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The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration

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Black Political Scientist Carol Swain has produced a very important work which not only examines the growth of the new white nationalist movement in America, but also its sources. Swain notes that in the last ten years or so, a new, non-violent type of white nationalism has been growing in America, one that seeks to win people over through logic and argumentation. These groups vary from moderate to radical, but underlying them all is the same message: America is being undermined by minorities and immigrants. Perhaps the most important of these groups is "American Renaissance" led by Jared Taylor. Taylor is highly educated as are most his followers. They are against multiculturalism and seek to change the demographic balance in the country.

But Swain's examination of the various groups and their messages is only the begining. She then examines the three main issues that are fueling the rise of these groups appeal to mainstream white Americans: Immigration, Crime, and Affirmative-Action. Swain argues that current immigration policy is not sensitive to local needs and a discussion on reform is needed. Unfortunately, no such discussion exists at this moment. Similiarly, high black crime rates are a taboo subject which no mainstream politician will discuss, leaving the issue to be framed by the white nationalists who argue that blacks are criminal by nature. Again, the lack of an open discussion is the greatest problem in confronting this issue. Swain offers no solution on how to lower black crime, however. But the fact that she acknowledges black crime rates are indeed higher is a brave break from the past. The third major issue feeding the movement is affirmative action, seen by many whites as discrimination. More than any other issue, it contributes to the appeal of white nationalism. Swain makes a strong case for the elimination of race-based policies, in favor of class-based policies instead. Swain also delivers a scathing indictment of the black leadership, which she believes does not serve its communities interests. Since Swain herself is black, perhaps her words will have some resonance within the black community to reasses their leaders.

In sum, it seems that censorship is our greatest enemy. When we cannot talk about issues honestly and openly, those with radical agendas will take over since there is no other side to balance it out. At first glance, one might think of this book as a typical liberal attack on the radical right, simply denouncing them without offering solutions. Swain does no such thing. She is a conservative, one who understands that difference between the mainstream and radical right, and who offers us solutions on how to improve race relations for the future. Our efforts can no longer focus on minorities, but on all Americans, if we are to reach our ideal of a color-blind society.

If you are looking for a truthfully unbiased book about the growing nationalism in our country, this is not the book for you. From the opening page the author tries to label the movement and its growth as the rehashed baby boy of the socially unacceptable white supremacy movements of America's recent past. Even though she does admit to the reasons that more and more Americans of European descent are being driven to an ethno- cultural nationalistic way of thinking, she still paints the underlying motivation as pursuit of white supremacy and white dominance mixed with our inherent insecurities and need for control. She informs us that the beliefs all stem from white supremacist plots to trick and coerce common Americans to their way of thinking. Isn't it funny how all sorts of people across the nation are getting similar ideas when they have never even touched base with each other? Quite possibly could it be that some people have grudgingly begun to accept the facts for what they are? The author makes an attempt to win credibility by conceding certain points about racial differences in crime rates, hate crimes, etc, but still refuses to shoulder the responsibilty for her people's actions and lacking social behavior, and she shows a marked inability to understand why other people and other races would care to distance themselves from these things.This book falls back on the old philosophy "if we can label it as racist, then maybe we can curtail it before it even gets started". All I can say is that I am very disappointed in this book. From the reviews I read I expected a completely unbiased book slammed full of interesting facts and truths that we are all so in need of seeing in print. Am I a racist if I wish for my children to grow up in a safe environment? Am I racist if I wish my children to live in the best possible world, free from prejudice and hate? Am I racist if I want my children to grow up with a strong sense of pride in themselves and their people and history? Am I racist if I wish my children to have morals and values and a strong sense of culture and heritage in a place that is their home where they are treated fairly like all citizens? If that is what a racist is, then I must surely be one and I am sure the author would agree. Plain and simple, if you want a book full of the old "anti-racist" double standard racism, unique perspective, liberal finger pointing, labelling failure to accept the truth for what it is and mask it with the taboo labels of our past, then this book is great for you, but as for me, I could have gotten the same information from a few weeks of watching my television set.......

A good study on White Racialism in the United States and the affects of a "multi-racial" society on whites.
All too often non-whites flaunt their racial pride, and they have organizations to turn to. But where do whites turn? All too often the only place they can turn to are radical organizations, because the only non-racist organization for whites out there that i know of is the EAIF.org (European/American issues Forum). If anything we need more non-racist websites for whites that don't accuse whites of bigotry the second they enter the site. Not the best book in the world, but worth a glance.

