July 27, 2015

The Vast, Hidden Community Of Racial Hatred In America

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/23/3683234/vast-hidden-community-racial-hatred-america/
"Christian Identity refers to a swath of American religious sects that consider white Europeans, rather than the Jewish people, the true descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. According to the Anti-Defamation League, “many of the major conspiracies and violent acts by right-wing extremists in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s can be attributed in whole or in part to adherents of Christian Identity, including shooting sprees, bombings and bomb plots, and armed robberies. Christian Identity mingled with neo-Nazis, through groups such as Aryan Nations; it appealed to many racist skinheads; and it took root in a number of Klan groups, some of which became exclusively Christian Identity in nature.”
It was this ideology that reportedly stirred Larry McQuilliams, who was shot and killed by police last year after firing more than 100 rounds into the downtown Austin area and attempting to burn down the Mexican Consulate. McQuilliams was allegedly inspired by the book Vigilantes of Christendom, a notorious tract which claims that anyone who acts with violence against “race mixers,” homosexuals and abortionists is automatically drafted into the secretive and elite Phineas Priesthood."