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June 26, 2017 By Ferrell Foster / Christian Life Commission

Alt-right racism is both like and unlike the old racism. Like: It sees the white race as superior and in need of protection. Unlike: It is generally educated, secular and young.

Ferrell Foster

The Southern Baptist Convention brought the alt-right to center stage in mid-June, when it initially failed to consider a resolution condemning racist aspects of the alt-right.Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed, and SBC messengers approved a revised resolution, which decried every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy, as antithetical to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Messengers also said, We denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as of the devil.

Alt-right is a loosely defined term. It dates back to 2008 in one form but has been reappropriated more recently.

Last year, a University of Alabama political scientist, George Hawley, told The Washington Post the alt-right is predominantly an online phenomenon, and amorphous and somewhat diverse in terms of what the people who associate with the movement want, but really the core of the alt-right is white nationalismor, at least, white identity politics.

AltRight.com is led by Richard Spencer, probably the most visible white supremacist in the United States today.

In their own words

A Primer Text on the site says: The United States is being overrun by hordes of non-white immigrants, legal and illegal, fundamentally altering its demographic landscape in key cities and driving a stake through the heart of its culture. The whole of Northern and Western Europe is similarly being flooded with Muslim immigrants who are gaining more influence as their numbers grow and the elected leaders refuse to do anything about it. The Great Replacement is well underway.

The primer cites the scientific theory of evolution and natural selection to defend its position regarding racial differences. It also affirms the importance of white identity and says genocide of the white race is ongoing: Mass immigration of non-whites into white countries, forced assimilation by traitorous governments, media and entertainment industries that encourage miscegenation, and liberal egalitarian professors that demonize Whiteness and Western Civilization are just a few examples of the program of genocide against all people of European descent. The federal governments refusal to enforce immigration laws, its refusal to curtail illegal immigration, and as forced assimilation is all anti-Whites need in order to eventually exterminate or subsume us as a race since it leaves no homeland for (sic) exclusive to Whites.

Nation under attack

The alt-right is painting a picture of the United States as a white nation under attack from non-whites. It does not recognize that from our earliest days, the United States has been a place where all types of diverse people have come together.

Initially, the insiders were narrowly defined as English-speakers who dissented from the Church of England. But quickly, other English-speakers and Catholics joined the mix. Texas has distinctive German and Czech communities that reflect the non-English-speaking Europeans who crossed the Atlantic, and annexation of Texas brought in a Hispanic population that predated the English-speakers on the land. Asians became another important part of the national fabric. And, of course, a huge population of Africans was forced into slavery in the United States

The United States has been a mixing place for centuries, even though white males held power. And the alt-right is pushing for a return of white male dominance. Their propaganda is not just against non-whites; it is against womenand what they consider to be weak or emasculated men.

Loosely related

That said, I must come back to stress the alt-right is not some easily defined and identified movement. It is a label for loosely related people.

It is sometimes even hard to know if some of these people are being serious. Hawley, the Alabama professor, says: The alt-right has been able to successfully brand itself as an edgy and fun and ironic movement that takes pleasure in needling both liberals and conservatives, and its tongue-in-cheek and rebellious as opposed to just being motivated by (the) genocidal hatred that you would see from people like William Pierce.

But he adds: A lot of the people who are sharing alt-right material online are just trolling and find it funny, but the people who are really dedicated content creators, the people who are spending massive amounts of time on this, this is more than just trollingor if it is trolling, its trolling for a purpose. Its not just because they find it funny.

a no-brainer

That is a quick summary about the alt-right. Because of the alt-rights white nationalism and white supremacy, you can understand why Texas Pastor Dwight McKissic proposed the SBC adopt a resolution against the ideology.

I thought it would be a no-brainer, I thought it would be a slam-dunk, McKissic told Roland Martin on One News Now, after the SBC initially refused to consider his resolution. I thought they had turned a corner, at least in the sense of being able to intellectually, theoretically, biblically, affirm what the Bible says, that one God created all men equally.

The SBC did get it right the next day with the revised resolution, but the approved resolution left out two aspects of McKissics proposalthe so-called curse of Ham and the political aspect of alt-right ideology.

The Texas pastors proposal said: Whereas, the roots of White Supremacy within a Christian context is based on the so-called curse of Ham theory once prominently taught by the SBC in the early yearsechoing the belief that God through Noah ordained descendants of Africa to be subservient to Angloswhich provided the theological justification for slavery and segregation. The SBC officially renounces the curse of Ham theory in this resolution .

