‘Whites are People Too’: Why Some White People are Stating the Obvious
Carol M. Swain

(Precommentary by Administrative Staff: Carol Swain is the author of numerous books, including The New White Nationalism in America: It’s Challenges to Integration and Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America. While there are both positive and critical comments to her books by readers posting to Amazon, which I recommend for your perusal, what is most striking is Swain’s attempt at presenting White Nationalism with a sense of balance very rarely seen by writers outside the movement. For example, she includes in the later book a 17 page interview with David Duke conducted by Russell K. Nieli on February 15, 2000. Amazingly, the chapter reads without the high sensationalism and spin endemic in the media; and with an academic curiosity one might find in other texts of case studies. She began that chapter, “David Duke is perhaps the only person interviewed in this volume who needs no introductions. For an American audience, at least, he has what political scientists call ‘high name recognition,’ which is attributable largely to his controversial incursion into electoral politics.” The interviewer allows Duke much latitude in explaining his positions and intentions, and often asks clarifying questions, without the argumentation or hostility unleashed upon Duke by mainstream media and pundits. It is clear both Swain and Nieli made a concentrated effort to present facts, albeit with their own biases, with rare respect to readers in making up their own minds. She states near the end of the present article, “If we are to make progress, we need a no-holds-barred racial dialogue during which minorities must listen as much as they speak out.” We at DavidDuke.com agree, supporting that everyone needs this dialogue, and appreciate Ms. Swain’s call for it. –Admin)

Posted at Huffington Post on August 20, 2009

“Whites are people too” is the title of a YouTube video making the rounds on the Internet. A lot of stuff is happening in the world of race relations and little of it points towards a post-racial society. Fox commentator Glenn Beck has been targeted by groups demanding his removal for having had the gall to call President Obama a racist who hates white people. Beck is steadily losing advertisers, but his viewers seem to be sticking with him. Undoubtedly, there are white Americans who agree with Beck and will cite as evidence Obama’s long-term membership in Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s ethnocentric Church, his Administration dropping charges against members of the New Black Panther Party suspected of intimidating white Philadelphia voters, and his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

White desperation is manifesting itself in various forms. Last week I received an e-mail from a Jewish woman whom I shall call Hadassah who described herself as being frustrated by racial preferences and racial double standards. After reading my book, The New White Nationalism in America, and my blog criticizing the Southern Poverty Law Center, Hadassah wrote to inquire whether I would be willing to serve as an interpreter between the races. She thought the book gave a fair treatment of white nationalism and felt that perhaps I might be the one person who could help improve the situation. This blog represents my first attempt at being a cross-racial interpreter.

I found in Hadassah’s request both sincerity and quiet desperation. Hers is one of many such e-mails I have received over the years from whites who confess to having been raised in liberal democratic- homes, but who are now flirting with white nationalism. These whites express frustration with immigration, black crime rates, racial preferences, and demographic changes reducing the percentage of non-Hispanic whites in the population. They see themselves as the “real” victims of racial discrimination, who have no recourse left other than to organize themselves for self-preservation. Many people believe that these concerns and attitudes belong to a radical fringe. I disagree.

Hadassah wrote:

I myself never harbored any racialist or racist attitudes until the advent of the playing of the race card, affirmative action, reverse racism against White people, and the myriad attempts by liberals in government to make life unbearable for those of the White Race, such as forced integration, forced busing, and the ruination of White neighborhoods. I have met many Asian people who share these exact concerns as well.Because of the many efforts by professional race mongers such as the SPLC, the NAACP, and the like, hatred against your people has heightened to a level I have never before seen in my half-century of life on this earth. It terrifies me, and I wonder if perhaps fair-minded persons like yourself could help ameliorate this in some way? It seems you have indeed been trying; I try to do the same within the Jewish community, to make Jewish liberals understand that many of their actions only harm the Jewish people in the eyes of the Gentile community.

Read the rest of the article at Huffington Post.