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A new DVD is a hit among white supremacists looking for a smart-sounding defense of their beliefs.

Contrary to its title, A Conversation about Race isn鈥檛 really a conversation about race at all, but a slick 58-minute documentary devoted to proving the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented to oppress whites. Debut filmmaker Craig Bodeker 鈥� who appears in his documentary with a surfer-style blond 鈥檇o, collared shirt and jeans 鈥� is upfront about his project:

鈥淚 鈥� can鈥檛 think of another issue that is more artificial, manufactured and manipulated than this whole construct called racism,鈥� he says in a voice-over as the documentary begins.

Later, on camera, he continues: 鈥淭his construct of racism is not an objective term. It has no concise definition. In fact, it鈥檚 used too often as a tool of intimidation, like a hammer, against Caucasian whites.鈥�

Although we don鈥檛 believe that only whites can be racist, Bodeker鈥檚 efforts to refute the entire concept of racism are far from scientific. He interviews people he finds through a Craigslist ad (ambiguously titled 鈥淓nding Racism Now鈥�) and on a street corner in Denver, Colo., where he lives. The interviewees, who represent a variety of races and ethnicities, earnestly answer Bodeker鈥檚 questions, clearly ignorant (at least initially) of his slant. When they say they see racism in their daily lives but fail to cite strong examples, the filmmaker feels justified in sticking a knife in racism. 鈥淎ll of these examples of this so-called racism that permeates our nation 鈥� none of them really amount to anything,鈥� he says to the camera. Bodeker never says whether he believes that discrimination found by courts and government commissions also doesn鈥檛 鈥渞eally amount to anything.鈥�

As the documentary progresses, Bodeker asks his subjects whether black men are more skilled than white men at basketball. When some answer yes, but then refuse to say that whites score higher on standardized tests because they鈥檙e smarter, Bodeker has more ammunition. 鈥淚 guess it鈥檚 OK to say that one race is better at something than another, as long as the one race is never white people,鈥� he complains. He makes no effort to examine the on intelligence and race, which have yet to produce convincing evidence that IQ differences are caused by genetics.

After trying to get interviewees to admit that blacks are more criminal than whites, he cites rape statistics in which black men were perpetrators and white women were victims. 鈥淚f selecting people for discrimination based on their skin color is racism, and it鈥檚 a bad thing,鈥� he says, 鈥渨ell, isn鈥檛 selecting people for rape because of their skin color also a bad thing? In fact, isn鈥檛 it a much worse thing?鈥� What he neglects to mention is that it鈥檚 unclear how many, if any, of the black-on-white rapes were hate crimes 鈥� that is, motivated at least in part by racial bias. An offense isn鈥檛 a hate crime simply because the victim and perpetrator are of different races.

Moreover, Bodeker asserts that Latinos are deliberately taking away whites鈥� majority status. 鈥淚f we object to the stated agenda of replacing whites as the racial majority in America with Hispanics, it鈥檚 us who get called the racists,鈥� he says, 鈥渘ot the people who are openly and actively working to change the racial makeup of our country.鈥�

Bodeker鈥檚 documentary has received most of its praise from hate publications and groups, including Vdare.com, The Occidental Quarterly, the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance and the Council of Conservative Citizens鈥� Citizens Informer. (One so-called mainstream fan of the film is the controversial black scholar Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and a member of the National Council for the Humanities. In a blurb posted on the documentary's website, Swain calls the film "outstanding" and "meticulously done." "[I]t offers people of all races a rare opportunity to engage in cross-racial dialogue," she writes. "I highly recommend this film for social science courses dealing with race, class, and ethnicity.")

The South Carolina 鈥� a white supremacist group whose national conference Bodeker attended in June in Mississippi 鈥� recently hosted a big-screen showing of the movie in three locations. Since the documentary鈥檚 release last year, Bodeker has given interviews to the Romanian National Vanguard News Agency (motto: 鈥淚nternational News for People of European Descent鈥�), Mark Dankof (a radio broadcaster who also contributes to the anti-Semitic American Free Press), and an overtly anti-Semitic, racist show whose guests have included former Klan boss David Duke, neo-Nazi April Gaede and Holocaust denier Mark Weber.

During these interviews, Bodeker manages to undermine his own argument, providing plenty of evidence that racism 鈥� the belief that one race is superior to another 鈥� really does exist.

On The Political Cesspool鈥檚 Jan. 31 show, for instance, one of the hosts asserts that 鈥渆verything that is good about civilization 鈥� just about everything that is good, from literature to works of art to law is something that came from our [white people鈥檚] minds.鈥�

Bodeker鈥檚 response? 鈥淚 have to agree.鈥