After three whereas statements dealing with politics, McKissics proposal included this statement: Resolved, that we reject the retrograde ideologies, xenophobic biases and racial bigotries of the so-called alt-right that seek to subvert our government, destabilize society, and infect our political system.

The approved SBC resolution excluded these two subjects.

Myths vs. facts

The curse of Ham theory still courses through the Christian South. It is part of the reason so many church-goers can still be racist and think little of it. They feel they have biblical justification. They dont. And we must continue to attack this falsehood.

Dallas Pastor Tony Evans does a great job of undermining the curse of Ham myth in his book, Oneness Embraced. Myths, however, do not need facts, they simply need supporters, Evans writes.

I have not found reference to the curse of Ham in alt-right literature, but the idea is there among racists who call themselves Christians. The adopted SBC resolution, by failing to condemn the so-called curse of Ham, leaves room for supporters of this falsehood to continue moving through Southern congregations as the venomous evil spirit of racism they embody.

I will not go into this error much, but any of us can go to that wonderful source of popular wisdom, Wikipedia, and learn the basics. As that entry begins, The Curse of Ham is a misnomer for the curse upon Canaan, Hams son, that was imposed by the biblical patriarch Noah. The curse referred to the people Israel would later conquer in occupying Palestine, the promised land. Canaan did not refer to black people.

The curse of Ham is a double lie. Noah cursed Canaan, not Ham, and Canaan does not refer to people of African descent.

Now, as to politics being left out of the approved resolution. The alt-right is seen as an important part of the electoral support behind Donald Trump.The final resolution steps gingerly around the issue of widespread Southern evangelical support for Trump in the election. This is understandable. Many Southern evangelicals who voted for Trump say they were primarily voting against Hillary Clinton. They do not want to be branded as racists because of their vote.

I hope the SBC resolution will surface the reality of the white supremacy and white nationalism associated with the alt-right. Racism keeps surfacing in various ways because evil doesnt give up easily.

Its important we understand the wolf when it reappears in new sheeps clothing.

(Note: For a straightforward presentation on what the Bible says about race, visit the Christian Life Commission website.)

Ferrell Foster is director of ethics and justice for the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission.

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A Look at the Alt-Right Movement as It Seeks Mainstream Recognition NBCNews.com A Look at the Alt-Right Movement as It Seeks Mainstream Recognition. Sun, Jun 25. The movement believes in protecting white European identity ideas traditionally associated with white supremacy. Its founder, Richard Spencer, credits the election of ...

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In Washington, D.C., on Sunday afternoon, the two camps of the pro-Trump far-right showed just how much they hated each other.

They held their own separate diminutive events, just a mile apart, with leaders of each rally taking time to insult or diminish the attendees and organizers of the other.

People attend a rally about free speech outside of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 25, 2017.

In Lafayette Park, just a stones throw away from the White House, the Rally Against Political Violence took place under the beating afternoon sun. It was advertised as an opportunity for speakers to condemn the recent shooting of GOP Rep. Steve Scalise at a congressional baseball practice as well as the graphic depictions of President Trumps death in both a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar and a generally loathed Kathy Griffin photoshoot.

The sparse crowd of a couple hundred spread out across the lawn, some carrying CNN is ISIS placards while one man lifted a banner for the fictional country Kekistan and discussed the proper pronunciation of covfefe, a tweet from the president with a noticeable typo that has taken on mythic status.

The speakers themselves, from Gateway Pundits White House Correspondent Lucian Wintrich to Mike Cernovich, something of a pro-Trump media celebrity reporter and a recent addition to the InfoWars lineup, mingled in the crowd before taking the podium for brief speeches. Michael Flynn Jr., the son of the former national security adviser, paraded the grounds Periscoping the event as the day went on.

Rhys Baker of Washington, DC reacts to U.S. Park Police instruction to remove himself from the vicinity of a demonstration organized by self-proclaimed White Nationalists and members of the "Alt-Right" during what right-wing factions called a "Freedom of Speech" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. June 25, 2017.

Organized and emceed by Jack Posobiec, a previous employee of therebel.media who became a viral sensation when he interrupted a recent production of the aforementioned Julius Caesar, the event included a host of speeches from these primarily pro-Trump media figures, often decrying fake news.

Jack Posobiec attends a rally about free speech outside of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 25, 2017.

But one of the main potential draws to the event, longtime Trump ally and ratfucker himself Roger Stone, did not actually make it in person. Posobiec attributed his absence to security concerns and instead read supportive texts from him to the crowd toward the end of the event.

This conspicuous absence provided fuel for the most prominent speaker of the competing event at the Lincoln Memorial.

