WHITE SEPARATISM

'White separatism' is a separatist political movement that seeks a homeland for white people. Critics claim that contemporary white separatism is a public facade adopted by white supremacists^[1]
White separatists oppose claims that it is a supremacist ideology, which is predicated on a single, supreme, sovereignty requiring subjugation of parts of the society to the will of other parts. Separatists frequently claim democracy is supremacist since it requires minorities to ultimately submit to the tyranny of the majority. According to most standard dictionaries, racial segregation and apartheid speak of a society ''within'' which racial discrimination takes place, whereas separatism implies separate societies between which assortative migration takes place. Assortative migration under separatism implies as many criteria for admittance as there are sovereignties and only some minor portion of those sovereignties might have racial criteria and only some of those sovereignties would have a requirement that the residents be of the white race.
White separatists generally claim genetic affiliation with Anglo-Saxon cultures, Nordic cultures, or other European cultures. White separatists are often found among Christian Identity groups, some of whom refer to the United States as a "Zionist Occupation Government". As a result, many proposals have been submitted to create separate white homelands in various locals such as the northwestern corner of the United States.^[2]

Contents

Origins

Contemporary white separatism

Protect Arizona Now

Americans for Self Determination

National Alliance

Criticism and counterpoint

Notable white separatists

See also

References

Origins

As European people colonized parts of Africa and North America, some white people desired to create new settlements of whites that could exist as nations similar to the nations of Europe. Thomas Jefferson wrote:

''"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them."''^[3]

At the dawn of the civil rights era, Abraham Lincoln, addressing the African American community, wrote:

''For the sake of your race you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people. ... The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time. In a certain sense it is a success. ... They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have been sent thither from this country. Many of the original settlers have died; yet, like people else-where, their offspring outnumber those deceased. The question is, if the colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there?'' ^[4]

Contemporary white separatism

While early white separatists were anticipating the abolition of slavery, contemporary white separatism is a reaction to the abolition of slavery. This reaction has grown more extremist with the advent of the American Civil Rights Movement and its prohibitions against racial discrimination, not only in government's relation to its citizens, but in immigration policy and in private associations. Due to the powerful position of the United States during this era, this has been international. In formerly colonized regions of Africa, similar developments have occurred even outside of the Apartheid era. Regardless, the result has been de facto segregation, particularly in areas such as Orania, South Africa. It is difficult to distinguish passive white separatism from white supremacy since separate white sovereignties no longer exist.
This represents a profound change from the 1800s during which racial separatism, as exemplified by Jefferson and Lincoln, was normative. While at present there are several self-proclaimed white separatist groups, it critics claim they are actually white supremacists. There have been repeated overtures toward mutual recognition between black separatists and white separatists in various parts of the world.

Protect Arizona Now

During the campaign for the Arizona Proposition 200 (2004), Dr. Virginia Abernethy, of the group Protect Arizona Now, responded to a journalist's questions about her allegedly white supremacist views by stating that she considers herself a separatist, not a supremacist: "I'm in favor of separatism — and that's different than supremacy. Groups tend to self-segregate. I know that I'm not a supremacist. I know that ethnic groups are more comfortable with their own kind."^[5]
Dr. Abernethy has written elsewhere that European-Americans have made the greatest contributions to society, so they must strive to maintain adequate fertility to continue the race.^[6] Abernethy is a leader in white pride groups such as the Council of Conservative Citizens.

Americans for Self Determination

The Americans for Self Determination (ASD) proposes that some territories of the United States be set aside as racialist states, to avert a race war. These racialist states are to include separate areas for blacks, whites, Hispanics, Amerindians and perhaps other racial groups. The establishment of black states would be via the payment of taxes by whites to black leaders of those states, to buy out white property owners. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the ASD as a hate group.

National Alliance

The National Alliance proclaims itself to be a white separatist group. Upon its founding, it was closely associated with Francis Parker Yockey and his book ''. Opponents have accused the group of supporting white supremacy and Neo-Nazism, but the organization has denied these claims. The National Alliance has stated that such allegations are part of a "Jewish plot" to suppress the "racial defense mechanisms" of white people by accusing white separatists of being white supremacists.^[7]
The National Alliance's former leader, William Luther Pierce, was one of the most recognized names in the white separatist movement. Pierce wrote the 1978 novel ''The Turner Diaries'' which depicts a race war in which a white supremacist resistance movement uses an economic and cultural crisis as a pretext to take control of the United States, and eventually the world. In the book, the white supremacists brutally kill all non-whites, Jews and "race traitors". Pierce hosted a weekly radio program, ''American Dissident Voices'', which started airing in 1992. In 1997, Pierce wrote:

''Ultimately we must separate ourselves from the Blacks and other non-whites and keep ourselves separate, no matter what it takes to accomplish this. We must do this not because we hate Blacks, but because we cannot survive if we remain mixed with them. And we cannot survive if we permit the Jews and the traitors among us to remain among us and to repeat their treachery. Eventually we must hunt them down and get rid of them.''^[8]

Criticism and counterpoint

Sociologists Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie Shanks-Meile aregue that terms such as white separatism and white nationalism are euphemisms that have been adopted by neo-Nazi and racist groups to make their views seem less extreme. The Center for Democratic Renewal called the term white separatist a "media gloss." The anti-racist group Turn it Down, which campaigns against White Power music, has issued similar sentiments.
Supporters of white separatism claim that describing white separatists as white supremacist is a media smear.^[9] They claim that their desire to remove themselves from racially integrated society and to segregate based on race removes the possibility of subjugating other ethnicities, and thus has no relation to white supremacy. They often say they have no desire to intermingle with other races at all, neither to harm them nor to force them into slavery or other oppressive conditions. Kevin Alfred Strom, on the National Alliance's white separatist radio program ''American Dissident Voices'', defined the difference between white separatism and supremacy this way:

''A separatist may believe that his race is superior to other races in some or all characteristics, but this is not his essential belief. The separatist is defined by his wish for freedom and independence for his people. He wishes them to have their own society, to be led by their own kind, to have a government which looks out for their interests alone. The separatist does not wish to live in a multiracial society at all, so he naturally has no desire to rule over other races...''^[7]

Notable white separatists

★ Virginia Abernethy

★ Don Black

★ Thomas W. Chittum

★ David Duke

★ Norman Lowell

★ William Luther Pierce

★ Kevin Alfred Strom

★ Jared Taylor

★ Randy Weaver

See also

★ Black separatism

★ Council of Conservative Citizens

★ Libertarian National Socialist Green Party

★ National-Anarchism

★ Neo-Nazi groups of the United States

★ Neo-Nazism

★ New Orleans Protocol

★ Stormfront (website)

★ Racism

★ White nationalism and Black nationalism

★ White Power and Black Power

★ White pride and Black pride

★ White supremacy and Black supremacy

★ Xenophobia

References

1. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3719/is_200607/ai_n16855771/pg_9
2. http://www.freestateproject.org/news/media_archive/0027.php][http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3719/is_200607/ai_n16855772/pg_4
3. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
4. http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/american-authors/19th-century/abraham-lincoln/the-writings-of-abraham-lincoln-06/ebook-page-36.asp
5. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/?sty=26431
6. http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/March2004/0304Abernethy.html
7. http://www.natvan.com/pub/012404.txt
8. http://www.constitution.org/y2k/megiddo.txt
9. http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/anti-hate/definitions.html
10. http://www.natvan.com/pub/012404.txt