The Smug Baldy Speaks

The Southern Poverty Law Center publishes a national map of hate groups in the US - and you may be interested to know who your local terrorists are. In 2006, there were 22 active hate groups here in Alabama, two of which were active in the Mobile area. Here, the Neo-Confederate group the League of the South is active, as is the Nation of Islam.

According to the SPLC,

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.

The Nation of Islam is considered a a hate group because:

Black separatists typically oppose integration and racial intermarriage, and they want separate institutions — or even a separate nation — for blacks. Most forms of black separatism (or black nationalism) are strongly anti-white and anti-Semitic, and a number of religious versions assert that blacks — not Jews — are the Biblical “chosen people” of God.

Although the Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes that much black racism in America is, at least in part, a response to centuries of white racism, it believes racism must be exposed in all its forms. White groups espousing beliefs similar to black separatists would be considered clearly racist. The same criteria should be applied to all groups regardless of their color.

Take a look at the SPLC and see if there are hate groups in your neck of the woods. If you find that there are hate groups close to your home, then take a look at 10 Ways You Can Fight Hate And Promote Tolerance.