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.
...plus, they had snappy uniforms.
How about insignificant scrawny creepy small-minded dweeb?
Fascists always seem to have good uniforms - Blackshirts in Italy, Brownshirts in Germany and Silvershirts here in the USA. Saddam even hired a fashion designer to his army's uniforms...
Actually the commies tried to come up with snappy uniforms, but they only issued their troops one greatcoat - so the poor guys had to cut off and replace the shiny brass dress uniform buttons with plastic field buttons when they went into the field and replace them when they went back into garrison... Still, they had great hats!
The snappy uniforms etc. disguise the fact that there's not much to the philosophical under-pinnings or that the politics are in opposition to human nature, basic morality etc. It's theater. Performance art.
True! Only difference is, whites will fall all over themselves to condemn the white supremacists.
I remember years ago when David Bowie was caught with a bunch of Nazi uniforms and other crap in his country house. It was a big scandal, but made perfect sense. He was drawn to the theatrical element of the stuff.
Carolyn
The double standard in this (and so much more) is readily evident in the MSM reaction to "white hate groups" as opposed to the lack of reaction when other groups express their hatred.
I despise such hypocrisy.
I can think of better things to do than try and convert those who wish to sacrifice their lives on the altar of self-worship, regardless of who or what they are, nor would I wish to expend my time hating them for their hatred of others.
There is a better way to live, and perhaps living it will provide a more desirable paradigm for those who are so spiritually bereft that they will buy into such nonsense.
Great pic.Simply adorable.
Don't be so quick to jump ship and join DU. What you are perceiving as racism is simply a lot of white people fed up with the abhorrent double standard. No one here loves Hitler or wants to join the Aryan Nation. No one.
What is apparent is that there are many of us completely fed up with the toleration of blatant racism coming from some blacks, vs the instant condemnation of racism coming from some whites. Neither is right and both must be soundly condemned.
Yes, it's true that we should immediately condemn the white racist community such as the message coming from these girls (and their parents). I condemn it, we all condemn it. Don't label us as racists or idiots if we dare to point out the elephant in the room.
Now this comment is completely unrelated to the Hitlerian racism coming from the twins. Understand? Unrelated. Let's take for example Time Magazine's 'smartest rapper in the world' Kanye West. His brilliance includes his latest song 'Gold Digger' whose lyrics include and rhyme with you-know-what and promotes the drug-cognac-bling-rap lifestyle. Let's examine Professor Kamau Kambon who wants to exterminate the white people. Let's listen if we can stand it to any speaker at the recent Millions More March.
Now again, these are unrelated to the bigotry being expressed by the twins. Unrelated. But yet, they all get a pass. They get awards and contracts. They get accolades and applause. And I for one don't like it, I don't like it one bit.
So you see, my problem (and I'm sure I speak for others here) is not with the obviously hateful message being sent by these 2 girls, but with the pervasive message being broadcast from so many in the black community. And no, I don't lump all black people together any more than I would for whites. This is all ignorant and bad. All of it.
Don't judge anyone who dares to discuss the issues of race as a racist or an idiot. This board is meant to be able to discuss the difficult things. We're neither racists nor ignorant, we want to end all that BS from both sides. If you want to label people unfairly, discount what they have to say and ignore their input, FR is not the place for you. We're here to talk about the tough things, like them or not. I'm ready to listen to your opinions.
Pride? Expressed by a a musical group named after the gas used to kill Jews in the camps. Wearing Hitler T Shirts. There's no racist message there?
Well said. Supremely well said.
You and me both.
You and me both.
Ditto. Don't their critics respect "diversity?"
Aryan Man Awake
by Lamb and Lynx
Where freedom exists for only those with darker skin,
Where lies and propaganda will never let you win.
Where symbols of your heritage are held with such contempt,
And benefits of country ’cept tax are you exempt.
Aryan man awake,
How much more will you take,
Turn that fear to hate,
Aryan man awake.
That's simply disgusting.
What kind of people buy that crap and put it in their CD players?
Those are totally photoshopped.
Very well put.
Some hyper-sensitive souls here are a little too anxious to label others as "racist" simply because we are fed up with the cultural and media double standard.
Racism is evil. Racism is sin. It is always wrong and to be condemned, regardless of the color of the offender or offendee.
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