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A recent by veteran reporter Dennis Roddy at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette uncovered something odd: a major Pittsburgh foundation that has long supported prominent white nationalist and anti-immigrant haters has also given money to the welcoming committee for the September G-20 summit to be held in Pittsburgh. Supporting the summit, a gathering of finance ministers from 20 countries including Mexico, seemed an odd move for a foundation that also backs groups who claim Latinos are invading the U.S. when they come looking for work.

Roddy鈥檚 article showed how the Colcom Foundation, founded by Cordelia Scaife May, a now-deceased heir to the Mellon banking fortune, had given money to extremists such as , a white nationalist who edited a newsletter for the (CCC), a group that has advocated racial separation and believes blacks to be a 鈥渞etrograde species of humanity.鈥� The foundation started by May, who died in 2005, also donated massive amounts of money over several decades to the various anti-immigrant institutions created by John , a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who is the orchestrator of the modern nativist movement. Two Tanton-linked organizations listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups 鈥� the and the (FAIR) 鈥� are among those that received funds in the past from Colcom.

Roddy鈥檚 article exposed something else of interest: that Colcom鈥檚 vice president for philanthropy is . In the 1990s and early 2000s, Rohe was Tanton鈥檚 right-hand man at his foundation, U.S., Inc., which runs The Social Contract Press, serving for years on its board and as CEO in the mid-2000s. Rohe also wrote an over-the-top biography of Tanton and his wife, Mary Lou and John Tanton: A Journey into American Conservation, that depicts them as saints.

Seeing Rohe at Colcom perhaps should not be surprising. Tanton had long been close to May, whom he affectionately called "Cordy" in his personal correspondence. Tanton shared many of his extremist with May, sending her, for example, anti-Semitic material by in 1998, so that she would gain 鈥渁 new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life, which explains a large part of the Jewish opposition to immigration reform.鈥� They would talk strategy, with Tanton once explaining in a letter that 鈥渇or credibility鈥� he had decided to separate the Center for Immigration Studies () from FAIR in 1986 so it would appear independent.

When asked about the foundation鈥檚 donations over the years to hate groups such as FAIR, Rohe told Roddy, 鈥淟et鈥檚 agree up front that acts of racism and race-based decisions should not be tolerated. Never. Period.鈥� But Rohe鈥檚 strong denunciation of racism seems contradicted by his prominent role at U.S., Inc. The foundation鈥檚 journal, The Social Contract, regularly published racists and racist materials, and its editor, who worked for Rohe, was Wayne , who has been on the board of more than one white nationalist outfit and has been published by the Holocaust-denying . To cite just one example of The Social Contract鈥檚 racism, in 1998, while Rohe was on the board overseeing it, it ran a lead article headlined 鈥淓urophobia: The Hostility Toward European-Descended Americans鈥� that argued that multiculturalism was replacing 鈥渟uccessful Euro-American culture鈥� with 鈥渄ysfunctional Third World cultures.鈥�

Also problematic for Rohe鈥檚 anti-racism statement is that Tanton was so steeped in white nationalist ideas during the time Rohe worked for him. Using Tanton鈥檚 personal correspondence lodged at the University of Michigan, Hatewatch published a detailed of Tanton鈥檚 decades-long history of extremism. No mention was made by Rohe of any of this in his Tanton hagiography.

Rohe did not respond to e-mails for comment about his recent statement or his relationship to Tanton and other Tanton-founded and funded groups. Another Scaife-funded entity did react angrily to Roddy鈥檚 article. The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, owned by Cordelia May鈥檚 brother , published an calling Roddy鈥檚 article 鈥渁 screed鈥� and complaining that 鈥渋t shamelessly smear[ed] the name of a dead woman鈥� and was motivated by Post-Gazette editor John Robinson Block鈥檚 鈥渂lind hatred.鈥� The Tribune Review editorial defended the foundation鈥檚 donations to anti-immigrant hate groups as supporting 鈥渆fforts to bring some kind of sanity to this nation's badly broken immigration system.鈥