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So this just seems to be an antiwhite/Christian movement.

Melvin Meyer, Jewish Editor of CRIMSON WHITE,
U. of Alabama Student Newspaper

The Biography of Joe Levin, the Jewish Co-Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center which is located at the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center states that the persecution of a Jewish student at the University of Alabama, Melvin Meyer, one of Mr. Levin's Jewish Fraternity brothers, allegedly caused him to consider starting an anti-white legal center to persecute white organizations, a law center which would concentrate in a large part on extremist white groups as seen in Mr. Levin's statement, "Over time, that one incident forced me to re-evaluate the traditional southern attitude I'd grown up with." Thus, the Southern Poverty Law Center's origination point may have been a reaction by a Jewish lawyer to an incident in which another Jew was involved.

The same Southern Poverty Law Center website points out that Morris Dees was the Law Partner of Joe Levin prior to their deciding to start the Southern Poverty Law Center, stating, "Dees and his law partner Joseph J. Levin, Jr. saw the need for a non-profit organization dedicated to seeking justice. In 1971, the two lawyers and civil rights activist Julian Bond founded the Southern Poverty Law Center."

In the early 1960s, Joe Levin saw his University of [Melvin Meyer] Alabama fraternity brother persecuted for expressing unpopular views. Fellow students and the community at-large taunted Melvin Meyer, editor of the school newspaper, the Crimson White, because he courageously argued in favor of integration at a time when Alabama Governor George Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse door" to prevent black students from enrolling at the state's largest college.

The harassment directed at Meyer peaked when the Ku Klux Klan burned a 12-foot cross in front of Levin's Jewish fraternity house in the early morning hours..

"Over time, that one incident forced me to re-evaluate the traditional southern attitude I'd grown up with," Levin says.

Is it possible that the Southern Poverty Law Center was begun more to protect Jewish rights than Black rights based upon the statement of Joe Levin that he was greatly influenced by a symbolic and metaphorical freedom of speech and freedom of religion expression performed by the Ku Klux Klan "in front of Levin's Jewish fraternity house in the early morning hours" at the University of Alabama?

To be honest, the answer probably does not matter.

Nevertheless, a book might be written on that subject, or, perhaps a university graduate thesis for an interested student on the subject of "just what causes a civil rights law center to begin?"

Southern Poverty Law Center's
Claimed Support Base

The Southern Poverty Law Center claims that it receives huge sums of money from a support base of 400,000 contributors. This claim is found on the SPLC Information Page.

However, since the SPLC is not government sponsored, its files may not be available for public inspection.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has done a lot of good work to fight the Klan in the south. It might not be on the right side of this issue, but it's one of the few liberal groups that I don't abhore. They've actually been very productive in seizing assets of the Klan, which is a good thing.

I don't think this was the work of the SPLC. The news says that it's the ACLU and it certainly has all the hallmarks of knee-jerk ACLU activity.

I have to tell you that I disagree with your post. Any suggestion that the Southern Poverty Law Center is controlled by or oriented toward "jewish rights" is inaccurate and may come from sources that are more than vaguely anti-semitic. (Mind you, I'm not saying you or your post -- I just don't trust those sources.) A lot of the Klan that the SPLC fought against would make such an argument. I don't think it has factual merit.

As I said in a previous post, this whole issue with the Ten Commandments has all the fingerprints of the ACLU on it.