Mike Cernovich speaks during a rally about free speech outside of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 25, 2017.

Richard Spencer, the man who raised his media profile last year to become one of the figureheads of the alt-right, spoke at the Freedom of Speech Rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where he contended more people showed up than at Posobiecs event.

And he took the opportunity to trash the other rally in the process, saying that it was just a movement based on these fairly repulsive and creepy minor league celebrities.

Roger Stone bailed because the whole thing is so pathetic, Spencer said laughing during a phone interview with The Daily Beast. It was actually far more pathetic than I had imagined.

People attend a rally about free speech outside of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 25, 2017.

Despite the small crowd, and a few technical difficulties in which various songs unintentionally played out of the speaker at Lafayette Park during some of the attendees speeches, Posobiec didnt seem deterred after the event.

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It was a great event! I got a crowd of Trump supporters to sing Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon and thats a testament to our commitment to peace and our stand against violence and violent rhetoric, Posobiec said in a private message to The Daily Beast.

This supposed turf war, egged on by Spencer, between the more ideological nativist far-right wing and the pro-Trump media figures whose followings have grown exponentially since his election, has been fought essentially since the day Trump won last November.

White Nationalist and supremacist leader Richard Spencer (C) finishes addressing self proclaimed "White Nationalists" and "Alt-Right" supporters gathered for what they called a "Freedom of Speech" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. June 25, 2017

It bubbled to the surface last December over the organization of an inaugural event called The Deplora-Ball, in which social media personality Baked Alaska (also in attendance at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday) was asked not to attend the event. From there, Spencer began to dub the likes of Posobiec and Cernovich, the alt-lite, nothing more than what he believed to be ideologically vacant people just out to promote themselves.

I think a lot of those people are really against intelligent people, Spencer said of the other rally to The Daily Beast. If youre a total goofball or someone who has no connection with the facts and reality, its like ok youre fucking based. Theyre all just bad human beings. So many of them are just physically ugly people.

Nathan Damigo speaks to self-proclaimed White Nationalists and members of the "Alt-Right" gathered for what they called a "Freedom of Speech" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. June 25, 2017.

He claimed that the divergent events on Sunday were actually helpful for the alt-right because it helped determine who to essentially weed out from the movement.

Posobiec and Cernovich, who have managed to be featured prominently in national news outlets in the last few months through a series of hoaxy antics and, in Cernovichs case, real reporting, want nothing to do with Spencers ilk either, especially after a highly publicized event in Washington, D.C., in which some individuals were caught on video giving a Nazi salute.

Posobiec was equally dismissive of the people attending Spencers event and said that their concurrent timing didnt diminish his crowd size.

Nah not our crowd, he said when asked about people potentially choosing Spencers event over his. Asked specifically what he thinks of Spencer, Posobiec said, Dont really follow him.

A masked demonstrator in a Donald Trump "Make America Great Again" hat wipes his brow as self proclaimed "White Nationalists", white supremacists and members of the "Alt-Right" gather for what they called a "Freedom of Speech" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. June 25, 2017

Posobiec said that at future rallies, hed like to invite Donald Trump Jr., Sheriff David Clarke, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and of course POTUS himself.

A small step toward that lofty dream arrived in the presence of failed Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart, who spoke at the Lafayette Park event on Sunday. He used the platform as a run-up to his potential entrance into a Senate race against Tim Kaine in 2018, who Stewart said on Sunday he would send to the curb.

No such politician spoke at Spencers event despite the fact that Stewart, who devoted a large portion of his campaign to preserving Confederate statues in Virginia, is no stranger to controversy.

Don Folden, the founder of an African-American history tour company (R) argues with a man named Justin from western New York state during a demonstration organized by self-proclaimed White Nationalists and members of the "Alt-Right" which they described as a "Freedom of Speech" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. June 25, 2017.

As both of the events winded down, both organizers and attendees seemed to think that they were on the right side of the moment; Spencer and his crowd focused on the preservation and prioritization of white identity and Posobiec and his allies focused on providing an alternative to the lying, fake news media while promoting Trumps agenda.

White Nationalist leader Richard Spencer (C) chants back at counter-protestors as self-proclaimed "White Nationalists" and "Alt-Right" supporters gather for what they called a "Freedom of Speech" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. June 25, 2017.

This is the just the beginning for us, Spencer said. I think it would be possible to have a rally on the mall for tens of thousands of people.

I want to have rallies all across the country, we are organizing and growing by leaps and bounds, Posobiec told The Daily Beast.

