White Power and American Neoliberal Culture by Ventura Patricia;Chan Edward K.;

Author:Ventura, Patricia;Chan, Edward K.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

During my high school days, I became racially aware as I noticed the vast differences between Whites and [n-----s]. I realized that I preferred my own Race while abhorring the obnoxious behavior and stupidity of the inferior blacks. My high school was mostly White but there was a large population of blacks so that I could see first hand that the notion of equality was simply a fairy tale. Being in honor and AP classes, I saw first hand the superiority of the White Race as my classes were overwhelmingly White.28

Although this anecdotal passage disregards the structural and institutional racism that affects educational demographics, the sentiment can easily be reified in the experience of other, and even less extreme, white people. Molyneaux goes on to describe his embrace of neo-Nazism along with acceptance of the belief in a Jewish conspiracy and his indoctrination into the WCOTC.

In his history of the WCOTC, political scientist George Michael explains that Klassen led far-right and white racist organizations away from Christianity toward a self-described “theology” according to which the white race is destined to take over the entire world and eliminate all Jewish people and “mud people” (i.e., nonwhites).29 In The White Man’s Bible, originally published in 1981, Ben Klassen lays out four dimensions of Creativity in its practice of “Salubrious Living” encapsulated in the saying “a Sound Mind in a Sound Body in a Sound Society in a Sound Environment.” This program includes what is essentially a vegan diet, regular exercise, interaction with “our White Racial Comrades,” “healthy expression of our sexual instincts,” rejection of medicinal drugs, and fasting.30 This salubrious lifestyle becomes a refrain in Molyneaux’s book.

For Creators, the racial identity of whiteness supersedes national identities, and the WCOTC provides the only means to unify the white race against its enemies. The group’s “Sixteen Commandments” requires whites to “assure and secure for all time the existence of the White Race upon the face of this planet” (echoing Lane’s “14 Words”), “populate the lands of this earth with White people exclusively,” treat “the inferior colored races [as] our deadly enemies” (especially Jewish people), and, central to our argument here, “honor, protect and venerate the sanctity of the family unit.”31 Once again, hegemonic neoliberalism’s fundamental social unit, which coincides with white power advocates’ emphasis on reproducing the white race, and tribal loyalty are key to the ideology. Klassen was no stranger to others espousing similar white power ideologies, including Pierce and Covington, both of whom he communicated with despite antagonism with each.32 Several acts of deadly violence have been attributed to terrorists (or would-be terrorists) influenced by the WCOTC, including various murder sprees and plans to assassinate high-profile Black leaders including Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and even Public Enemy’s Chuck D and N.W.A.’s Eazy-E33—all in the name of “accelerating” the race war, as we see with other white power ideologues and terrorists. And although the WCOTC was and remains a fairly small-scale fringe movement and is currently fragmented, “it has had a disproportionate influence on the broader racialist movement,”34 perhaps most famously with the term RaHoWa.

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