Why Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist Groups

Patriot Prayer’s leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys. Is the future of hate multicultural?



PORTLAND, Oregon—Outfitted in a flak jacket and fighting gloves, Enrique Tarrio was one of dozens of black, Latino, and Asian men who marched alongside white supremacists in Portland on Aug. 4.

Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, is president of the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys, who call themselves “Western chauvinists,” and “regularly spout white-nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Last month, prior to the Patriot Prayer rally he attended in Portland, Tarrio was picturedwith other far-right activists making a white-power hand sign. Last year, he and other Proud Boys traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Unite the Right rally that ended with a neo-Nazi allegedly killing an anti-fascist protester.

Tarrio and other people of color at the far-right rallies claim institutional racism no longer exists in America. In their view, blacks are to blame for any lingering inequality because they are dependent on welfare, lack strong leadership, and believe Democrats who tell them “You’re always going to be broke. You’re not going to make it in society because of institutional racism,” as one mixed-race man put it.

If racism doesn’t exist, I ask Tarrio, how would he explain the disproportionate killing of young black men by police? “Hip-hop culture,” he says. It “glorifies that lifestyle… of selling drugs, shooting up.” Because of that, “Obviously you’re going to have higher crime rates. Obviously you’re going to have more police presence and more confrontations.” (Police kill black males aged 15 to 34 at nine times the rate of the general population.)

Elysa Sanchez, who is black and Puerto Rican, attended the “Liberty or Death Rally Against Left-Wing Violence” in Seattle on Aug. 18, joining about 20 militiamen open-carrying handguns and semi-automatic rifles.

Sanchez says, “If black people are committing more murders, more robberies, more thefts, more violent crime, that’s why you would see more black men having encounters with the police.”

Also in Seattle, Franky Price, who said he is “black and white,”wore a T-shirt reading, “It’s okay to be white.”



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Why are all these young men of color so racist?

Trump should investigate.

Could the western world be the best world?

Love to hear comments.

 

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If one listens to the message of Patriot Prayer, it is more of a Christian Nationalism message.

It isn't so racist as it is a conformist ideology. They seem to have a profound hatred of liberals. That is more of a Christian viewpoint than a racist one. After all, liberals, just by existing, call into question, everything Christian Nationalists believe in.

Notice in the article referenced in the OP, only about 20 showed up at a rally to protest "left wing violence". No one cared.

Here in the, Pacific Northwest, non-belief sits at around 44%. Church attendance is very low. We are one of the most liberal parts of America.

The Patriot Prayer represent those who find their beliefs nullified by the advances of society. Kind of like how churches have become more right-wing as their congregations have dwindled. It must hurt, to find one's self on the wrong side of history, fighting a war one can not win.

 

Why Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist Groups

The title of this article literally makes no sense. That article didn't explain how exactly this group is a "White-Supremacist" group. I can only conclude that Daily Beast writers are incredibly stupid.

 

may the most superior argument, always win.

 

I dont think they are white supremacists.

I think they are pro western values though.