--- Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> sigh...
>
>
> Census data stir up white supremacists
>
> By Patrick McMahon, USA TODAY
>
>
>
> Click to see our interactive portrait of the nation
>
> SEATTLE — Census data showing increased racial
> diversity in the USA are providing fuel for white
> supremacists and outspoken foes of illegal
> immigration.
>
> "THE CENSUS PROVES WE ARE BEING INVADED," says an
> e-mail alert sent to 8,000 supporters by the
> American
> Patrol, run by a Sherman Oaks, Calif., organization
> that opposes illegal immigration.
>
> "This is not a rehearsal. This is the real thing,"
> wrote group leader Glenn Spencer, who says his
> organization is multiethnic and not a hate group.
> "The
> numbers are in, and there is no doubt. If we do not
> speak out now in the face of this reality, we
> deserve
> to be overwhelmed."
>
> Similar alerts have been part of e-mails, Web pages
> and news summaries circulated by other groups after
> 2000 Census figures showed a surge in Hispanics and
> other minority groups.
>
> "I have no doubt that the 2000 Census will light up
> the right," says Mark Potok, spokesman for the
> Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors such
> groups from its base in Montgomery, Ala.
>
> The number of Hispanics grew almost 60% since 1990
> to
> 35.3 million. Non-Hispanic whites' share of the
> population dropped to 69% from 76% in 1990.
> Minorities
> accounted for almost 80% of the increase in U.S.
> population.
>
> Many white supremacist groups have long decried
> growing multiculturalism, and they have seized on
> Census reports to support their contention that
> minorities are flooding the nation.
>
> Matt Hale, head of the white supremacist World
> Church
> of the Creator, based in East Peoria, Ill., e-mailed
> a
> news report of Census findings to supporters with a
> subject line, "Brown Invaders Proliferate."
>
> "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to extrapolate
> the
> final result of the demographic changes that have
> taken place just in the 1990s — the white race in
> the
> United States is facing extinction," says World
> Church
> activist John Bash of New York City, who said the
> message went to about 3,000 supporters.
>
> Watchdog organizations said they aren't surprised by
> the reactions of white supremacist groups.
>
> "The Census fits perfectly into their world view,
> and
> they have latched onto it as proof," says Devin
> Burghart, head of the anti-bigotry project of the
> Center for New Community, a faith-based group in
> Chicago. "The United States is becoming a truly
> multicultural, multiethnic, pluralistic democracy.
> It's something we should cherish. It benefits us
> all."
>
> Spencer of American Patrol says, "I don't think
> America really knows what it is up against in coping
> with illegal immigration. It will unfold as the
> greatest challenge to our integrity as a nation
> since
> the Civil War."
>
> His group seeks tighter immigration controls.
>
> He is urging supporters to demand that President
> Bush
> "close the border and deport all illegal aliens."
>
>
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> Kevin Dean
> Buffalo, NY
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