What is White Power?

White Power is an empowering philosophy of White racial nationalism and ethnicity. It refers to a diverse range of philosophies from leftist National Socialism, to White Pride, to rightist White Supremacy. Perhaps the simplest imperative about what White Power stands for exists in the "14 words" coined by former Bruder Schweigen member, David Lane:

"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children."

Although it is possibly a response to black nationalist Stokely Carmichael's book _Black_Power_, the phrase "White Power" was a popular term coined by participants at a George Lincoln Rockwell rally in Marquedt Park, Illinois in 1967. Spontaneously the attendants started rallying behind the call for White Power. It has been a popular phrase since then and was the title of George Lincoln Rockwell's book _White_Power_.

Aryan is a term that many ancient Indo-European peoples called themselves. It means "good," "best," or "noble." The ancient Hindus called themselves Aryans and derivitives of this term are evident in the country-names of Erin (Ireland) and Iran (Aryan). Today, some people of the European branch of Indo-Europeans call themselves that as a unique indicator of who they are and what their racial ideals are.

ZOG (for Zionist Occupation Government) is a euphemism for those governments which purport to represent white people while actually subscribing to an anti-white agenda. These governments often put "Israel First," while seconding the interests and desires of racial and nationalist whites for the interests of multi-racial societies and world government.

No. Supremacy refers to an alleged right to rule over other races. Although some White Power people are White Supremacists, many are not. Those who are not supremacists are actually White nationalists or separatists and advocate for the formation of a White homeland in a manner which does not deny the human rights of non-whites.

There are many different viewpoints collected under the term White Power. A few of the philosophical viewpoints are:

Supremacists - Supremacist arguments state that the White race is inherently superior and therefore is justified in ruling over other peoples. They often state that Whites assuming power over all of the earth's inhabitants is doing them a favor since Whites are the only people superior enough to make good judgements.

National Socialists - based on Adolf Hitler's doctrine as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, the adherents of this viewpoint often don't see this as a "right-wing" cause but rather as a racially progressive left-wing movement. National Socialism is founded on several doctrines: nationalism, the long-view of history and racism. It adheres to the viewpoint of The Leader Principle whereby a people are best led by strong leaders rather than by their inherent weaknesses which democracy brings out.

Christian Identity - this religious doctrine believes that Whites are the true Israelites described in the bible. It adheres to a doctrine of two-creations in Genesis whereby God created all of the other animals and races and then created the Adamic (White) race. They cite the fact that Adam means "able to show blood in the face" which would refer uniquely to the White race. They also believe that Jesus's message has become corrupted because he did not come for all peoples, but as said in Matthew 15:24 "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

White Nationalists - this refers to a number of ideological viewpoints which view the White race as an ethnic nation which must have its own homeland in order to survive. Its adherents believe that the only state which can legitimately represent the White race is one which is purposely organized to represent it.

Separatists - this catch-all identifier applies to many people who are not ideological at all. They merely recognize that we Whites are a different people and that we must survive as a people. They advocate the separation of the races, usually with different homelands for the different races. Some separatists advocate "The Northwest Imperative" which calls for the formation of a White homeland in the Pacific Northwest.

Often, many of these viewpoints are expressed within a single group. The members of these groups bring differing ideas about what the goals of White Power should be, what programs can best attain its ideals, what a good White society is and how a White nation-state should be organized. But, despite these differences they are all agreed on one point: The White race must survive.

The word race derives from the Spanish word raza which means "line." It may also derive from the latin word "ratio." It refers to genetic lineage. A race is a lineal ethnic group which because of its genetic heritage, exhibits unique phenotypic features or patterns. However, despite these genetic features, race also refers to an ethnicity and an ethnic identity that is based on these features. As racists use the term, it is not equivalent to the biological word "race" which is merely a sub-breeding group of a species. Although as racists use the term a race is a sub-breeding group of the human species, it also refers to a set of group ideals and norms consistent with the maintenance of that ethnic group and an ethnic society.

Racism is the promotion of a race and its interests. It refers to a desire to maintain a unique ethnic identity closely bound to the physical characteristics that define that group. It also refers to a whole body of social norms which are consistent with maintaining that group and promoting a society which is consistent with racial ideals.

Race-mixing is the mixing of races, also known as miscegenation. The term "race-mixer" refers to those who advocate mixed-race societies as an ideal and those who engage in sexual relations with those of other races. Race-mixing is highly frowned upon by racists and race-mixers are often severely admonished.

In Pink Floyd's _The_Wall_ movie, there is a video segment sung to the tune "Up against the Wall," where Pink takes on the visage of a powerful leader. During this sequence, hundreds of skinheads march through the street and chase the "Pakis" (Pakistanis) out of England. Although the movie is largely opposed to that viewpoint, young skinheads were emboldened by the image of strength and came to call themselves Hammerskins. As these groups spread throughout the U.S. and Canada, they took on regional prefixes like: Western Hammerskins, Northern Hammerskins, Confederate Hammerskins and other names.

