The Ideology of Hate

August 26, 2007

With the discovery of a Native Supremacy movement in Ontario, it’s important to understand what drives people to commit monstrous acts such as the terrorizing and murder of others based purely on their race. For those of us who don’t posses this hatred, it will never be possible to fully grasp it but it’s worth trying to because one thing every hate group in history has had in common is the unwillingness to attempt to understand those they hate and oppress.

Let’s start with a look at some of the various Supremacy groups that have existed over the years starting with the first on record.

The Ku Klux Klan:

Founded in 1865 by six educated middle class Confederate war veterans under the premise of boredom with the post war routine, the original Ku Klux Klan spread from Tennessee to nearly every other southern State launching a reign of terror on Republican leaders and constitutional speakers in their early days which saw the murders of an Arkansas Congressman, 3 members of the South Carolina Legislature, and at least 3 men who had served in constitutional conventions.

The group claimed to be advocates for “the reenfranchisement and emancipation of the white men of the South”. In the process of trying to control the freedoms and rights of freed slaves and anyone who supported beliefs other than their own, they frequently launched “Klan Raids” which consisted of large groups of masked men arriving at the home of someone who supported those they sought to oppress in the middle of the night and terrorizing them into following orders.

They publicly stated that the Klan was a peaceful organization. Such claims were common ways for them to attempt to protect themselves from prosecution. They murdered hundreds of black people and called it self defence by stating the Klan had been “fired into three times,” and that if the blacks “make war upon us they must abide by the awful retribution that will follow.”

In 1869 the Klan was ruled a “terrorist organization” by a federal grand jury at which point leaders ordered the disbanding of the group, and many fled to avoid prosecution. The group carried on however under a nervous government that was hesitent to act against them until 1871 when the “Ku Klux Klan act” was passed by US president Grant.

In 1915, the release of a propaganda film called “The Birth of a Nation” brought the Klan back to life in an even more vicious form. Telling the public its purpose was “To protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs and outrages of the lawless, the violent and the brutal; to relieve the injured and oppressed; to succor the suffering and unfortunate, and especially the widows and orphans of the Confederate soldiers.” They spread their hatred of jews, blacks, immigrants, communists, and catholics across the USA and into Canada even going so far at to murder Black soldiers returning from while they were still in their military uniforms.The Klan warned Blacks that they must respect the rights of the white race “in whose country they are permitted to reside.”

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