Evening. Today, we are going to take a of the whiteistory separatist movement in the United States. Time, whitent separatism is a very marginal political movement. However, in light of very important demographic and political trends, the movement could become more salient in years. That are also white separatists. Separatist denotes different longterm objectives then supremacist. Separatists want an exclusive ethnic or racial mono state. Now supremacist might also be segregationist. That is, they advocate separating different racial troops, but within the same state. Examples would include the jim crow system of racial segregation in the American South or the system of apartheid in south africa. Who claim that white separatism is little more than a facade to make goals seem and byblicly acceptable, claiming to be separatists White Nationalists can present their goals not unlike other movements around the world today. While cloaking their language, white separatists can be seen as more legitimate. Let me give you background on the white separatist movement. The 1960s was a time of great social upheaval. The vietnam war spurred the counterculture. The Civil Rights Movement reached its zenith. There were vigilante groups like klan that resisted civil rights, but they failed. And there were some people in the White Supremacist Movement who thought the country might actually implode under the weight of racial strife. They thought it would be impossible for blacks and whites to occupy the same country in any kind of amicable way. Longer accepting subordinate status. In the 1960s there were instances in which both white separatist and black separatists established a dialogue, coming racial sort of separate states. On a number of occasions, George Lincoln rockwell and members of met withcan nazi party the nation of islam, led by Elijah Mohammed at that time. Because whites were a numerical earlyty of that time white separatists assumed the vast amount of territory would be reserved for the white population. Blacks would be given a small amount of territory, perhaps the American South, to build a socalled new africa. Other racial minorities because negligibleumerically it grew out of the failure of the white White Supremacist Movement. For one thing, white supremacist to establish anything resembling a Mass Movement in america. The 1960s, rockwell believed that race riots would lead to mayhem and favorable conditions for his party to take power. He entertained the idea that his party could win national power. Fell by anl assassins bullet in 1967 and with his departure, some elements of the extreme what extreme right became disillusioned with the conservative approach. Furthermore, the immigration and national nationality act of 1965 really ushered in a sea change in policy. Consequence, the population in america became more ethnically and racially diverse. So the white separatist Movement Really emerged around the 1970s. There were white supremacist groups that began to reformulate strategies. Instead of trying to take over the whole country, they believed it would be more feasible to establish a relatively small, separate white nation in which only likeminded whites would reside. There is an obscure religious screed known as religious identity. That became a vehicle for white separatists. Christian identity has its origin in something known as british israel is him. That first gained popularity in the 19th century in england. That the people of northwest europe are the true descendents of the tribes of israel. According to this narrative, through the criteria, they made their way through the caucuses mountains and eventually settled in western europe. So this sect found its way to america and metamorphosed into something known as christian identity, and leslie swift was thought to be the most important figure in the christian identity heement and in the 1960s recruited someone into the creed. Created the area nations to serve as kind of a political arm of religious group he had previously founded, which was called the church of jesus christ christians. So, it was really butler who proposed the establishment of an exclusively white republic in the pacific northwest, and he called this the butler plan. To that and, he created a compound in idaho which served as the headquarters of the aryan nation. , they the early 1980s compound had really become an important venue for rightwing extremists. There were annual conferences at the compound where people would meet. Nation was not involved in comparison. However, its compound was the focal point where the ideas for creating a clandestine Rightwing Terrorist Group really crystallized. The silent brotherhood, sometimes referred to as the order form in 1973, right about the time federal marshals killed a tax protester during a confrontation in arkansas. Belonged to its you and ask your rightwing group known as the puffy, taught us. They advocated an extreme form of localism. Members of the group believed that the county sheriff should be the highest level of political authority. At the conference, someone by the name of Robert J Matthews came up with the idea of creating an underground resistance group, and so the group conducted a campaign of terror in the pacific northwest. That included bombings and even an armored car heist. Amountok in a whopping that set the record for the most amount of money ever stolen in a robbery. They hoped to found the weight separatist movement in the United States. Finally, the fbi caught up with matthews in Washington State in december 19 84. Matthews hunkered down in a cabin. He refused to surrender, a firefight ensued. Eventually the swat team which had surrounded the cabin lost its patients and lost a pyrotechnic device. The cabin burned down and matthews was killed. All the