If you read a recent article in the Herald carefully there is never any mention by name of any white supremacy group, a specific series of white supremacy attacks by incidents and location, the number of white supremacy groups in America, any organization public or private, other than the ADL, that is quoted concerning white supremacy.
Believe it or not the best source on the subject of white supremacy is the Southern Poverty Law Center. When you look at their recitation on white supremacy groups the information is eye opening. Most of the groups have memberships of less than a hundred.
If you look at the history of America’s largest identifiable white supremacy group, you will see that the Ku Klux Klan membership number reached its peak in the mid 1920s at over 4 million members. Currently the Klan membership is estimated to be just over 6,000 – 6,000 in a nation of 375 million people.
So we read in your newspaper and read, see and hear in other media outlets about white supremacy. But when you dig into the hearing, seeing and reading about white supremacy groups … you come up dry. No names, no numbers just blind repetition of a totally unsubstantiated narrative.
It’s time for seasoned journalists, publishers and influencers to begin leading the move away from politics and sensationalism to responsible journalism. Let the “facts,” not assumptions, lead us to the appropriate conclusions whatever they may be.
John Mathieu, Former Reporter
WBCB Levittown, Pa.
WHWH Princeton, NJ.
WCBS Radio New York
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