White Power advocates love their race. Because of that, they are strongly opposed to any attempts to harm it by means of loss of territory, loss of economic or political self-determination, loss of cultural identity, disenfranchisement or race mixing. In order to preserve their race and its interests, they are often willing to engage in hostile acts against perceived threats to it.

White Power advocates do have lives which are based on different principles and ideals from those of race-mixers.

The following are somewhat "objective" in their appraisal of White Power advocates:

Blood In the Face by James Ridgeway

The New Reich: Violent Extremism in unified Germany and beyond by Michael Schmidt

Skinheads shaved for battle: a cultural history of American Skinheads by Jack B. Moore

The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt

Is God a racist?: the right wing in Canada by Stanley R. Barrett

Hard Right: The New White Power in South Africa by Johann van Rooyen ISBN 1-85043-788-2

Armed and Dangerous: The rise of the survivalist right by James Coates

Brotherhood of Murder by Thomas Martineze with John Guinther

Free to Hate: The rise of the right in post-communist Eastern Europe by Paul Hockenos

Skinhead Streetgangs by Loren Christensen. Paladin Books ISBN 0-87364-756-4

Any ADL publication

"Mainstream" Hatred by Mira L. Boland, ADL in The Police Chief magazine, June 1992 (other articles can be found in that issue and in other issues).

Hitler's Offspring by Martin A. Lee in The Progressive, March 1993

Hatred Rising: The Sound of Jackboots in Europe and Russia by Derek Ingram in World Press Review February 1994

Inside South London's Nazi Headquarters in New Statesman and Society (British magazine) January 1993

Long Day's Journey Into White by Kathy Dobie, in The Village Voice April 28, 1992

Articles:

America's Changing Colors in Time magazine, 9 April 1990

Can American Democracy Survive? by Bruce D. Porter in Commentary November 1993

Race Unconsciousness and the White Male by Frederick R. Lynch in Society magazine Jan/Feb 1992

Seeds of Racial Explosion by Timur Kuran in Society magazine October 1993

The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau by Roy Beck in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994

The American Family Transformed by David A. Hamburg in Society magazine Jan/Feb 1993

Small is Beautiful by Robert J. Barro in The Wall Street Journal Oct. 11, 1991

Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America by Richard D. Alba

Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy by Joel Kotkin

Spirit of '69 Available from: S.T. Publishing, PO Box 12 Dunoon, Argyll PA23 7BQ, Scotland

Wider die Misstrauensgesselschaft, Irenaeus Eibel Eibelsfeldt, Pieper-Verlag

The Aryans by V. Gordon Childe. Copyright 1993 Barnes & Noble Books ISBN 0-8829-139-7

Organizing for Power and Empowerment by J.B. Mondros and S.M. Wilson ISBN 0-231-06719-4

National Vanguard Books, P.O. Box 330 Hillsboro WV 24946

NS Publications, Box 27486 Milwaukee WI 53227

Aryan Free Press Books P.O. Box 6853 Champaign Illinois 61826

Aryan Nations/Church of Jesus Christ Christian P.O. Box 362 Hayden, Idaho 83835

The Balance C/O Cause 1101 Post Oak Blvd. Suite 9497 Houston, TX 77056

Instauration Howard Allen Enterprises, Inc. Box 76 Cape Canaveral, Florida 32920 $35/year

The Jubilee [ A wonderful Christian Identity newspaper ] P.O. Box 310 Midpines, CA 95345

National Vanguard by National Alliance P.O. Box 330 Hillsboro WV 24946

New Order by NSDAP-AO P.O. Box 6414 Lincoln, Nebraska 68506

NS Kindred P.O. Box 256 N.S.J. Ca 95960

Plexus: A National Socialist Theoretical Journal by National Worker's League P.O. Box 642376 Omaha Ne 68164-8376

Remarks P.O. Box 234 Aurora, NY 13026-0234

Stormfront: Forecast for Tomorrow P.O. Box 6637 West Palm Beach, FL 33405

Up Front The Heritage Front P.O. 564 Station R Toronto, ON M4G 4E1 CANADA

WAR P.O. Box 65 Fallbrook Ca. 92088

The War Eagle P.O. Box 6881 Champaign Illinois 61826

Confederate Hammer Skins:

PO Box 741314 dallas, TX, 75374-1314
PO Box 460837 Garland, TX, 75046-0837
PO Box A0211 Oklahahoma City, OK, 73162
PO Box 772 Tulsa OK 74101
1926 HWY. 31 S. Ste.101 Birmingham, AL 35244
PO Box 88 Butler, TN, 37640
PO Box 670781 Marietta, Ga 30066-0130
661 Blanding Blvd. Ste. 329 Orange Park, Fl. 32073

PO Box 6773 East St. Paul, MN 55106 *Bound for Glory & Vanguard
PO Box 734 Midlothian, Il 60445 *Final Slution
PO Box 08-1371 Rochester, MI 48308 * Max Resist
PO Box 03, Kenosha WI 53141
PO Box 33 Germantown, WI 53022
PO Box 600 Stevens Point, WI 54481
PO Box 1845 Stow, OH 44224-0845
913 Bristol, IN 46507
3404 St Louis, MO 63143