other members were captured and received long present prison sentences. The order did not accomplish much, however, its campaign thely crystallized revolutionary orientation of the american extreme right. Now the u. S. Government was seen enemy. The extreme right began to take on more of the revolutionary posture. No longer did it seek to preserve the status quo. Rather, it sought to overthrow the u. S. Government, which it it was underow zog, and background for sinus occupation government. White aryan resistance lionized the incarcerated members of the order as prisoners of war. Readers of his newspaper were write letters, send money to family members, and show support. The idea of separatism began to gain more and more popularity in the extreme right subculture. The order was inspired by a book called the turner diaries. It was published in 1970 eight and it went on to become an underground bestseller. According to some estimates, it sold about 450,000 copies. The internetle on probably. You can probably find it in pdf format. It has been translated in a number of european languages. Late dr. Itten i the william l pierce, under the nom de guerre andrew mcdonald. Pierce was a professor who would go on to found and lead a neonazi Organization Called the national alliance. So, the turner diaries is the story of a race war that convulses in america in the late 1990s. In the story, the protagonist of aturner, is a member group called the organization. They fight the u. S. Government. In the novel, the government is controlled by a jewish conspiracy that seeks to destroy the white race. New law takes effect federal agents begin to round up peoples firearms, and so that act serves as a catalyst for the rebellion. The organization catalyzes attacks against the government. The story is a lot of violent episodes interspersed with ideological digressions. There is one particular grisly episode called the day of the rope in which socalled race traitors are hanged by lampposts. Will turner is inducted into the inner circle of the organization, and for his final supposed to fly a crop duster plainly with a Nuclear Weapon into the pentagon. Succeeds, and doing so, the organization creates this new order. Out of all of this destruction, a new order emerges. Onlyworth mentioning, not with the turner diaries inspire a number of rightwing terrorists, but the novel established a genre of literature in the extreme right subculture. Over the years, numerous authors expressed their aspirations in double, which might be interpreted as blueprints for revolution. Besides the Aryan Nations, there was another white separatist group that operated in Northern Arkansas in the late 1970s. Another christian identity minister by the names of james ellison. Attended the organization, he attended meetings, and allison declared himself the dean, the white resistance leader of the american homeland. He provided sanctuary to fugitive members of the order when authorities were pursuing them. They were linked to several episodes of terrorism, including the firebombing of a jewish bloomington,ter at indiana and the bombing of a gay church and sprinkled, missouri in springfield, missouri. Once the authorities had fbiicated the csa, the elite antiterrorism unit the floyd and surrounded the compound. It was the first time the Hostage Rescue Team was deployed. Negotiation, ellison surrounded surrendered without incident. Demise of the order and the csa, the white forratist movement linguist a while. But there was a highly charged incident in august 1992 brought renewed attention to the movement. A few years before, someone by the name of randy weaver a reclusive randy weaver, a soldsive white separatist, to shotguns to an atf informant. Hadon occasion, weaver visited the Aryan Nations compound. The atf essentially offered weaver deal if he would agree to inform on the people in the compound at the area nations. In exchange, he would receive a light penalty for his alleged offenses. For his part, weaver risk used refused the offer and that began a per costed a very protected and costly investigation. 21st, 1992, 6t u. S. Marshals drove out to ruby ridge to conduct reconnaissance of weavers policy. During the answering, a martial shot and killed the familys pet dog, and that set off an exchange of gunfire and a Deputy Marshal was shot and killed by kevin harris. Kevin harris was a friend of the and had been living on their property at that time. So, other marshals fired back, and sammy, randy weavers son, was killed. Agent was killed, automatically the fbi assumes responsibility of the situation. So, once again, the Hostage Rescue Team was deployed. In fbi sniper shot and killed whitney weaver, randys wife, as daughter. Heir infant at the trial, randy weaver and kevin harris were acquitted of the most serious charges. Weaver was convicted of a minor weapons offense. The federal government eventually paid 3. 1 million to the weavers children. Six months later after the ruby ridge fiasco, there was another siege in waco, texas. Although it really wasnt a rightwing group, the people in the extreme right subculture interpreted the raid against the Branch Davidians as a message from the federal government it would have no compunctions about repressing dissident groups. And so, these incidents really galvanized the extreme right culture in america. Moreover, there were numerous white separatist project that began to emerge around this time. For example, the socalled neoconfederates. They seek to secede from the union and create a new, independent southern nation. And this Movement Really crystallized around the mid1990s. Brothers published a book teedo brothers published a book called the south was which they championed the socalled lost cause of the confederacy. Around the time their book