“If we are interested in examining themotives of violence, we should examine frequent, chronic crimes ratherthan aberrant cases…,”
Last week’s shooting death of anAfrican-American security guard by a self-professed white supremacistat the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., has brought tolight the fact that hate-based violence can still occur in very closeproximity to our everyday lives.
TheSouthern Poverty Law Center, which makes an annual national list ofactive hate groups, defines them as having “beliefs or practices thatattack or malign an entire class of people, typically for theirimmutable characteristics.”
James Wenneker von Brunn, 88, who shot and killed 39-year-old Tyrone Johns, has certainly lived his life by that definition.
In2002, von Brunn wrote “Kill the Best Gentiles!”, a book in which hesays that much of Europe, Australia and Canada was “over-run by hordesof non-Whites and mongrels.”
According to the SPLC,there are at least four separate organizations in Fairfax County thathold similar opinions and are officially considered hate groups.
Oneis the American Renaissance/New Century Foundation in Oakton. Accordingto the SPLC, it is classified as a white nationalist organization.
Itsleader, Jared Taylor, is a dapper, erudite intellectual who is fluentin Japanese. He was educated at Yale, but has since adopted aphilosophy that he calls “race realism.”
Taylor, who accordingly identifies himself as a “race realist,” said there are three primary components to that definition.
“First,we believe that race is a legitimate, biological phenomenon. Second,there are racial differences that go beyond mere appearance, andthirdly, we have a sense of racial solidarity,” he said. “Racialdiversity is a source of conflict and tension rather than being astrength.”