And sometimes, theyll just end up happening at the same exact time.

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WASHINGTON In Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the so-called "alt-right" held two competing rallies led by different factions fighting over ownership of the movement and its message.

At one rally were the media provocateurs and conspiracy theorists famous for interrupting Shakespeare plays and spreading anti-Democrat conspiracy theories, like Laura Loomer and Mike Cernovich. At the other were the hard-line nationalists like Richard Spencer who are sick of the fame-seeking, and want the group to get back to defending white identity and holding Trump accountable to his most far right base.

At that second rally, held at the Lincoln Memorial, top white nationalist leaders proclaimed the difference between the alt-right and what they termed the "alt-light." The first, they said, wants political change.The latter is just glomming onto the movement for fame.

Calling anyone a member of the "alt-right" is a minefield. The movement contains many factional ideologies, along with individuals who only espouse such beliefs as a means of causing upset. But for Spencer, one of the most visible leaders of the white nationalist bent of the alt-right movement, defining the alt right is simple: It's a movement that is building a home for white identity.

White nationalists mixed with trolls, militiamen and confederates in Washington D.C., on Sunday.

"White people are encouraged to be citizens they're encouraged to disintegrate into nothingness, or disintegrate into individualism or atomization," Spencer said before the rally. "The alt-right is really about being a part of a family, being a part of something bigger than one's individual self."

At the Lincoln Memorial "Freedom of Speech Rally," which drew over 300 attendees, the most common theme was grievance over what many felt was an assault on white males.

"When you hear the word 'diversity,' what does the word 'diversity' mean?" white nationalist blogger Mike Enoch asked the audience.

"Anti-white!" they shouted in response.

Speakers led chants of "You will not replace us" the "you" being people of color, and the "us" being whites and rally attendees were overheard trying to rope Lincoln Memorial tourists into discussions about declining white birth rates.

James Allsup, a right-wing YouTuber and member of the College Republicans who is careful about directly associating with the alt-right, had another vision of purpose for the rally attendees.

For Allsup, the "alt-light" conspiracy theorists and provocateurs like Cernovich are uncritical Trump hangers-on. The business of the right, he insisted, should be holding their president to task for his campaign pledges, like building a border wall or eliminating protections for children who enter the country as undocumented immigrants.

"When we see President Trump in office, it's our job to hold him accountable," Allsup said during the rally. "Since we were the ones who supported those positions, no one else will hold him accountable."

White nationalist Richard Spencer was the main attraction at the Lincoln Memorial rally.

A few blocks away near the White House, the group Allsup called the "alt-light" had its rally. Even with a little star-power from its speakers like Loomer and Jack Posobiec, who made news for interrupting a controversial performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar the rally didn't pull away enough attention from the better-attended alt-right rally, and had about half the attendance. There, Spencer held court surrounded by an ad hoc security detail made up of members of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa.

Though Spencer has spent the past week on Twitter tearing into the far-right media provocateurs who he called "losers," "freaks" and "liars," he didn't give them too much attention at the rally, writing them off to a crowd of reporters before the rally.

"They're utter cucks," Spencer said.

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The Anti-Defamation League, the nation's most prominent advocate against anti-Semitism, said it was 'deeply troubled' by rallies staged near in Washington D.C., Sunday by so-called "alt-right" groups.

The ADL argued the events were helping to bring white supremacist beliefs into the mainstream.

"White supremacy and hate, and those who exist in that orbit, need to be rejected. When white supremacists and their apologists feel their messages are getting mainstream attention and have an audience, that should raise alarm bells for all Americans across the political spectrum who reject hatred and bigotry," said ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt.

Alt-right is a catch-all term for certain conservative activist groups, in particular the people associated with the groups who have used racially-charged or xenophobic rhetoric. The groups tend to be supporters of President Trump's anti-immigration policies.

The ADL, which has long monitored extremist groups on the left and far right, said such "public rallies are increasingly common." The statement was not in reaction to anything said at the rallies. It was issued in advance of the events.

Two separate groups announced rallies for Sunday. Roger Stone, a longtime advisor to President Trump who had a falling out with the the president during the campaign, spokes remotely to a "Rally Against Political Violence" near the White House to condemn the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others during a June 14 baseball practice in northern Virginia.

A second event, called the "Freedom of Speech" rally, was held near the Lincoln Memorial and featured Richard Spencer, a highly controversial figure who is widely credited with coining the term alt-right.

Many of the people involved in Stone's event were set to participate in the Lincoln Memorial one, but decided to hold a different event once they learned of Spencer's involvement.

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