Ohio: White nationalists, conspiracy theorists join Traficant’s cause
— “Conspiracy theorists, white nationalists and visitors to a Web site kept by a former ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan were calling on their readers to send money and shows of support to former congressman Jim Traficant during his prison sentence.”
— “Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke’s personal Web site and blog contains calls to send contributions to Traficant’s canteen fund.”
— “Duke, president of European American Union and Rights Organization, also posted a Traficant letter that was being circulated through several Web sites. The letter, which is attributed to Traficant and says the federal government sought revenge against him, explains that people can send help to his wife at her home address, which it lists.”
Category: Racial Supremacism
reports and articles on white and racial supremacism
Michigan: Ex-teacher: ‘KKK is alive and well’
Michigan: Ex-teacher: ‘KKK is alive and well’
— Cathy Cantu
— “‘I know the KKK is alive and well; a faction of the Klan came after me and my job through the media and through my administration,’ Cantu wrote in ‘Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers,’ released Aug. 18.”
Virginia – More Ku Klux Klan Graffiti
Virginia – More Ku Klux Graffiti:
— “Klan graffiti, thought by James City Police to be mischief, could be a sign of something serious”
Tennessee – Arson Attack on Church Previously Vandalized with “KKK”
— news reports:
— “On Sunday, August 23, the St. Elmo United Methodist church on St. Elmo Avenue in Chattanooga went up in flames.”
— “Church members suspect that hate had something to do with what the 70 federal, state, and local officials are investigating.”
— “St. Elmo resident Charles King told Chattanooga News Channel 12 that ‘KKK’ was spray painted on the church’s sign just months ago.”
August 28 – Call for End to Racial Hate and Division at Robert E. Lee Memorial
On August 28, 2009, Responsible for Equality And Liberty’s (R.E.A.L.) Jeffrey Imm spoke to visitors at the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Arlington, Virginia — calling for an end to the nostalgia over Confederate symbols of division and calling for a national healing of America’s differences over race.
In his primary statement “We Have A Responsibility,” he recalled the historic call for civil rights by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963 “I Have A Dream,” and called for America to finish the efforts made in promoting equality and liberty for people of all races, by challenging those who would promote the symbols of America’s past division that remain symbols of oppression, terror, and hate. He urged Americans to put such divisions past them, to reject the promotion of such symbols of division, and to “choose love, not hate.”
[Text of “We Have A Responsibility” — Video of “We Have A Responsibility”]
He called for the creation of a new monument representing our “universal human rights of equality and liberty” where the Robert E. Lee Memorial now stands on the hilltop of Arlington, Virginia overlooking Washington DC, and the Arlington National Cemetery, where he also stated in other remarks that “so many have made the ultimate sacrifice for our equality and liberty today.”
He recounted the continuing growth of Neo-Confederate hate groups and other racial supremacist hate groups throughout America, and the continuing racial supremacist violence and hate-mongering as a reason to make such a commitment to a monument for equality a priority for the nation’s capital. He pointed to the recent history of racial supremacist activity in Virginia, and recent terrorist attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
In other remarks, he pointed to the VDARE organization promoting Confederate symbols of division and Robert E. Lee’s birthday and other Confederate leaders, as the same organization that continues to ridicule people of different races, to rationalize “white nationalism,” and that used the Holocaust Memorial Museum terror attack as a justification to condemn those who seek to prevent hate crimes. He urged that we promote equality for all Americans, and defend America’s inherent values in our Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal, a truth that we hold self-evident.”
He concluded with a prayer for all those who hate, urging them to lift the hate from their hearts, and to choose love. He also prayed for Senator Ted Kennedy and his family. Senator Kennedy died this week and is to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery down the hill from Robert E. Lee Memorial on Saturday, August 29.
Yet even today, in this 21st century, the Robert E. Lee Memorial continues to stand as a symbol nostalgic about our past differences and divisions…
Our campaign as an organization, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), is to continue to promote equality and liberty — for Americans and for all human beings….
We Have A Responsibility
We Have A Responsibility
August 28, 2009
Robert E. Lee Memorial, Arlington, Virginia
(Video Link)
We are here today at the Robert E. Lee Memorial to remember a historic day, August 28, 1963. On that historic day, 46 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and thousands of black Americans gathered together down the hill at the Lincoln Memorial calling for the equal rights and liberty that were guaranteed to them in our founding Declaration of Independence that defines who and what we are as a nation.
While Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said on August 28, 1963 – “I Have A Dream,” on this August 28 – we must say “We Have A Responsibility”… to ensure equality, liberty, universal human rights, and a commitment of love to one another. We have a responsibility to rebuild our society with a commitment to making the human rights of equality and liberty our first priority, never our last.
We have a responsibility to allow our nation to heal from the divisions that we once had, and put an end to the unhealthy practices of those who seek to reopen old wounds that should have healed decades ago. We have a responsibility to challenge those who seek to parade about and wax nostalgic over our past differences and our hate towards one another. We must heal as one nation, undivided, and indivisible – with common bonds of human rights and human dignity. The pride we must seek is in our future together in shared equality and liberty.
