Month: April 2010

News media reports on murder of white supremacist Richard Barrett and arrest of Vincent McGee, on probation, who did yard work for Barrett.

Earlier in April 2010, Richard Barrett was promoted by a forum member of the “white nationalist hate group” Stormfront, where the Stormfront forum member praised Richard Barrett’s “victories.”   Richard Barrett promoted his own “nationalist” newspaper on his website Nationalist.org, with a “crosstar” logo. (See more on the Stormfront response here.)

— Clarion Ledger: Man arrested in Richard Barrett homicide
— Clarion Ledger reports: “state inmate on supervised release is facing a murder charge in the slaying of white supremacist Richard Barrett, 67, whose burned and stabbed body was discovered in his Pearl-area home.”
— “Vincent McGee, 23, who lives with his parents on the same street as Barrett, was arrested around 5 p.m. Thursday at his sister’s home in Pearl, Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said.”
— “While McGee is African American, authorities have not said Barrett’s racial beliefs were a motive in his slaying.”
— “McGee had performed yard work for Barrett, Pennington said.”
— “McGee had served five years of a six-year sentence for simple assault on a police officer and grand larceny when he was released on probation in February from the State Penitentiary at Parchman.”
— “A photo on his Facebook page shows off numerous tattoos associated with the Vice Lords street gang.”

WLBT: “Who was Richard Barrett?”
— WLBT reports: “He was a New York City native and Vietnam War veteran who moved to Mississippi in 1966. A lawyer and author, Barrett soon began traveling around the country promoting racist ideology through a white supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement.”
— “Barrett ran for governor in 1979 and for U.S. Congress in 1984, a loser in both races. He advocated the resettlement of Jews and Mexicans contending that non-whites, especially blacks, were inferior. ”
— “Barrett also launched a movement to support Byron de la Beckwith who was convicted in 1994 for the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Barrett’s demand that then Governor Kirk Fordice pardon Beckwith, fell on deaf ears.”
— “In 2004, he spearheaded a failed effort to place a booth at the Mississippi State Fair to feature reputed Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. Killen was eventually convicted of manslaughter in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi.”
— “In 2008, Barrett claimed his Nationalist Movement had members in 36 states, but he wouldn’t say how many members there were.”
— “The white supremacist once described himself as “a man whose name will be written in lightning across the pages of American history.”  Now, Richard Barrett’s name is written in headlines as a murder victim.”

WJTV: “White Supremacist Richard Barrett Murdered”

SPLC: White Supremacist Richard Barrett Murdered in Mississippi Home
— local, state, and federal authorities are investigating the crime

WLBT Video Link

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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemn the murder of Richard Barrett, and hope that the guilty individual is brought to justice.

We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Nazi, white supremacist, racial supremacist, and those who promote violence and hate to release the burden of the hate and violence from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights. We condemn all those who seek violence and murder is the path to advancing any cause.

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