American Renaissance Speakers Call for White Homeland
Over 150 white nationalists gathered yesterday at Montgomery Bell State Park outside Nashville, Tenn., for the conference. This year鈥檚 event featured new speakers and a noticeably younger audience, with half the crowd raising their hands after , emcee of the event, opened it by asking, 鈥淗ow many of you are first time attendees?鈥
One first time speaker was 鈥淩amZPaul,鈥 real name Paul Ray Ramsey, whose series of YouTube videos have racked up some 4.3 million views in the last four years (only former Klansman seems to have outpaced him among web-savvy racists, with more than 6.7 million YouTube views in the same time period). Posting what he calls 鈥渕ostly satire that pokes fun at the establishment,鈥 the 49-year-old Tulsa suburbanite鈥檚 sarcastic videos have become a weekly staple on major racist websites including Vanguard News Network and .
Ramsey is becoming a hero to many on the radical right. 鈥淩amzpaul is brilliant. A huge asset,鈥 gushed anti-Semitic Cal State Long Beach professor last January. Ramsey鈥檚 videos often appear on MacDonald鈥檚 racist site Occidental Observer. Last April, one of Ramsey鈥檚 videos opened with a shout out from , author of the racist novel White Apocalypse, which graphically depicts the murder of a fictional character based on a Southern Poverty Law Center employee.
At American Renaissance, Ramsey鈥檚 topic was 鈥淪ex and Nationalism,鈥 and basically consisted of an attack on feminism mixed in with rather crude racist jokes. Ramsey said, 鈥淔eminism is a disease. What is the cause? It is the delusion that the sexes are equal. It is the mother of all delusions.鈥 Apparently, Ramsey is very concerned that women鈥檚 focus on their careers, which often delays when they have children, is making our society matriarchal. The result, says Ramsey, is submissive men that white women don鈥檛 care to marry. Ramsey asserts, 鈥淲e need more growth in white children鈥 and white 鈥渟ecession.鈥 If not, 鈥淢en鈥檚 rights will end. Christians will end. White conservatives will end.鈥
He seems less concerned about black women鈥檚 fertility. Ramsey said sarcastically that forty percent of all abortions are performed on black women. 鈥淚n my neighborhood, it鈥檚 called Crime Stoppers.鈥 He concluded his anti-feminist rant with a 鈥渏oke.鈥 鈥淗ow can you tell if a white supremacist agrees with you? They say K-K-K.鈥
After his speech, Ramsey took a question from , a member of the racist who has been in the news much of late for forming a white student union at Towson University in Maryland. Heimbach liked Ramsey鈥檚 speech, but wanted to know how to move forward in creating a white鈥檚 only homeland. 鈥淲here do we create our ethno state?鈥 Heimbach asked. Ramsey鈥檚 answer: 鈥淲e need to Balkanize and create our own homeland. We have a right to exist.鈥 He suggested the Southwest for Latinos and the Southeast for African Americans.
Jared Taylor, head of American Renaissance, also took up the white homeland message. He opened his speech saying, 鈥淲e want a homeland where we are a majority. We almost had one in the United States of America.鈥 Taylor worries that by 2060, whites will only make up thirty percent of the population and Latinos will be the majority (The U.S. Census Bureau predicts whites will become a minority in the 2040s and no ethnic or racial group will be the majority). 鈥淥ur government is permitting a neighboring country [meaning Mexico] to invade our country. We have a government of traitors,鈥 Taylor raged. He lamented, 鈥淲hite people who express a desire for a homeland are labeled as haters.鈥
Much of Taylor鈥檚 talk was made up of relatively random racist or sexist rants. He asked, 鈥淲hy would anyone believe the races are equal? And, 鈥淗ow can anyone think women should be in combat? Males and females are different.鈥 Even if this weren鈥檛 true, Taylor complained, 鈥渢he idea of sending the childbearing sex into combat is stupefying.鈥 For Taylor, the end of white power began with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools. But now, he says, the 鈥渋nsanity has gone well beyond race.鈥 Sounding more ominous than usual, Taylor concluded, 鈥淲e want a homeland鈥hink of secession鈥hink of hometowns. We have to build them ourselves鈥urvival is the first law. We have no choice but to keep fighting.鈥
Heimbach asked Taylor the same question he asked Ramsey: 鈥淭he federal government will continue its genocide of our people. Where should we go? What is the best way to create a homeland?鈥 鈥淚t will work itself out organically in ways we can鈥檛 predict,鈥 Taylor responded. 鈥淲hite anger may erupt in places we鈥檝e not heard of鈥ventually we will wake up.鈥
Richard Spencer of the white nationalist National Policy Institute also plugged for a white homeland. Spencer argued for 鈥減eaceful ethnic cleansing,鈥 a process he did not explain, that would clear parts of North America for Caucasians and suggested that the new state welcome white refugees from Europe. Spencer advocated a 鈥渟ort of white Zionism鈥 that would infuse whites with the dream of such a homeland just as Zionism helped spur the creation of Israel. 鈥淚t is perfectly feasible for a white state to be established on the North American continent. Action is the easy part,鈥 Spencer opined, adding, 鈥淚 have a dream.鈥
Other speakers took up themes about race and intelligence more common to past American Renaissance conferences. For example, Byron Roth, professor emeritus of psychology at Dowling College, spoke fondly of eugenicists Arthur Jensen and , both of whom died in 2012. Roth explained to the group that American education is failing because of the inferior genetics of its increasingly minority student body. He displayed a series of charts supposedly proving this thesis that showed that the IQs of whites are higher than those of blacks and Latinos, but lower than those of Asians. Roger McGrath, a retired history professor and sometime contributor to the History Channel, spoke as usual on a seemingly unrelated historical topic that serves to extol white achievement. Yesterday, his PowerPoint presentation highlighted World War II flying aces. He called them, 鈥淲arrior Heroes of our Tribe.鈥
The event will be rounded out with speeches by John Derbyshire, who was fired from the conservative publication National Review for his racist rants; Fabrice Robert, president of the Bloc Identitaire, a French nationalist movement; and Sam Dickson, a Holocaust denier and former Klan attorney who has closed every meeting since the conferences began.
Some prominent white nationalists skipped the conference. David Duke published an open letter on March 25 saying that Taylor has requested he stay away because he is 鈥渢oo controversial.鈥 Duke鈥檚 letter reminded attendees not to forget the 鈥渞eal architects of [white] genocide,鈥 which for him are Jews. Don Black, who runs the racist forum Stormfront, also took a pass this year.