The author is a tax-supported "scholarship student" (by her admission), who dutifully says what such people are paid to say. She actually advocates censorship of the Internet, (when it doesn't conform to her views or the views of the think-tanks with which she's affiliated), something that made me so angry I contacted her. The book, quite frankly, made me sorry for my family's positive sense of "civil rights." To have given this woman "a voice," only to have her use it to condemn and silence populations unlike herself, and to censor the Internet. That was so amazing. And with such little sensitivity to how many poor whites, in the country so many more generations, are locked out of things like college, just so she can go on the tax dollar.

As an Englishman (a Geordie to be precise) and admirer of America, this book is a welcome discussion of the problem of race in the States, a problem which runs far deeper than in Britain. The simple fact is that the epithet "racist" has become a profoundly effective weapon in propagating the slave morality which Nietzsche so despised. No one suggests that America is "white" because that particular demographic happened to be the most powerful, therefore the most deserving - a self-evident trait. No, instead the missionaries of the underclasses rant and rave about the "fact" that whites "cheated" to become dominant - as if they were possessed of some demonic power. The fact is, I abhor people who have disgust for other races than their own, but i abhor equally the acceptable face of anti-Nordicism. The fact is that whites dominated the earth because of simultaneous developments in their culture around the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - notably the evolution of capitalism. Whomever suggests that whites overcame undeservedly is clearly jealous of this master morality (cf. the Greeks, the Romans, the French and British Empires, etc) which was also a feature of non-white peoples like the Arabs and the Chinese; and yet they have no reason to be - historical dialecticism is not the goal of humanity, contrary to the assertions of the Hegelian-Marxists.

Well, the new census just came out and yet again tells us that Europe is dying, soon death rates will exceed the birth rates in places where they haven't already begun this trend.
Italian women have an average of one baby and Germany's maternity wards sit empty more often than not. Native Irish are projected to be a minority in their own country no later than 2050. Racial strife and violence has already rocked England, due to out of control multiculturalism.
This disturbing trend has appeared here in America as well, with Whites consistently being outbred by foreigners, not to mention the lax border control policies our government has (or has not) implemented.
The funny thing is that a lot of Whites seem completely unconcerned about the future of their children and grandchildren.
Europe is undoubtedly a White person's birthright, and should be for Whites only, just as Asia and Africa is for Asians and blacks. Here in America, where this demographic suicide is also occuring, we will become a third world country within the next 50 years. Balkanization will happen and racial violence (South Africa for example) will be much more common.
Executions of Whites and interracial rapes will become more common as we plunge into minority status- they say 50% of the population by 2050, and what next? How low can we go?
Would Whites be alarmed when the census comes out with a 5% projection? Where does the annihilation of our people end?

The author of this book would no doubt be shocked by the disappearance of a beautiful butterfly, sea lions or the St. Bernard dog but could not care in the least to see White children continue to exist and thrive in a safe first world country.

-A female White Nationalist

Carol Swain's book is a wonderfully thorough and in depth look at current race relations in America. Although some of the content is disturbing, she argues that we should not be silent on the issue of race, but rather discuss what is often uncomfortable. The most persuasive part of the book is her section on policy suggestions as she brings unique and new ideas to light. Even if you think that these issues do not effect you, it is a must read as silence and lack of information fuels the white nationalists' discourse and overall pursuasiveness.

The New White Nationalism In America: It's Challenge To Integration by Carol M. Swain (Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University) is a clarion call of warning, regarding the building solidarity of a non-violent, "white nationalist" movement in contemporary America. Rather than rely on force and terrorism, this movement seeks to advance its agenda through persuasion of its target white audience, embraces separation, undercuts the civil rights era vision of an integrated America of true equality -- that what is separate cannot be evil. A timely and seminal work with an ominous warning message, The New White Nationalism In America is very strongly recommended for Political Science and Social Issues reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

DNA is destiny, my multicultural friends, and there is no denying it. The Liliputians may finally succeed in destroying America and remaking it in the image of the Third World... and it will be a crying shame if they do.

"America" may not have been perfect, but it was pretty darned good. What a shame it will be to ruin it out of a stupid desire to ignore an obvious point of objective reality--that races are races for a reason: they *are* different.

As an account of what is out there and how it is working among the world of white racists, Swain's work is almost encyclopedic. I found that it was frequently quite interestingly focused on the way in which white nationalists have appropriated the style of thinking common to postmodernism. An appeal to pity for suffering white kids, an appeal for special consideration under the law to remedy the suffering of Christian normals at the hands of a liberal elite.
What could be more chilling than that?