Why I'm Not All That Concerned About Volksfront and the Hammerskins

Professor Black Woman made a post on her blog with a letter from a friend of hers in Portland that tried to post on the Sam Adams blog about the name change of a local street to "Ceasar Chavez," but for some reason, it wouldn't let her. Click here to read the whole post:

When I left the event, two things happened to conretize my own sense of being unsafe in a neighborhood where I have worked, shopped, and lived. First, I was literally almost knocked down by an angry white man walking from the meeting, and when I cried out, he said nothing despite being a publicly recognized figure in the community. Outside I was surrounded by anti-change supporters who were trying to pick a fight. Had I not had the misfortune of encountering hate groups whose tactics are to get you to throw the first punch in portland before I am sure that their might have been more to worry about. As it was, I simply smiled at my would be attackers and thanked them for all of the fight inducing behavior they were engaging in. Inside, I was terrified and reaching for both my cellphone camera and my mace. I told others about this event later and they all had similar stories - worse some of the potential victims were youth.

This, folks, is why the Volksfront and Hammerskins don't bother me all that much. I know that there are millions upon millions (add even more since 9-11) that are just waiting and ready to start another Nazi style mass murder of various non-white folks. Volksfront and Hammerskins are at least honest. They were easily found and shut down. You can't and doubtfully ever will shut down the institutional racism that motivates actions like the above and actions like the Nazi's took in the '30's and '40's, let alone all U.S. based wars like Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, etc. This is the shit that allows the murders of millions by the U.S. imperialist government and wants to bring that plague of death home to the non-white races here, in the occupied territories currently known as the United States. These are the folks you have to watch out for. These are the folks that need to be changed that NEVER will. You'll have a better chance at changing the hearts of Volksfront and Hammerskins than you EVER will those institutionally racist fucks that are a spoke in the wheel of the constant genocides going on that allow them to live under such privileged conditions.

With that, this: