Few realize that we've had a Yale man in the White House for 27 years straight. It started when George H. W. Bush entered the executive branch as Ronald Reagan's vice-president in 1981 and ushered in an era of Yale dominace over the oval office that continues to this day. The elder Bush, a Yale man through and through, graduated into the presidency and was soon replaced by the Yale lawyer Bill Clinton for two terms. Clinton was followed by Yale's pride and joy, George W. Bush, for a period yet to be determined. There is only one candidate who can continue the tradition, Hillary Rodham Clinton. As the Yale trained lawyer desperately tries to continue New Haven's stranglehold on the most important job in the world, I think it's time we examine the history of white supremacism at Yale.
Few are aware that Yale is the birthplace of the same quasi-religion shared by white supremacist groups. It was in the late 1700’s when Ezra Stiles, Yale’s president at the time, a religious scholar and theologian who made Hebrew a mandatory class for Yale graduates, gave life to the view that blacks are subhuman, Jews are the offspring of Satan, and that Northern Europeans, specifically Celts and Germans, are the real Israelites. That's right, Christian Identity started at Yale.
I doubt few students at the prestigious Ivy League university are aware that they are being educated in what was once the womb of America’s white supremacy movement. Stiles was looking for a way to justify America’s independence and its new ruling class. He found it in the Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland’s call for independence in 1320. This document traces the Scottish bloodline back to biblical times and claims that the Scots are God’s true chosen people. The declaration promotes the idea that Celtic people are descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. This idea is also known as British Israelism. It is not surprising that believers in this idea, like the Aryan Nations, are just as fanatical about tartans, bagpipes and Scottish culture as they are about swastikas and Nazi regalia.
Although located in the Northeast, Yale was a favorite school for wealthy Southern plantation owners to send their boys. It gained the reputation as being the College of the South and graduated some of the worst racists in American history. The big ongoing controversy at Yale is that so many of its schools are named after slave traders, slave owners, and white supremacists in general. There's the Ezra Stiles College, of course, while the Samuel Morse College is right next door. Most know Morse as the inventor of the telegraph, few know that he fought for the institution of slavery with every ounce of his being. It is hard to describe how insanely racist Morse was, which is why it is equally hard to understand why Yale honored him with a building in 1962 at the height of the Civil Rights struggle. Another building honors John C. Calhoun, one of the most powerful defenders of slavery leading up to the Civil War and an virulent racist. Calhoun was a senator from South Carolina and two-time U.S. vice-president who went on to commit treason against the government he once led.
At the turn of the century, Yale led the way in the field of eugenics, the racist pseudo-science that paved the way for Adoph Hitler's campaign against the Jews. Yale's Madison Grant wrote "The Passing of the Great Race" in 1916. This book claimed that "inferior races" were growing far faster than the better breed, the Nordic people. Grant's prescription was quite disturbing; he advocated compulsory sterilization and euthanasia, and called for the elimination of undesirables and the extermination of worthless races. Unbelievably, this was an opinion widely held by some of the top intellectuals in America at the turn of the century. Like global warming is today, everyone talked about it, from Andrew Carnegie to the railroad baron, E.H. Harriman, and Grant became known around the world. Adolph Hitler wrote to Grant saying, "The book is my Bible."
The tradition of eugenics was carried into the future by Harriman's wife Mary, the mother of Averell and E. Roland Harriman. The Brother's Harriman were loyal Yale alumni and played a huge part in promoting the secret Skull and Bones fraternity. They came into contact with the Bush dynasty in 1920 when George Herbert Walker teamed up with Averell Harriman to obtain the Hamburg-Amerika shipping line in 1920. The Harriman's business involvements with the Nazi regime is well documented as is their involvement with population control.
Yale became the seat of power for those opposed to fighting Adolph Hiter. America First was formed at Yale and became the vehicle opposing FDR's attempts at stopping fascism. It's leadership would grow to include white supremacists like Herbert Hoover and Charles Lindgergh who's anti-semitic statements revealed the group's true intent.
One of the reasons Hillary Clinton chose Yale Law was her admiration of William F. Buckley. Buckley, the leader of the modern conservative movement was a proud Yalie. He became famous for his book, "God and Yale," and was no doubt intimately familiar with Stiles and British Israelism. Buckley was partly responsible for the rise of America's neo-Nazi movement as he had hired Lincoln Rockwell and Revilo P. Oliver to work for him at the National Review. Buckley would go on to help form the John Birch Society, a group that fought against Civil Rights claiming it was a communist plot. Buckley would distance himself from the group when its extremist views became public.
It is easy to mock anyone who brings up Yale's Skull and Bones, but since America has been led for 11 of the last 2o years by members of this group, I would be doing a disservice to the reader if I ignored it. However, I will address it on another day as it is much too controversial to be discussed here. Suffice it to say, it is the pride and joy of the Harriman and Bush dynasties.
It was at Yale that Hillary met Bill, both in the middle of dramatic life defining moments. Hillary, born and bred to be a hard right, conservative Republican was trying out her new skin as a liberal activist. Bill was fresh from a stint at Oxford where he sat out the Vietnam War having received a Rhodes Scholarship. This particular scholarship was from the endowment of one of the greatest white supremcists of them all, Cecil Rhodes, a fact not be lost on Bill Clinton and which must have conflicted him deeply.
The Clinton's have played a big part in continuing the Harriman tradition. Pamela Harriman, Averill's last wife and heir, was one of Bill's biggest financial backers. She was adament in making sure that the Democratic Party reflected her values of population control and abortion and remained very close to the Clinton's until her death in 1997. Bill Clinton honored her with a state funeral, which is a rare thing indeed for a political donor.
Yale's history of white supremacism is disturbing to say the least. If it is to continue, it will be because Hillary Clinton's racially charged campaign was successful.