| MARCI A. HAMILTON | APR 17, 2014 12:01 AM |
When a man shot up a Jewish community center and nursing home in Overland Park, Kansas, last week, it did not take long to figure out he was a white supremacist who is viciously anti-Semitic. Jewish entities were on alert, because of the unusual confluence of Easter, Passover, and Hitler’s birthday (April 20) this year. His name is Frazier Glenn Miller and he has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather, and with murder in the death of a woman. He is the epitome of evil.To be honest, I don’t care what his name is, because what is far more important is that Americans understand he is not some lone gunman who happened to lose it one day. He is part of a movement of like-minded believers who hold virulent, white supremacist, anti-Semitic, racist, and misogynist views in the United States. Some, like him, pair those beliefs with violent intentions and actions.
The white supremacist movement is evident in various groups catalogued by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which performs a critically needed public service by tracking hate groups across the United States. These believers are not shy. For example, some have been trying to overtake a town in North Dakota. Not all white supremacists share the same religious source for their beliefs, however.
