Blood and Politics: This new book about White Supremacists explains why you should worry

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August 11, 6:48 PM
Federal Way Independent Examiner

It was a solemn weekday morning as I looked to settle in to a good cup of tea at a Cafe. On the way to my favorite stop, I picked up a copy of "The Stranger", a rather unfamiliar paper to me. Sure enough, it looked like the typical "liberal media source", to quote my GOP friends.

But then as I read further, an article written by one Paul Constant caught my attention. It was titled, "The Church of Hate" and it delved into the history of the White Nationalist Movement in the United States with reference to a recent book authored by Leonard Zeskind and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

The book which formed the crux of Constant's piece is another MUST READ by Mr. Zeskind and it is titled: "Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream." Exhaustively researched, this book which took 15 years to write not only warns of a resurgence in racist politics even moreso with the well documented vast improvements in race relations, but alerts us as to the tactics, modes of operation and machinations of white supremacist, neo-nazi, Holocaust-denier and anti-semitic groups in the United States.

The agenda of the racist right, the book asserts are packaged in the usual talking points centering around nativist immigration and other causes that speak to the parochial/xenophobic inclinations of their target audience.

Paul Constant's piece linked rather accurately the main points of Mr. Zeskind's book to recent events, particularly relating to the recent "tea party" protests where the Fox News manipulated show of "American Discontent" merely revealed the sub-plots of the occasion in itself. At the same tax protests, conservative groups "feigned outrage" at a recent Department of Homeland Security memo which warned of the activities of right-wing nationalist movements and how those activities could pose a major domestic threat to the United States, in light more-so of the country's recent election of the first African-American President.