商品簡介
The Creativity movement posits that the white race is nature's most gifted creation. "Creators espouse "racial loyalty" and seek to unite the white race in a single global community devoid of all other races. For this objective to be achieved, certain measures are advanced to enhance the health and survival of white people as a distinct racial group.
Throughout its turbulent history, the Creativity movement has attracted considerable notoriety. Many of the violence-prone Creators were not church renegades but members in good standing. Under the leadership of Matthew Hale during the late 1990s and early 2000s, the World Church of the Creator was at the center of several free speech controversies that strained communities and divided legal scholars. Over the weekend of July 4, 1999, Benjamin "August" Smith went on a three-day rampage in Illinois and Indiana, attacking Asians, Orthodox Jews, and African Americans. He left two dead and nine wounded, and then committed suicide. As a former member - conveniently resigning the day before the shootings - of the World Church of the Creator (now officially known as the Creativity Movement), Smith was praised by the leader of the church as "Creator of the Year" for bringing attention to their existence and radical beliefs.
Smith's rampage was the first many Americans had heard of this small, previously obscure organization. In this comprehensive history of the Creativity Movement, one of the most radical organizations in the history of the American far right, George Michael reminds us that some of the most dangerous radical elements in the United States are home grown.
作者簡介
George Michael is an associate professor of political science at the University of Virginia's College at Wise.
