Student Group at Towson University to Host White Nationalist Tomorrow
Anyone wondering what the future of organized hate might look like need cast their eyes no further than Matthew Heimbach, the outspoken and energetic former president of 鈥檚 (YWC) erstwhile chapter at Towson University in Maryland and the aspiring leader of its newly proposed but as yet unsanctioned White Student Union. Heimbach鈥檚 YWC group was last year when its faculty advisor withdrew after members chalked white pride slogans on sidewalks. Now a senior at Towson, Heimbach has threatened to take the university to court if his new organization is not approved.
鈥淔ree speech advocates in Maryland are supporting our case and agree that University policies are at best in the gray or worst outright unconstitutional,鈥 he told , the Towson student newspaper. 鈥淥ur message will not be silenced, we have the right to meet. If the University decides to overstep their legal boundaries 鈥 then they will meet definitive, quick action.鈥
And to highlight the first planned first meeting of his White Student Union, set for tomorrow, Heimbach has invited his 鈥減ersonal hero,鈥 a white nationalist writer named Jared Taylor who once wrote, 鈥淲hen blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization 鈥 any kind of civilization 鈥 disappears.鈥
Heimbach had been moving steadily to the right for some time before he reached the point of bedding down with Taylor. Heimbach made his first foray into white nationalist activism when he proposed that his hometown of Poolesville, Md., erect a memorial to its Confederate soldiers. 鈥淧reserving slavery was not the only reason for the war,鈥 he told of Gaithersburg, Md., at the time, likening the South of the period to 鈥渁 tea party conservative against big government鈥 today.
On April 4, 2011, the then-19-year-old Heimbach appeared before Poolesville鈥檚 commissioners to a counter-proposal for a monument that commemorated both Union and Confederate soldiers 鈥 a notion inspired not just by political correctness but by the historical fact that Maryland, a border state, had soldiers in both armies. Identifying himself as a member of the and a re-enactor for the 8th Virginia Infantry, Heimbach argued that Poolesville had been a hotbed of secessionism. 鈥淚f we were a southern town and our men fought for the south,鈥 he said, 鈥渁 memorial to both sides 鈥 is 鈥 almost insulting to the men who fought and gave their lives from Poolesville and the surrounding areas of Montgomery County.鈥
As at Hatewatch, Heimbach has kept himself busy since his YWC chapter went dark. As the of the Baltimore subchapter of the National Capital Area Chapter of the 鈥 a group directly descended from the White Citizens Councils that resisted desegregation during the 1950s and 1960s 鈥 he attended that organization鈥檚 national conference in Nashville, Tenn., this July. The U.S. is 鈥渁 terminal cancer patient,鈥 he told the (SNN) at the time. 鈥淭here鈥檚 nothing we can do to save her, we just need to be prepared and ready to defend ourselves and our sovereignty when the time comes.鈥
Later that same month, he appeared on an podcast again, this time from Montgomery, Ala., where he was attending a conference of the neo-Confederate . Heimbach bragged about some of the 鈥渁fter hours鈥 fun he and his fellow attendees had been having 20. They鈥檇 waved the Confederate battle flag outside the church where 鈥渢he honorable and distinguished Reverend doctor鈥 Martin Luther King had preached 鈥 a man, Heimbach sneered, 鈥渨ho had the audacity to change American while cheating on his wife, hanging around with Communists, and stealing and plagiarizing all his material.鈥 On July 20, they鈥檇 visited and 鈥渇lagged鈥 the outside of the nearby Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 headquarters as well. The 人兽性交 building, Heimbach wrote, looked 鈥渓ike an abomination created by the empire in Star Wars. You look at it and you can just feel the evil.鈥 Apparently worried by that, Heimbach came wearing what appeared to be a holstered pistol.
Heimbach insists that the White Student Union he is proposing will be in the same mold as Towson鈥檚 existing 鈥淏lack Student Union, Caribbean Student Association, Chinese Student and Scholar Association, Filipino Cultural Association, Greek Heritage Society, Hillel, Iranian Student Union, Il Circolo (The Italian Club), Korean American Student Association, Latin American Student Organization, Pakistani Student Association, Saudi Student Club, South Asian Students Association, and Vietnamese Student Association.鈥 He added that it would allow 鈥渟tudents to celebrate their unique identities and to learn about their forefathers and their ancestral homelands.鈥 WSU organizers told WBAL-TV that they would act as 鈥渁n advocacy group, a source of pride and a safe haven for white students who have been discriminated against.鈥
When an ADL characterized Heimbach and his proposed group as 鈥渨hite supremacists,鈥 Heimbach fired back in kind, encouraging readers to research 鈥渢he history of the ADL, which was founded after Southerners killed a convicted child-rapist 鈥 named Leo Frank 鈥 who happened to be Jewish.鈥 (Actually, most historians believe Frank was innocent of the charge for which he was lynched.)
As aggrieved as Heimbach pretends to be at the ADL鈥檚 criticism, the links on the website make it abundantly clear that his agenda has become militantly racist. They include Taylor鈥檚 racist journal ; the , a white supremacist political party; the ; Counter Currents Publishing, the publishing arm of the 鈥淣ew Right,鈥 whose goal is to 鈥渕ake white racial consciousness and self-assertion hegemonic鈥; the virulently anti-Islamic English Defense League; Jobbik, a neo-fascist Hungarian political part; the , a racist neo-secessionist group; Occidental Dissent, a white nationalist publication that claims we are living through the historical epoch of 鈥淏lack Run America,鈥 whose policy is 鈥淛im Crow in Reverse鈥; Ram Z. Paul, an Internet radio show that mocks 鈥渃ultural Marxism鈥; , another racist journal; a white supremacist radio show based in Tennessee; the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party, and the white separatist Voice of Reason Radio network. The WSU鈥檚 recommended readings include Francis Parker Yockey鈥檚 neo-Nazi classic Imperium, as well as Sam Francis鈥檚 Essential Writings on Race, Pat Buchanan鈥檚 Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive Until 2025? and Jared Taylor鈥檚 newest book White Identity.
The Yale-educated, founder of the New Century Foundation and publisher of American Renaissance magazine, poses as a thought leader whose contribution to American discourse is 鈥渞acial realism鈥濃攚hich upon closer examination turns out to be racism dressed up in academic clothing. Marshaling an array of pseudoscientific 鈥渆vidence,鈥 Taylor maintains that since human beings prefer to be with their own kinds, the races should live separately; that 鈥渢here is a substantial genetic contribution to well-established racial differences in average IQ鈥; and that 鈥渨hites have legitimate group interests just like everyone else.鈥
Heimbach invited Taylor to speak at the White Student Union鈥檚 first meeting, supposedly as a way to test the waters and see how much interest there is in the Towson community for such a group (though one might reasonably suspect that Heimbach and Taylor鈥檚 real purpose is to stir up as much controversy and attention for themselves as they can). Since the WSU is not formally sanctioned, Towson required it to pay for the rental of the meeting room and extra police protection. Deploring that 鈥渦nconstitutional assault on free speech and assembly,鈥 American Renaissance blogger Henry Wolff issued a call for tax-deductible donations to defray the costs. The funds were raised, the check was delivered to the university, and the event will go off on schedule, at 8:30 tomorrow evening.
鈥淚 could not think of a better way to begin the school year than by hosting a speech by [Jared Taylor],鈥 Heimbach said about his upcoming event. 鈥淭he students of Towson will finally be afforded the opportunity to learn something other than the cultural Marxism that is espoused by their professors.鈥
