Former Rep. Goode is scheduled to speak tomorrow at the University of North Carolina, where he is hosted by the "
Youth for Western Civilization." Youth for Western Civilization is "America's right wing youth movement" according to their website. They oppose diversity and support "Western culture." Goode's speech is entitled "Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Multiculturalism."(sic)
The UNC Chapter's President, Riley Matheson, recently gave an interview to a local paper. In it he refuses to condemn the Inquisition, or take a stand on interracial marriage.
We're constantly focusing on the sins of our past. It's not to say they weren't sins. It's just to say that we need to revitalize our culture and not constantly talk about mistakes we might have made. We've long since made up for the sins we might have committed.
Do you mean slavery and the Inquisition?
I can definitely say that slavery's one of the sins. When it comes to things like the Inquisition, I'd rather not comment--I don't want to condemn it. That's a personal opinion, and not really a club opinion.
And regarding interracial marriage?
Does your group favor a homogenous culture in the U.S.? Do you take an official stance on interracial marriage?
We have to be realistic about things like interracial marriage. It is pretty clear that studies have shown that well over 90 percent of people marry within their own race. Is that a problem? I suppose so. But we don't have any official stance on that.
You don't worry about interracial marriage affecting Western heritage?
YWC is not racial. This is a cultural civilization type of thing, which different people can be assimilated into. This is not racial. None of the official positions--you might find somebody at the club who might hold some opinions on that, and indeed you will--but in terms of YWC itself, no. There really isn't any kind of official position or stance (on interracial marriage).
Well it's not like they support segregation!
One thing we have to realize is the reason we're a diverse country is because people naturally segregate themselves according to their differences. If it weren't for that segregation, we wouldn't be a diverse culture.
Okay, maybe that chapter's President is just one bad seed. The whole YWC can't be racist, can it? According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
One of the group's founders, Marcus Epstein, is a frequent contributor to the white nationalist hate website VDARE.com.
"Diversity can be good in moderation -- if what is being brought in is desirable," Epstein wrote in one VDARE.com essay. "Most Americans don't mind a little ethnic food, some Asian math whizzes, or a few Mariachi dancers -- as long as these trends do not overwhelm the dominant culture."
Epstein is also the head of the Robert A. Taft Club, a Washington, D.C., group whose events regularly feature prominent academic racists like Jared Taylor, the editor of the overtly white supremacist journal American Renaissance.
Another Youth for Western Civilization founder, Kevin DeAnna, has posted several times in recent years to the Spartan Spectator, the website of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, or MSU-YAF.
In 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified MSU-YAF as a hate group after it organized a "Catch an Illegal Alien Day" game, sponsored a "Koran desecration contest," jokingly threatened to distribute small-pox infected blankets to Native American students, posted "Gays spread AIDS" fliers, called Latino students and faculty members "savages," and invited Nick Griffin, the chairman of the neofascist British National Party, to speak on the MSU campus.
"The point is that all Christians, and white Christians in particular, don't owe any deference to the self-defined racial separatist customs of other people," DeAnna posted to Spartan Spectator in July 2007.
The Young Americans for Freedom mentioned above, are also holding an event for Virgil Goode on April 27th. His address on "The Creeping Influence of Islam in America" should be in the same vein.
Virgil Goode has filed as a candidate for 2010. A candidate for Congress, and certainly no Congressman, should support the beliefs of the YWC or the YAF.
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