On April 21, the US Justice Department filed charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, commonly known as the SPLC. The SPLC was established in 1971 by Morris Dees and Joseph Levin. Dees and Levin were able to build SPLC into a major legal combatant against what it considered racial injustice. Over the years, the SPLC would search for illegal or violent crimes committed by those who would be identified as White Supremacists. When “White Supremacists” were discovered, the SPLC would highlight these individuals or organizations, stoking fear in minority communities as fundraising props. As a result, the SPLC, Morris Dees, and Joseph Levine became extremely wealthy.
It has taken a while, but the Justice Department is finally agreeing with what The Knights Party has been claiming, even as far back as when David Duke was our National Director. We have long identified the SPLC as the real hate group against white Christians. On March 9, 1991, I organized a large protest and march in Montgomery, Alabama, against the anti-white hate of the SPLC. I think the estimated number of people attending the protest was about 750, though the leftist media underreported it. This protest at the doorstep of the SPLC may have been the impetus for the 1994 Montgomery Advertiser’s six-part series questioning the SPLC’s sketchy fundraising tactics. In 1995, The Montgomery Advertiser was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the exposé. It is difficult to put out an actual figure, but perhaps the Justice Department will be able to determine how many millions of dollars were raised from poor black families based on the unjustified fear created by the SPLC. In fact, over the decades, numerous black employees of SPLC have accused the law center of discrimination and harassment. (Who are the real supremacists? SPLC?)
It is interesting that this news is just now coming out when we, and others such as Dr. Fields in his publication The Thunderbolt, have been stating this for decades. Why is that? We all know the left has no trouble throwing its own under the bus when its usefulness has expired. The assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 is certainly a likelihood, as well as the recent issue of sexual “misconduct” by Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell. I understand his sexual escapades have been well known for years, but as long as he stayed in his lane, he was protected. However, when he decided to run for governor, he stepped out of his lane and was thus discarded.
Is it possible that the accusation of SPLC funding some KKK groups, so-called Aryan Nations-affiliated biker gangs, and neo-Nazis is a sign that our message starting to penetrate into the general white population? Is the SPLC now being thrown under the bus in an effort to discredit our voice, hoping people will think the message of White Christian Nationalism is just the creation of leftist, Communists, Democrats, and progressives?
It is well known that the SPLC has barely mentioned The Knights Party in the last 20-25 years. Once The Knights restructured its outreach away from street demonstrations and toward online communication, family and member networks, active involvement in community and civic volunteer work, and direct participation in the political and electoral process, the SPLC largely stopped paying attention. Without the visual spectacle of uniforms and rallies, the group no longer provided the dramatic imagery that SPLC fundraising depends on. Average Christian families serving their communities simply doesn’t create the kind of alarm the SPLC uses to sustain its narrative.
Furthermore, it is well known throughout the greater white nationalist/patriotic cause that The Knights Party vehemently denounces violence to achieve its goals. It is a fact that has even been verified by the FBI. In the early 2000s, The Knights testified on behalf of Robert Henderson, an eighteen-year veteran of the Nebraska Highway Patrol, before a special hearing and arbitrator from New York. He had been wrongly terminated and was represented by his union. The special arbitrator reinstated Henderson in an agreed-upon, binding arbitration between the parties. The state attorney general then entered the case, as did the state supreme court, which apparently does not understand the legal basis for “binding arbitration.” Mr. Henderson was never found to have violated anyone’s rights and had provided excellent service to his department.
Excerpts from the Arbitrator’s Decision:
“It is also significant that the group which the grievant joined was ultimately led by Thomas Robb, one of the more well known KKK leaders…the group the grievant joined, while holding ideals largely discredited by the majority of society..had shunned violence and illegal activity. This was not some shadowy unknown group about which little was known”
“The record shows no act of violence or criminal activity even alleged let alone proved against the group the grievant joined, The Knights Party.”
“The arbitrator is perplexed that the agency did not copy more of the Knights Party website…if the website was filled with content that was objectionable.”
Obviously, with such a track record of professionalism and non-violence, even recognized by the DOJ, the SPLC needed to create and fund scapegoats to scare their donors and keep the money pouring in. This is also why we continue to denounce violence and violent rhetoric. It is NOT useful to our cause, and ONLY HELPS the enemy. Others have called The Knights “soft” or not hard-core enough. However, our tactics, which are none other than demonstrating Christian character in all we do, are the ONLY legitimate means of achieving White Christian Revival, and our longevity in a movement that sees groups come and go, further illustrates that our continued growth is the result of our focus on uniting like-minded white Christian families and individuals under the banner of race, faith, and homeland!
Those of us in the White Christian Nationalist movement have stated many times over the years that the SPLC creates individuals and crazy splinter groups in an effort to marginalize legitimate Christian conservatives. These groups had to be created because Conservative Christians, like members of The Knights Party, were not creating the right kind of violent props the SPLC needed to boost fundraising. So, the SPLC had to create them. We have been saying that for years. Now the Justice Department is saying it, too, and it’s about time!