers like Lynx and Lamb will help expand the base of the White Nationalist cause.
"Eleven and 12 years old," he said, "I think that's the perfect age to start grooming kids and instill in them a strong racial identity."
Gliebe, who targets young, mainstream white rockers at music festivals like this past summer's "Ozzfest," says he uses music to get his message out.
But with names like Blue-Eyed Devils and Angry Aryans, these tunes are far more extreme than the ones sung by Lamb and Lynx.
"We give them a CD, we give them something as simple as a stick, they can go to our Web site and see other music and download some of our music," said Gliebe. "To me, that's the best propaganda tool for our youth."
A Taste for Hate
Gliebe says he hopes that as younger racist listeners mature, so will their tastes for harder, angrier music like that of Shawn Sugg of Max Resist.
One of Sugg's songs is a fantasy piece about a possible future racial war that goes: "Let the cities burn, let the streets run red, if you ain't white you'll be dead."
"I'd like to compare it to gangsta rap," explained Sugg, "where they glorify, you know, shooting n****** and pimping whores."
Sugg shrugs off criticism that music like his should not be handed out to schoolyard children, arguing that "it's just music, it's not like you're handing out AK-47s."
Perhaps not, but Shaw says it's the ideas in the music that are dangerous.
"When you talk about people being dead if they're not white," said Shaw, "I don't think there is much question that that is hateful."
A Place to Call Home
Despite the success of Prussian Blue and bands like Max Resist within the White Nationalism movement, most Americans don't accept their racist message.
Like many children across the country, Lamb and Lynx decided to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina — the white ones.
The girls' donations were handed out by a White Nationalist organization who also left a pamphlet promoting their group and beliefs — some of the intended recipients were more than a little displeased.
After a day of trying, the supplies ended up with few takers, dumped at a local shop that sells Confederate memorabilia.
Last month, the girls were scheduled to perform at the local county fair in their hometown. But when some people in the community protested, Prussian Blue was removed from the line-up.
But even before that, April had decided that Bakersfield was not "white" enough, so she sold her home, and hopes that she and the girls can find an all-white community in the Pacific Northwest.
Until you're willing to condemn them, racism will continue breeding. And black racists come in for plenty of criticism on this site.
The "Klan with a Tan" will continue to get a pass from the MSM but we don't have to. We can go after them. But we should not, under any circumstances, give the twins a pass.
D,Think of white racists as a "mirror" image of black racists.What about the Rev Farakhan?He's free to speak,and he even get's coverage by the msm and cable.As far as the girls are concerned."Exploitation"?Most likely they'll just be a "flash in the pan" novelty act.I don't see any harm in it.It'll probably be a good experience for them,and who knows,maybe make a few bucks at the same time:)
Make no mistake, this white man does not approve of the ideals of the twins. I condemn these ideas. I condemn the ideas of the white separatists. And I condemn the ideas of the rappers and the blingers. It's all bad. I will not, in any case, give a free pass to one side over the other.
You speak with wisdom. :)
It's "consensus" that they are considered "nut jobs" on this thread, right? You sure about that? Are you 100% sure?
Consensus as in “general agreement or accord”? Yes, I’d say there is a consensus. Am I 100% sure about the consensus? No, it is just my impression from the general feel of the threads that I read. Perhaps you can develop an algorithm to determine, with 100% accuracy, the hearts and minds of others? Or were you just being sarcastic?
Now let's look at something you said more closely. You said, "It is extremely frustrating to see the rappers and black leadership spew..."
That should result in a run-time error for those of us on the Right. Why do we have those among us who insist on giving these morons any legitimacy whatsoever? Jesse, Al, and their ilk should be thought of as nothing more than spokesmen for their own views. They are not elected.
Again, my comments were in the context of the MSM. I agree, and have made the same argument, that these clowns have no legitimacy. However, it the minds of the media and lefties, they have legitimacy. I should have said something like, “So-called leadership”. For that I apologize. I had forgotten how legalistic and nit-picky these debates can become.
There is good news, however. We now know who the idiots are. We can immediately discount their opinions as the rantings of disgruntled racists. There is something to be said for litmus tests.
Spoken like a true democrat. Label and dismiss anyone who doesn’t agree with you. Again, if a conservative starts behaving like the liberals that we all despise, what makes him/her any better?
It is a sad commentary that one cannot even point out the ridiculous and unfair race-baiting of the MSM without being labeled as the “rantings of disgruntled racists”.
For the record, I condemn these girls’ activities. They are indeed anti-American. Also, anyone who labels a person due to their race is, IMHO, a moron.
Wisdom maybe, but of a sad sort.
Funny how everything you hate begins with White...
I'm not crazy about the White Stripes
I've heard they really do whiten your teeth.....
Looks like these stupid white-trash Nazis are raising their ugly heads again. I agree, keep these nuts out of the Northwest.
Pitiful excuse for parents.
Just an observation, notice those that promote ethnic supremacy are usually are people that are of inferior intelligence.
I do like White Castle...
Oh totally. Those who want to bask in the glow of the supposed superiority of their race are incapable of doing anything as individuals, so they need to affirm their tribal identity as belonging to a particular sub-group. In that group identity alone do they feel secure. I expect these two girls to become breeding sluts for the white supremacists.
Damn, I shot my load with the white strips...I got nothing.
It's all a conspiracy. White Castle burgers = belly bombers. Hamburgers originated in Germany.Dresden was fire bombed. White Castle also sells French Fries with burgers. The victims of Dresden were fried. The bombs were released from the bellies of the bombers.
It all ties together, except for the fillet of fish.
Sub groups like african-americans... black panthers... asian-americans... ect?
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