black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6) (08/06/85)
>NPR did a long feature on Identity Christians last week, and >they interviewed a number of KKK and Nazi members. One of the actualities >(recorded quotations) was attributed to one "Imperial Wizard Don Black". > >I don't want to libel Mr. Black by claiming this was him, but >the coincidence makes it seem very likely. > >DON BLACK: WAS THIS YOU? [Larry Kolodney] Sorry to disappoint you, but no, it wasn't. I deliberately avoid the Klan and the American Nazi Party, among others, like the plague. Both are heavily infiltrated with federal and state under- cover agents---I have that from a former Virginia state police officer. I have no sympathies with people who blow up churches or advocate the torching of synagogues. Just because I don't happen to socialize with certain groups doesn't mean I advocate doing them in. My religious affilliation happens to be with the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. I also happen to hold a belief in Christian Identity, which traces the history of the Israelites from their dispersion in biblical times to the present. Now, if a belief in Christian Identity automatically makes me a Nazi, it follows by the same line of reasoning that all Jews are members of the Jewish Defense League, right? And likewise, all Russians are Communists. In the future, try to keep your religious questions over on net.religion or net.twilight_zone, where they belong. --Don Black