According to the Kevin Alfred Strom of the neo-Nazi web publication National Vanguard, the sweet Aryan lass -- "a lovely White woman seated in a field of flowers. She has no Black arm around her. She is part of no multiracial "team." Her fair skin is softly shining in the lights as you get closer. She is the image of natural beauty, innocence, wholesomeness. You notice she bears the symbol of life on her simple White dress" -- is pictured on one of three highway billboards currently sponsored by this group nationwide.
Past National Vanguard billboards were removed after public protest. News coverage of the protest and removal was a good thing for their "cause", they believe: "And the news coverage spreads our message of hope -- and our contact information -- farther than ever. Thanks to everyone, friend and foe, who made all this possible!"
Remember that post-election "Our Leader" billboard of George Bush? I thought that was pretty spooky, but this is a whole new level of frightening.
Meanwhile, Strom claims, this billboard is attracting a whole bunch of fresh new white supremacists:
The message, too, is simple: "News. For us. For a change." And then the url of our news site, NationalVanguard.org, in letters thirty feet across. Different enough and intriguing enough to get people to visit -- our kind of people. Our people.
There are few greater thrills than to come over the rise on the expressway at twilight and see our billboard there, dominating the horizon. It's a statement for White community and White media that cannot be ignored. The painting of the White woman, entitled Life's Spring, is by the sensitive and talented artist Alfred Sundvall, whose work I have featured before as National Vanguard magazine cover art and as the CD and cassette cover art for the music album Call of the Blood by Dresden. And the billboard has definitely increased our Web traffic -- we are getting a very noticeable increase in letters at the site from people who had never heard about us before, and from the tone of the letters, there's a real demand for the stereotype-shattering news and commentary and fiction and poetry and art that we offer.