We are not North and South, free states and slave states, abolitionists and slave masters, Union and Confederacy – that war has been over since August 20, 1866. We are only one nation, one people, one flag, and one United States of America. While our history of the past is important, what truly matters is the future that we will make together.
We have a responsibility to our children and to our children’s children – to offer them something new to be nostalgic about – not over our past differences – but about how we were willing to grow and mature as a people and nation, so that we could release our past differences, and promote symbols of unity, of equality, and of liberty together.
We have a responsibility to challenge those who would use symbols of division to continue to spread hate and to challenge our shared values of equality and liberty. Reverend Timothy James of the Disciples of Christ recently stated that “for African Americans the confederate flag is a system of terror, oppression, separation, and racism.” We shouldn’t need to be reminded of this. We have seen the use of the Confederate symbol of division used over and over again in our nation. We have seen the Confederate symbol of division used by the Ku Klux Klan. We have seen the Confederate symbol of division used by white supremacist organizations. Most recently, we have seen the Confederate symbol of division in the tragic terrorist attack in June on the Holocaust Memorial Museum. In Virginia and throughout our nation today, there are over 90 Neo-Confederate hate groups that use that symbol of our past divisions to spread hate and to attack our shared values of equality and liberty.
We have a responsibility to reach out for our future together. We have a responsibility to urge those who cling to our divisions of the past to heal and join us as a united and free people, with equality, liberty, and justice for all.
We have a responsibility to make such unity on equality and liberty a priority in our lives and in our children’s lives.
We have seen the need for such a renewed priority to challenge the racial hate that continues to be unashamedly promoted in public platforms in Virginia.
We have seen the need for such a renewed priority for equality to challenge the spreading of racial hate to children here in Virginia.
We have seen the need for a renewed priority of building our common bonds to challenge the growth of groups that promote the values of the Confederacy here in Virginia today.
Our children deserve better than this. Our nation must be responsible for better than this.
We need to decide – right now – that we will not let the disease of our past divisions and of racial hate to spread to another generation.
We need to decide – this day – that will once and for all bring an end to this disease and to this war among ourselves, and embrace the peace, the harmony, the justice, and the equality – that must be the legacy that we hand down to the next generation.
Forty-six years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood down the hill and spoke of his dream. Now it is time for us to make that dream our responsibility and our legacy as a nation.
To do so, we need a new commitment to symbols that will unite, rather than divide us. We need a new symbol of human rights that all those who come to our nation’s capital will see up on the hill when they stand where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood forty-six years ago today. We need a symbol that does more than remind us of our past, but points to our future together.
So we propose, on this historic day, that right here where are standing now at the Robert E. Lee Memorial – we create a new monument.
We propose that we create a new monument not to any man or to any woman – but a monument to every man and every woman. We propose that we create a new monument that doesn’t recognize just one race or ethnicity, but a monument to every race and every ethnicity. We propose the creation of a new monument not to any human being, but a monument to all human beings. We propose the creation of a new monument that truly represents the very idea of America itself – a commitment to equality, liberty, and universal human rights for all people.
We have a responsibility.
We have a responsibility to all those who need hope and inspiration.
We have a responsibility to all those who seek justice.
We have a responsibility to set an example for our children, their children, and the world.
We have a responsibility to make certain that all those who come to our nation’s capital never fail to understand the idea of America that is greater than all of our leaders and history combined.
We have a responsibility and a historic opportunity to challenge our government to create a new monument on this hill overlooking Washington DC – so that all those who visit can look up towards the sky and say – THAT is what America is really about – our universal human rights of equality and liberty.
We have a responsibility to Equality And Liberty.
Virgina – Manassas teens in Ku Klux Klan (KKK) – Nazi Vandalism at Elementary School
Virginia: “Four teens charged in ‘KKK’ vandalism”
Inside Northern Virgina reports:
— “Four teenagers have been charged with using landscaping sod to form the letters ‘KKK’ and a swastika in the parking lot of a Manassas area school.”
— “Police were called to Sinclair Elementary School at 7801 Garner Drive about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday after an administrator found the racist words and symbols in the parking lot. She notified school security who then called police, said Prince William County Public Schools spokesman Ken Blackstone.”
— “The symbols — a KKK, a swastika and the words ‘White Power’– were confined to the parking lot. The building was not vandalized, he said.”
(Note: The image called for the KKK and Nazis to “Unite.”)
— Vandals Mar School With Hate Graffiti
— KKK, Swastika Spelled Out In Sod
— video
North Carolina: Neo-Nazi gathering stirs police preparations
North Carolina: Neo-Nazi gathering stirs police preparations
— National Socialist Movement in Greensboro
German neo-Nazis attack Briton in Hamburg: police
August 28: R.E.A.L. Event Challenging Racial Supremacism – Robert E. Lee Memorial “Arlington House”
On August 28 beginning at 10 AM at the Robert E. Lee Memorial “Arlington House,” Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) will be leading a public awareness event regarding the continuing challenge of racial supremacism, and proposing a new approach to encouraging racial healing in America. This will be held on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s and other brave black Americans’ August 28 “March on Washington” . Our public awareness event at the Robert E. Lee memorial will be the first public awareness event ever held there.
