Although Tanton has been linked to racist ideas in the past — fretting about the "educability" of Latinos, warning of whites being out-bred by others, and publishing a number of white nationalist authors — the papers in the Bentley Library show that Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, former Klan lawyers and the leading white nationalist thinkers of the era. He introduced key FAIR leaders to the president of the
Pioneer Fund, a white supremacist group set up to encourage "race betterment," at a 1997 meeting at a private club. He wrote a major funder to encourage her to read the work of a radical anti-Semitic professor — to "give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life" — and suggested that the entire FAIR board discuss the professor's theories on the Jews. He practically worshipped a principal architect of the Immigration Act of 1924 (instituting a national origin quota system and barring Asian immigration), a rabid anti-Semite whose pro-Nazi American Coalition of Patriotic Societies was indicted for sedition in 1942.
As early as 1969, Tanton showed a sharp interest in eugenics, the "science" of breeding a better human race that was utterly discredited by the Nazis, trying to find out if Michigan had laws allowing forced sterilization.
In a Nov. 13, 1994, letter to white nationalist columnist Lawrence Auster, a regular correspondent, Tanton suggested that the Declaration of Independence was actually a document based on the "bond of blood and ethnicity — nationhood." Almost a year earlier, in a Dec. 10, 1993, letter to Garrett Hardin, a controversial ecology professor, he said: "I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that." On Jan. 26, 1996, he wrote Roy Beck, head of the immigration restrictionist group
NumbersUSA(and then an employee of Tanton's foundation U.S. Inc.), questioning whether Latinos were capable of governing California.
How ya'll accept everything without critical thinking is beyond me, but it's troublesome.
now what? that can stand indefinitely but how does that address the fact that Yvette is on the board of an organization that's a White Supremacist front? I really need to know, cuz no one here is actually SAYING anything. It's just one stars with no comment or in @JussieSmollett's case, "But The Data
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this is the bullshyt we're on dealing with right now. Every week, it's "Joy Reid ABC", "Jim Clyburn XYZ", "The Democrats 123" and okay, fine, that's cool. But when the heat gets turned to someone like Yvette it's radio silence and dinner suggestions
What are ya'll really for? Reparations or personalities?
think that a few chicken coup dwelling powerc00ns polishing their fiddles while groveling at the feet of white liberalism = giving somebody a bad week.
