stormfront forum

As I was browsing through stormfront to find a blog that related to my specific topic I stumbled upon a forum that had a video attached to it. I saw that it was from ESPN and it instantly made me think of the ESPN news story we watched in class. I have attached the video below.

     

I have noticed many times as well as the discussions we have has in class that white nationalists have a big issue with the media in general but specifically ESPN. Since they feel that the media is run by the Jewish population they feel that ESPN is deliberately making false news stories that are uplifting for the black community and thus causing the white population to either feel guilty or give respect to the black population. From what I have read on this video's comment section the white supremacists feel that this is taking another thing away from them and that everyone is disrespecting the accomplishments of the white man. As I see it and I'm sure most of the people in this class would agree this is just uncovering another interesting part of history but to the white nationalists it is just another fictitious tale about the achievements of the black man.  As I read through the first few blog posts for this video and even the posts that were on the YouTube website there were many people saying that this story was fabricated and kept referencing that there is no "ice" in Africa. I am not sure if they missed the part of the story that said these were American born black people that had escaped the south and made their way north and on up to Canada or not but it is pretty closed minded to actually believe that the CHL isn't at least partly responsible for modernizing the game of hockey. Many also made reference to the NFL and NBA and how they are black dominated sports and that the NHL is the only sport that "they have left". Since the sport is predominately white they can't believe that African Americans helped to mold the sport. In addition to the bloggers on stormfront questioning the validity of the story and the book "Black Ice" some posters also call out the writers for being Jewish and have no evidence to back it up even if it were true. It is interesting that most bloggers say that they didn't think any black people lived in Nova Scotia it's as if they just refuse to accept history and would rather rewrite it in their own one sided ways. White Nationalists would rather deny the fact that other races helped to form a sport instead of enjoying the fact that it exists and that it is more entertaining because of everyone that has contributed to it.       

History

We can date white nationalism back many generations even centuries, however to find a history on the media pertaining to white nationalism is much more difficult being how broad the subject is. I think the most logical starting place to explore is the movie titled "Birth of a Nation". The filming of this extremely controversial film was started in 1914 and used many innovative filming and musical techniques to make the film more entertaining then most films before it. In 1915 the silent film debuted and was a huge success as it followed the life of two families throughout the civil war and reconstruction period in American History and probably most famously it dramatized the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It was also the first film to be shown in the white house and President Woodrow Wilson was supposedly quoted as saying, "... like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." Some have argued that this is not an accurate quote of President Wilson however this was a common thought throughout white America. So why were President Wilson's quote and the movie in general so controversial? The movie featured the KKK as a heroic force saving white women from the grasp of the "evil" black man (the black actors in the movie were actually white men in face paint). The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which was founded in 1909, recognized the inaccuracies in the film and protested its release in many different locations. The film tricked the general public into fearing the black race, which led to more and more violence. The power of the media had taken hold and just as it does today convinces the general public of stories that aren’t necessarily accurate. The key to most of the medias power is in the presentation of the material. Lets think about this in terms of what we see on TV today. Many white nationalists believe that MTV, BET, VH1…etc are brainwashing the white youth and presenting blacks and other races in a way that convinces white children to imitate them. These channels are very entertaining and “cool” for the youth of America to watch and discuss. The way a white nationalists thinks would then have them justify that the black man is the problem for drug addiction and violence in the community and sadly this tends to lead to violence.  This film was groundbreaking technologically speaking and since the film was visually appealing a lot of the inaccuracies were overlooked. To this day the KKK use the film as a recruiting tool for young white males. The film spawned a sequel a year later and a remake many years later. I think we can credit this film with inspiring later forms of white nationalist media such as stormfront.org a white nationalist blog and a white nationalist version of YouTube. The media in general is a very powerful tool for the white nationalist movement with its power to help recruit and falsely educate the white youth.

I have attached a short trailer of the movie.

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