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(171,079 posts) Sat Aug 4, 2018, 07:11 PM Aug 2018

Kris Kobach's gubernatorial campaign reportedly employs 3 white nationalists

Kris Kobach’s gubernatorial campaign reportedly employs 3 white nationalists
There's a reason they were drawn to Kobach's campaign.
Rebekah Entralgo
Aug 4, 2018, 2:31 pm

Kris Kobach, the Republican Secretary of State from Kansas, employs three members of a white nationalist group in his campaign for governor, according to a report in the Topeka Capital-Journal.

The newspaper said in an article late Friday that it learned about the extreme political views of the three men from GOP consultants who have worked in Republicans circles in the state.

The men, all in their early 20s, are members of American Heritage Initiative, a sub-group of Identity Evropa, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a campus-based white supremacy group that builds community from shared racial identity. The SPLC states, members of the group don’t identify as “racists” but rather, “identitarians” interested in preserving Western culture.

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The three men attracted controversy over the years with racist comments.

In a discussion group for the Kansas Federation of College Republicans, one of the men posted an image of a student reading “Brown is the New White,” a book about America’s new multicultural majority and the potential voting power the group would have if mobilized.

Under the image he posted a comment spelling out the N-word and wrote:

“These people know they’re not oppressed. They just hate white people and are jealous of us. They know they can bully us with the oppression stuff until they’re granted EXTRA rights, because most have been brainwashed with disingenuous, weaponized, cherry picked history into white guilt. They won’t stop until we grow a spine. The USA is the least racist country in the world. We have so much racial tension because we ALLOW and SUBSIDIZE tens of millions of people from other groups to come here.”

That three members of a white nationalist group would be attracted to Kobach’s campaign is not surprising, given the candidates history of cozying up to hate groups and their policies. In October of 2016 Kobach spoke at a White Nationalist group conference. A vocal Trump supporter, Kobach joined the Trump transition team later that year to advise him on immigration policies.

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https://thinkprogress.org/kris-kobachs-gubernatorial-campaign-reportedly-employs-3-white-nationalists-76cdfc2d9325/