PO Box 9441 Newark, DE 19714-9441 *Nordic Thunder
PO Box 273 Earlville, PA 19519
PO 21 Stewartstown, PA 17363
PO Box 410444 East Cambridge, MA 02141

34026 Lachine, Quebec H8S 4H4 *Ragnarok & Involved Patriots
46079 Co.P. Gal ies Chagnon, Levis, G6V-8S3
252 Winnipeg, Man R3C 2G9
6054 Station A, Toronto, On. M5W 1X4 *White Riot
265 Surrey, BC, V3T 4W8 *Odin's Law

Swiss Hammerskins: PO Box 656, 6014 Littau
German Hammerskins: PO Box 1133, 6830 Schwetzingen
British Hammerskins BM Box 1245 London WC1N 3XX
Charlemagne Hammerskins: BP 142, 94733 Nogent s/Marne Cedex, France
Exiled Charlemagne Hammerskins: c/o Northern Hammer Skins, St. Paul
Bohemia Hammerskins PO Box 70 Trutnov 4, 54102 Czech Republic
PO Box 49, Hronov 1, 59431
PO Box 8, Slapanice, 66451
PO 100, Novy Jicin, 74111

533, Moorabbin, Victoria 3189 *Fortress
186, Annandale, NSW, 2038

Afrikaner Resistance Movement

POS BUS 4118
Pretoria 0001
South Afrika

British National Party

P.O. Box 117
Welling Kent DA
163 DW

Ethnic Peoples Worldwide Fed.

CP2544 CH1002
Lausanne, Switzerland

The Heritage Front

P.O. 564 Station R
Toronto, ON M4G 4E1
Canada

For North American White Power music, contact:

Krowbar Records
P.O. Box 40383
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
70835-0383, USA

Nordic Wolfpack!
P.O. Box 8
13143 Monk, Piereefonds
Montreal, Quebec
H8Z 1T4 Canada

Phoenix Records
P.O. Box 898
Walnut, California
91788, USA

Resistance Records
P.O. Box 24700
Detroit, Michigan
48224, USA

Totenkopf Services
1040 S. Mount Vernon
Suite 123
Colton, CA
92324, USA

Rock-o-Rama Records
Kaiserstr. 119
50321 Bruehl
Germany

Renewal of Identity (R.I.D.)
P.O. Box 249
Derby DE21 9EG
England

Blood & Honour
B.M. Box 5608
London, WC1 3XX
England

Blood & Honor
P.O. Box 1234
Long Beach, CA
90801 USA

$3.00/issue US and Canada
$4.00/issue International
$18.00/6 issues US and Canada
$24.00/6 issues International

MZ (Moderne Zeiten)
Postfach 103035
40021 Duesseldorf
Germany

Rampage: A Skinhead Voice
P.O. Box 19
Coalville
Leicester LE67 1DS
England

Resistance
The Music Magazine of the True Alternative
P.O. Box 24700
Detroit, Michigan 48224 USA
$12.00/yr (4 issues)

WAR (White Aryan Resistance)
Fallbrook, California, USA
(619) 723-8996

Equal Rights for Whites (Canada)
(416) 699-4868

Euro-Canadian Action Line (Canada)
(416) 631-3545

Info Line for Shows & Events (Canada)
(416) 631-3927

Realm of Indiana (USA)
(317) 522-1215

Heritage Front (Canada)
(416) 693-2298

David Tate W/155209 Missouri State Prison P.O. Box 900 Jefferson City, MO 65102	Frank Silva #09993-016 B2 Room 422 P.O. Box PMB Atlanta, GA 30315
David Lane #12873-057 USP High PO Box 7000 Florence CO 81226	Bruce Pierce 04181-085 P.O. Box 1000 Marion, IL 62959
Randy Evans 09882-016 P.O. Box 1000 Marion, IL 62959	Gary Yarbrough #09883-016 US PEN. A-206 P.O. Box 1000 Leavenworth, KS 66048
Yorie Von Kahl 04565-059 Box 1000, J-3 Unit Lewisburg, PA 17837	Richard Scutari #34840-080 P.O. Box 1000 Marion, IL 62959

Kathy Ainsworth

Gordon Kahl

Died: 3 June 1983
Summary: A leader of the Posse Commitatus, Gordon Kahl was shot and immolated by the FBI.

Born: 16 January, 1949
Died: 8 December 1984
Summary: Founder of the Bruderschweigen (The Silent Brotherhood), sometimes called The Order. Bob Mathews fought for his racial nation until he was immolated by the FBI at a Whidbey Island shootout.

Died: 21 August 1992
Summary: 14-year old Samual was shot in the back by Feds who were trespassing on his father's property.

Died: 4 June 1983
Summary: Shot in the face by Fed sniper Lon Haruchi while holding her baby.

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