Um. This is beyond weird.

[xiphias]

Esquire Magazine did an article interviewing several leaders of White Supremacist movements in the United States about who they were voting for for President.

I'm using the same pull-quote that swan_tower used.

White people are faced with either a negro or a total nutter who happens to have a pale face. Personally I’d prefer the negro.

-- Rocky Suhayda, Chairman, American Nazi Party

Comments

[ron_newman]

"We're voting for the nigger" (and another, from the same site)

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just don't know what to say about all of that. There just aren't words.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that I'm not surprised the "We're voting for the nigger" thing happened in PA? Cause I'm not. Thanks.

People are weird about their racism. My father likes to tell the story about his mother...she had this habit of taking in strays. One of them was a black lady whose husband was abusing her who ISTR was somebody in the family's maid at some point. Anyway, my grandmother moved her into the house with the family, where she lived for the rest of her life. However, she was quite prone to spouting off about black people at any given time, so my father used to say to her, "Well, what about her, she's black", and she would get all annoyed and say, "Not her. She's DIFFERENT".

And then he would bring up about a billion other black people she knew, and she'd say the same thing every time.

So basically anyone she knew PERSONALLY was exempt from her bad opinion of black people, and she was fine with getting to know any individual black person and having them become exempt. It was just the Strangers Out There.

Bigotry and fear are weird, weird things.

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I can't find the story now but last week, I read an interview with some white supremacist who was advising others to vote for Obama, as he felt that having a black president would drive more people to his group.

Man, that's messed up.

[cheshyre]

The Ezra Klein entry I showed you:

I knocked on a door in Ohio and when the guy opened it the first thing I saw was his hand-- with a swastika and a skull tattooed on the back. I was bracing for a short and ugly conversation, but he saw the Obama button and his face just lit up as he told me how great it was that I was out there and how much Ohio needed a change after eight years of Republican rule.

[florafloraflora.livejournal.com]

Hey, if they want to make like Lenin and heighten the contradictions, I think I will let them.

Other than that: I'll take incoherent scum over coherent, disciplined scum any day.

[theclamsman.livejournal.com]

That pic looks Photoshopped, BUT Max (on my friends page) did a post about the Esquire article.

The gist is that these white supremecists see Obama as a black surpemecist/racist, so his racism is a-o.k. with them.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Sort of the inverse of when KKK Grand Dragon or some such David Duke ran for Louisiana governor against someone (I think a former governor, but I'm not sure) who'd been convicted on corruption charges.

The informal campaign slogan against Duke was "Vote for the crook. It's important."

[tpau]

i must say... anytime a white supremacist or Nazi says they support someone i am much more inclined to vote tthe opposite on general principle...