was released. The book was released, they were founded in tuscaloosa, alabama. Now, there is a multitude of organizations that compose the southern nationalist movement. Fromovement is far monolithic. Some organizations are divided on particular issues, securely with respect to race. There are two competing camps in the movement. One is racialist and refers to the subornation of anglo celtic in character. The other is strictly territorial and favors, if you will, a diverse dixie in which seven culture can flourish without regard to race. A few years ago, gregory k 4 hisr novels revolution series. It tells the story of a movement in the south that secedes from the United States and establishes a new independent southern nation. Recent controversies surrounding the display of the confederate battle flag has had a polarizing effect in the south between its mostly white defenders who view the flag as part of the regional identity and African Americans who view the flag as a blatant insult, a symbol of past servitude. On the other side of the country, Harold Covington has advocated for the creation of an all white homeland. The organization is called the northwest front. It expands over four decades. And the original European Army left a deep impression on him. He saw the ira as exemplar of a revolutionary movement. Its goals of always been unrealistic. In a country that is estimated to be nonwhite by the seeks to return america to a white majority population. The white separatist goals are more likely to be realized have a better likelihood of success. Publishedin 2003, he a series of novels. Set in the nottoodistant the novels extolled the exploits of the northwest and america has been in long terminal decline and other trends have decimated the white working class. Worse, the u. S. Military was overstretched and all of that really put the federal government in a terrible fiscal predicament. And they create a racially exclusive homeland for whites. They mount a war of attrition that eventually persuades the u. S. Government to relinquish a limited amount of territory. President Chelsea Clinton agrees to an armistice if the rebel cede territory to them. Itsngton began Broadcasting Program called radio free northwest. In the program, he exhorts go to a community of likeminded activists. But even carving out a territory would still be a tall order. As the native cell african explains,rthur kemp they begin to take over local governments and as numbers higher tiers of government, under the control. Inset as examples of colony postapartheid south africa and a zionist project in zionist project. But such seem farcical as examined by an attempt to establish a whites only town in north dakota in 2011. The project did not find many of protest instead from area residents and derision in the media. , met chaim beck has been the most articulate voice of this movement in the United States matt heinebch. Sounded a group called the traditionalist youth network. He believes that the united intos should be divided ethnically homogeneous states. He thinks the most fair and practical way of dividing america would be establishing states not unlike native American Tribal groups have their own regions to control for their respective tribes. In an interview, he told me that most of his followers in latinos. A are separation is the most appropriate course for the country. At the present time he sees the appalachian area as the most Fertile Ground for his separatist aspirations. Where the things that is most significant about him is his energy. Indefatigable. Hes in his mid20s. He is a cobblers order. He gives speeches at rallies. He appears on Television News programs. In a recent interview, i asked him, what form of white separatist Foreign Policy might take . He has traveled to europe on numerous occasions and met with leaders. His proposal would be to unite with various nations around the world better flow that oppose globalism. That would mean treaties with russia, iran, syria, even socialist countries like venezuela. Identifies himself as the leader of the Eurasian Movement in america. Alexander dugan is a political theorist in russia. He calls on them to resist global hegemony. Much of his antiamericanism stems from his strident oppose opposition to liberalism. He says that when taken to its extreme, liberalism ultimately abolishes all forms of collective identity and is therefore a disruptive force. There has been quite a bit written, but it is not clear how in russia. Nce he has according to some observers, his vision has become the lodestar for russian sesident Vladimir PutinForeign Policy. There are some who take issue with white separatism. Some see these as retreats and defeatist and argue that whites should not settle for a lump state in the style of the northwest front. Point outetractors that if whites congregated in one region they would be sitting ducks for a hostile federal government. In his part, dylan roof the alleged massive shooter of the church in charleston last summer rejectedegorically this idea of a local state. To roof, this was analogous to whites fleeing to the suburbs to avoid blacks. Instead, he urged whites to stand up and fight. A trend in to be which the broader White Nationalist movement seems a more amenable to this idea of separatism. In a recent lecture mentioned because there seems to be such strongly held irreconcilable views on race, some in addition to internal critics, the white separatist movement faces very strong opposition from the media, the government, and private monitoring groups. The two most important monitoring groups are the Antidefamation League and the southern poverty law center. They keep a very close watch on the white separatist movement. They share information with Law Enforcement and intelligence agencies,