And here I thought the worst part of the media attention over the murders of Bryan Harvey and his family in their homes on New Year's Day, was the news-channel hype and Court-TV speculation on whodunit. I think the last thing Richmonders want to see is MSNBC going Holloway on the case.
Since the arrests, worse has apparently happened. After 10 days of positive but relatively quiet commentary on my Harvey lyrical retrospective, the increased traffic from the murder story began to ebb...until this morning, when it spiked again. And there were several new comments, from (apparently) different people. Where were they coming from?
Here. Are we expected to believe that in an effort to save himself, he tried to appease them by disavowing his heritage via House of Freaks music?
We will never know to what extent, if any, the "hate Whitey" attitude prevailing in the media fueled the rage of the killers, but we do know that Bryan Harvey's evocation of White racial guilt in one of his songs -- "White Folks' Blood" -- didn't help him or his wife or children when the animals got out their knives.
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That tinyurl comes right back to Also Also. The premise appears to be that if the killers weren't drawn to their spree by media egging on their hatred, certainly their victims' revulsion towards Jim Crow and Klan activities was unproductive when facing the supposed backlash.
But the killers had to be on a race-based spree in the first place for this entire scenario to be even remotely relevant, and no evidence of that yet exists. This wasn't a serial killing, in which the suspect selects his victims with a purpose, usually in some kind of pattern. This was a spree, in which crime is essentially the goal and victims tend to come to it by virtue of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But what makes this line of racial pursuit truly ridiculous are the other people allegedly killed by the suspects: Ashley Baskerville, her mother Mary Baskerville Tucker, and her stepfather Purcyell Tucker. They are, to steal the style, Black. So uh, you racialists--is this Black Guilt? Was the Hate Whitey media pushing them to kill three black people during the same spree? Did the color of their skin help them?
At this point the Vanguardians will simply point to the scattershot selection of statistics cited in their article, designed to create a eugenically-based theory of crime: black folks are just more violent. They can't help it, but they also take special unconscious pleasure in offing white people they come across in the midst of reflexively killing their own friends and families. Yeah, gotcha.
Sorry to bring up this whole little trip back to the 1930s, but this kind of absurd, paranoic and desperate attempt to make everything about the evils of miscegenation and integration is something that needs to be repeatedly exposed for the ignorant hatred that it is. One of the more laughable ironies is that for all the complaining that blacks and the media have to make everything about race, for these nuts it's literally true: no matter what, it all goes back to today's impurity of the races. Which always made me wonder--if it's black blood that's bad, doesn't mixing dilute it? So the answer is to so thoroughly mix it that nobody's got enough to make them violent, right? Yeah, I thought not.
To close, this kind of supremacist ranting always reminds me of Homer Stokes, the "Concerned Citizen" candidate in the Coen brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?:
Homer Stokes is convinced not only that the Boys are black, but also that their fans' enthusiastic reception is based on ignorance of this fact. He hurries to shut down this "miscegenated" performance, and an-nounces, "These boys is not white!" The crowd starts rumbling at this disruption, but he, confident of his "constitchency," blathers on.
Gratifyingly, Stokes' fear that racial intermixing will rock the racist social order turns out to be well-founded: his constitchency literally rides him out of the hall on a rail to insure that the band finishes their song.
Let the band play on!
Oh, last thing. Lest you believe that some nationwide force of haters were targeting this story and my site, check out the "join up" page:
National Vanguard is being organized under the direction of members of the National Alliance Executive Committee and prominent National Alliance leaders, and we expect that our Board of Directors will be announced soon. Kevin Alfred Strom is acting as trustee for the Board and membership at this time.
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"being organized..."
--TJ
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