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White Supremacist Brings Racist Filmmaker to Texas A&M

In recent years, globetrotting white supremacist financier and organizer Preston Wiginton has appeared at racist skinhead gatherings (he won a 鈥渟trongest skinhead鈥 contest at Hammerfest in 2005); co-sponsored lectures with hate groups like the and the ; rallied racist skinheads in Russia (where he lives part of the year in an apartment rented from ex-Klan boss David Duke); and to address a festival put on by the neo-fascist British National Party.

He鈥檚 a busy guy on the white supremacist circuit, so it鈥檚 no surprise that he鈥檚 organized yet another event. This time, Wiginton has called in racist filmmaker Craig Bodeker to show his film, , on the Texas A&M campus on March 20.

Bodeker is no slouch in white nationalist circles, either. His film, released as a DVD in 2008, is a 58-minute attempt to prove the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented to oppress whites. To do that, he interviewed people he found through a Craigslist ad (ambiguously titled 鈥淓nding Racism Now鈥) and on a street corner in Denver, where he lives. When the people he interviews claim they see racism every day but don鈥檛 cite strong examples, Bodeker thus feels he can claim that racism doesn鈥檛 exist. He also asserts in the film that Latinos are deliberately taking away whites鈥 majority status, and he attempts to get his subjects to admit that black people commit more crime than white.

In spite of that, Bodeker continues to claim he鈥檚 not the one who鈥檚 racist, even though he has attended white nationalist events and given interviews to white nationalist media outlets, including , whose guests have included David Duke, neo-Nazi April Gaede, white nationalist Jared Taylor and anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald.

Bodeker鈥檚 latest project is a group called the National Citizens League (NCL), apparently launched in 2012. The flyer for his upcoming Texas A&M appearance calls him the group鈥檚 founder. The NCL鈥檚 mission statement claims that its purpose is to increase public awareness about the efforts of 鈥渆stablished media鈥 and 鈥渂ad government鈥 to act against 鈥渙ur national interests鈥 and how citizens can use visual media to 鈥渇ight back.鈥 The site serves as a platform for Bodeker鈥檚 film (you can watch it there), but nothing new has been posted since June of last year, according to the site archive.

The site also includes a video of Bodeker introducing the group in his affable way and some postings of videos of Bodeker鈥檚 鈥淩ace Report.鈥 A visit to the NCL鈥檚 Facebook page reveals a lot more. There, you鈥檒l see recent posts defending members of the Towson White Student Union (listed as a hate group by 澳彩开奖) , a premier gathering of conservatives each year, with this description: 鈥淕overnmedia in Panic 鈥 Someone Let A White American Address OUR INTERESTS AT CPAC!鈥

Other Facebook posts by the currently unknown NCL administrator include some that call non-white immigrants 鈥渋nvaders.鈥 Another wants 鈥淕overnmedia鈥 to 鈥淭ell The Truth About 鈥楧iversity鈥欌 (it鈥檚 bad). Another asks 鈥淲hy are Republicans so afraid of 鈥榓ppreciating鈥 AMERICA鈥橲 MAJORITY, that鈥檚, well you, know, WHITE鈥?鈥 Still another seems to suggest that there鈥檚 some kind of 鈥渆thnic cleansing鈥 of whites from America and another asks anyone to name one benefit that Muslims bring to white countries. In another anti-Muslim post, the NCL administrator says that 鈥淪wedes Are Now Realizing They Were Wrong To Allow Muslim Immigration 鈥 When Will the Rest of the West...?鈥 Preston Wiginton posted a response to that one, asking why Swedish men weren鈥檛 standing up for their women.

That鈥檚 par for Bodeker鈥檚 course: He has also on videos that other users have uploaded to YouTube. As user 鈥淐raigbe,鈥 he has referred to black people as 鈥渕onkeys,鈥 used the anti-gay slur 鈥渇--,鈥 and suggested that resigned black White House adviser Van Jones should be lynched.

For a man who claims not to be racist, he spends a lot of time proving otherwise. This week at Texas A&M will no doubt be more of the same.

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