Be part of this historical event! Join us there in solidarity to promote racial harmony and our universal human rights!
Purpose of Public Awareness Event:
Our public awareness event on the continuing issue of racial supremacism will challenge the growth and the nostalgia about our national divisions, including the nostalgia regarding Confederates that is frequently leveraged by the nearly 100 Neo-Confederate and many hundreds more racial supremacist groups in America. We have seen the tragic results of permitting such racial hate to go unchallenged by a message of love and support for our universal human rights.
We plan to call for a new direction in national healing that no longer is nostalgic about the divisions of our past, but instead focuses on what we have in common – our universal human rights and our shared national commitment to equality and liberty as a United States of America and as human beings.
At the Robert E. Lee Memorial, we will call for the United States to create a new memorial to an idea in Washington DC on the hill that overlooks the Lincoln Memorial, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke on August 28, 1963. We will call for a new memorial to the truth of our universal human rights of equality and liberty as individuals. We will call for the creation of this new memorial – a Universal Human Rights Memorial – to provide a symbol of unity and love to replace the history of division and hate from the past. We will call for the United States government to replace the Robert E. Lee memorial of the past with a monument to our Universal Human Rights of the present as an inspiration to the future.
See also R.E.A.L. news and postings on Racial Supremacism.
For more information, email us at realpublic@earthlink.net
Directions and Logistics:
Contact:
Jeffrey Imm, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), realpublic@earthlink.net
Event Location:
Robert E. Lee Memorial, Washington DC (also known as “Arlington House”)
National Park Service-managed area in the northeastern portion of Arlington National Cemetery
Important: Go to Visitor’s Center (first):
There is no way to drive directly to the Robert E. Lee Memorial – you need to go to the Arlington Cemetery, and walk up the hill northeast to arrive. Alternatively, you can take a short “Tourmobile” ride.
Make certain that you go to the Arlington National Cemetery Visitor’s Center, go to the “Information” Desk, and get a map of the area – tell them you are going to the Robert E. Lee Memorial and have them outline the walking path for you.
It is very important to have a map of the area. On the printed version of their map, the Robert E. Lee Memorial is item 15. On this interactive web-based version of their map, the Robert E. Lee Memorial is item 14.
You walk north of the Visitor’s Center up Roosevelt Drive then turn right at Weeks Drive and walk up the area on Sheridan Drive past the John F. Kennedy Memorial – the Robert E. Lee Memorial is up the hill directly north of it.
Pre-Event Meetup Location:
Arlington National Cemetery Visitor’s Center – 35 minutes prior to the public awareness event — I will be near the painting of the Robert E. Lee memorial on the wall in the Visitor’s Center. We will leave for the Robert E. Lee memorial 20 minutes prior to the event.
Dates and Times:
Friday, August 28 – 10 AM to 12 Noon
Note: due to Senator Kennedy’s funeral – we will not have a second day of this public awareness event on Saturday August 29.
Background on Robert E. Lee Memorial (also known as “Arlington House”)
National Park Service (NPS) Website for Robert E. Lee Memorial
Travel Logistics:
Arlington National Cemetery Address:
The address for Arlington National Cemetery is:
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia 22211
Subway:
The Memorial is accessible by the Blue Line of the Metro subway system. The Arlington Cemetery subway station is near the Visitor Center for the cemetery. WMATA subway system provides an on-line trip planner.
Car:
Arlington House is inside Arlington National Cemetery. From Washington DC you can drive to the cemetery by crossing the Memorial Bridge. In Virginia access to the cemetery is from the George Washington Memorial Parkway.
Additional driving directions can be found in the Carpooling/ Vanpooling section.
Plane:
The closest airport is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, just 3 miles to the south and accessible on the Blue line of the Metro subway system. Dulles International Airport is approximately 25 miles west. Baltimore Washington International Airport is located north of Washington, about 36 miles from the site.
Public Transportation
The Memorial is also accessible by the Blue Line of the Metro subway system. The Arlington Cemetery subway station is near the Visitor Center for the cemetery.
Getting Around
Arlington House can be reached by a 10-minute walk from the cemetery Visitor Center/parking area. You can also get to the memorial on Tourmobile. For a small fee you can ride a shuttle bus and hear a narrated tour of Arlington Cemetery. The shuttle bus stops at the President Kennedy gravesite, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington House and then returns to the visitor center. You can get off and reboard the shuttle at any of the stops.
Rally Limitations – Important:
As the Robert E. Lee Memorial is on the boundary of the Arlington National Cemetery, there will be no use of amplified sound. Any signs brought into the area must be covered until you are at the actual Robert E. Lee Memorial itself.
We are only permitted 15 minutes to speak at the portico area (“between the cedar tree and the NE corner of the portico”), then we will be permitted the remainder of our public awareness event to speak during “between the conservatory and the south bench.” See images of both below.
A New Beginning America Needs
It is time to end the towering of the Robert E. Lee Memorial on the hill looking down upon the Lincoln Memorial and all other symbols of freedom in America’s capital city. It is time for a new beginning of a new monument to our Universal Human Rights of Equality And Liberty – which will be a symbol to generations as to who and what America really is.
