Author, civil rights activist and Baptist minister Will Campbell is friend to Klansmen, whores and the hopeless —but he rejects the “soul molesters” of the Southern Baptist Convention
You, sir, have just been served.Trying to find cohesive nuggets in the dung pile that is Phil Valentine's writing is a thankless job. Fortunately for Pith, this week Southern Beale did the dirty work for us a full two days before Valentine's usual Sunday editorial even ran.Predictably, Valentine's 800 words focused mainly on the Tea Parties, last week's national orgy of vacuous dissent. But he also took time to touch on a controversial report from the Department of Homeland Security, documenting
Vanderbilt Professor Carol SwainMonday's edition of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, titled "Is Right-Wing Extremism on the Rise?," featured a segment with Carol Swain, a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University. Swain was the subject of "A Woman Apart," a 2008 Scene cover story by P.J. Tobia that explored her unusual journey from growing up poor and black to becoming a respected academic and a conservative pundit.
In her 2002 book The New White Nationalism in
It looks like our favorite weirdos are at it againBET is reporting that white supremacists are leaf-letting at least one largely black neighborhood in Greeneville:People who live in a predominately black northeast Tennessee neighborhood say the Ku Klux Klan is trying to force them out.
They point to the flood of flyers from the white supremacist
organization blanketing the lawns of Greeneville's Meadowlark
Subdivision. One of the flyers is titled "Wake Up White America &
Take A Stand"; an
Kyle Swenson over at the City Paper has the story about how Sheriff Daron Hall was mere days away from speaking to yet another white supremacist organization, before immigration advocates made him aware of the history--the easily Google-able history--of said organization, thus causing him to cancel.
Sincerely, people of Nashville, how does this happen? Is Sheriff Hall living some kind of Death to Smoochy nightmare? Is there no one in his office who knows how to work the internet? Has he beco
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