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Racist Leader Billy Roper Shutters White Revolution, Joins Klan

, one of the country鈥檚 leading professional racists, says he鈥檚 closing the doors of his 9-year-old organization, which he concedes has been a failure, and will join forces with long time .

鈥淎s the leader of the organization, I am solely responsible and accept full responsibility for White Revolution鈥檚 lack of success as a membership organization,鈥 Roper writes in 鈥渁n open letter to the white nationalist movement.鈥

Effective immediately, Roper says, 鈥淲hite Revolution will cease to accept new membership applications and will suspend all recruitment activities as a membership organization while we undergo a period of reorganization and dismantlement 鈥︹

His organization may be disbanding, but he鈥檚 still a racist, Roper says. 鈥淭his is not really an occasion for sadness, because I am not retiring from the movement. I am just putting aside my pride and my ego and doing what is best for my family, my race and our cause.鈥

There may be a gas-mileage component to Roper鈥檚 decision. He lives in Russellville, Ark., and Robb鈥檚 operation is in Harrison, Ark., just 66 miles down the road.

Roper earned his racist stripes in at the feet of the late , founder and long-time leader of the neo-Nazi , ultimately serving as a deputy membership director. But not long after Pierce died on July 23, 2002, Roper began to openly champion working with other racist groups 鈥 an anathema to the ideology of Pierce, who saw the Alliance as the only group capable of leading an "Aryan" revolution and famously called the members of other hate groups "freaks and weaklings." Roper's attitude ended in a major split, with Roper quitting the Alliance amid much acriomony later in 2002 and leaving the organization鈥檚 headquarters in West Virginia to return to his native Arkansas, where he started White Revolution.

With the collapse of White Revolution, Roper already is getting a new round of barbs from some of his former colleagues and fellow racist activists, particularly for his newly stated commitment to , a racist religion that argues that Jews are the offspring of Satan and Eve.

On Vanguard News Network (VNN), one poster said: 鈥淭his proves that Roper is what Dr. Pierce would call a 鈥榟obbyist.鈥 [Roper] was a member of the National Alliance which at the time expressly stated that belief in a super spook in the sky was anathema to its ideology. Yet now [Roper] is joining the hooded klan klowns and spewing nonsense about God. Good luck saving the race at those Klan BBQs and prayer meetings. Dope.鈥

Another VNN post said Roper鈥檚 鈥済roup was so small and insignificant, he couldn鈥檛 even find a successor.鈥

VNN administrator questioned when Roper took up a belief in Christian Identity. 鈥淗e surely wasn鈥檛 one at NA [National Alliance], was he?鈥

As usual, Roper doesn鈥檛 appear to buckle under the stinging criticism. He says he is proud of his 20-year racist career, having stood alongside Aryan stalwarts including Pierce, Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler, Tom Metzger, the founder of White Aryan Resistance (WAR) and Matt Hale, the imprisoned founder of the World Church of the Creator.

鈥淚 have, admittedly, risen to the top tier of the white nationalist movement,鈥欌 Roper boasts in his letter. 鈥淚鈥檓 infamous. If you don鈥檛 believe it, just Google me!鈥

But then Roper goes on to say he just doesn鈥檛 have what it takes to continue being a good racist leader.

鈥淭housands of white men and women have passed through White Revolution, but I feel that I lack the stamina, strength or wherewithal to effectively continue to provide the kind of leadership which would inspire a resurgence of followers in this organization,鈥欌 he writes.

Roper cited health issues and his 鈥渇inancial situation,鈥 but didn鈥檛 elaborate.

鈥淚 have enemies in the movement,鈥欌 Roper writes, conceding some will 鈥渟neer and jeer at this decision, and say that it is a mark of my failures as a leader, or my weakness, or is the result of past failure of judgment 鈥︹

Roper says there may be too many racist organizations, competing with each other and trying constantly to 鈥渞einvent the wheel鈥 and subdivide the movement's 鈥渟carce human and capital resources.鈥

The time has come to find 鈥渁 better model鈥 of a racist organization, Roper said, pointing to Robb鈥檚 Knights Party, also known as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, as just that example.

鈥淭hey are saying what America needs to hear, in a way that more white Americans are willing to hear it,鈥 Roper writes. 鈥淭hat is why, as a Christian Identist, I will be applying for association in the Knights Party led by Pastor Thomas Robb.鈥

Roper encouraged his White Revolution followers, who also share the Christian Identity beliefs that he now apparently adopts, to also join Robb鈥檚 organization.

Robb鈥檚 racial roots are with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that rose to some prominence through the work of effervescent David Duke.

Robb was a long-time confidant of Richard Butler鈥檚 and frequently spoke at the Aryan Nations 鈥渨orld congress鈥 in North Idaho 鈥 an annual gathering of hate mongers from various organizations.

Robb, the national director of what he calls The Knights Party, is a gifted speaker -- a charismatic racist with a softer and gentler tone, who, like Duke, has attempted to branch out into the political world with limited success.

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