The Southern Poverty Law Center is always under the constant threat of violence, due to its confrontational stance against racism and the hate groups that procreated it. Though recently it has found itself even more so because of lawsuit it filed against the nation's second largest Klan group (IKA) for the vicious beating of a 16-year-old boy.
Morris Dees from the SPLC stated that ever since Klansmen torched their building, they have to take every threat seriously. He also stated that the latest case against the IKA promises to be as dangerous as anything they have ever faced. Having personally done extensive research on the prevalence of hate and racist groups throughout the U.S. and the violence attributed to them, I tend to agree with Mr. Dees assessment. The following are examples of threats made against the Southern Poverty Law Center and its staff.
"The SPLC destroyed the United Klans of America and not one of their members did anything about it. The SPLC then destroyed Aryan Nations -- and not one of their members did anything about it. Now the SPLC is going after IKA. We all know the proper response; it is time to make it!"
Hal Turner,
national white supremacist leader
"I say we should blow up their buildings."
Anonymous,
hate group website "
I would personally enjoy playing Baghdad Shia/Sunni torture chamber with these pukes in the splc. Craftsman makes a good cordless drill that will put a 1/2" bit through a few dozen knee caps before having to replace the battery."
TexaSS Bob,
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37 Hate Groups Found
The Christian Identity religion asserts that whites, not Jews, are the true Israelites favored by God in the Bible. In most of its forms, Identity theology depicts Jews as biologically descended from Satan, while non-whites are seen as soulless "mud people" created with the other Biblical "beasts of the field."
Ku Klux Klan
164 Hate Groups Found
The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups. Although black Americans have typically been the Klan's primary target, it also has attacked Jews, immigrants, homosexuals and, until recently, Catholics. Over the years since it was formed in December 1865, the Klan has typically seen itself as a Christian organization, although in modern times Klan groups are motivated by a variety of theological and political ideologies.
Neo-Nazi
191 Hate Groups Found
Neo-Nazi groups share a hatred for Jews and a love for Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. While they also hate other minorities, homosexuals and even sometimes Christians, they perceive "the Jew" as their cardinal enemy, and trace virtually all social problems to a Jewish conspiracy that supposedly controls governments, financial institutions and the media.
Neo-Confederate
102 Hate Groups Found
Many groups celebrate traditional Southern culture and the Civil War's dramatic conflict between the Union and the Confederacy. But some groups go further and embrace racist attitudes towards blacks and, in some cases, white separatism. Such groups are listed in this category.
The League of the South, founded in 1994 and counting some 9,000 members by 2001, is at the center of the racist neo-Confederate movement. Calling once again for Southern secession, the League's leaders say minorities are destroying the "Anglo-Celtic" (white) culture of the South. They oppose most non-white immigration and all interracial marriages. Founder Michael Hill, a former college professor, has called blacks "a deadly and compliant underclass" and has embraced well-known white supremacists such as North Carolina attorney Kirk Lyons.
Racist Skinhead
79 Hate Groups Found
Racist skinheads form a particularly violent element of the white supremacist movement, and have often been referred to as the "shock troops" of the hoped-for revolution. The classic skinhead look is a shaved head, black Doc Martens boots, jeans with suspenders and an array of typically racist tattoos.
The skinhead phenomenon began in the industrial cities of 1960s Britain as a working-class movement strongly marked by contempt for hippies and middle-class youth. Though drugs and violence were always part of the skinhead scene, skinheads originally embraced Afro-Caribbean music and were of different races. But British fascists were able to precipitate a split in the movement between racist and antiracist elements — a split that has endured to the present day, both in Britain and in the United States, where skins first arrived in the early 1980s. Racist skins are referred to by their enemies as "boneheads." Antiracist skins are often referred to as SHARPs, a reference to a now essentially defunct group known as Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice
White Nationalist
110 Hate Groups Found
White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites. Groups listed in a variety of other categories — Ku Klux Klan, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, and Christian Identity — could also be fairly described as white nationalist. The groups below range from those that use racial slurs and issue calls for violence to others that present themselves as serious, non-violent organizations and employ the language of academia. For many years, the largest white nationalist group in America has been the Council of Conservative Citizens, a reincarnation of the old White Citizens Councils that were formed to resist desegregation in the 1950s and 1960