Supremacists Split After Race AllegationConsidering this from a rhetorical angle one can see the curious interplay between bureaucracy and the body. That a white supremacist would do a background check of sorts on his business partner to verify his racial identity (and purity), and that such a thing could be gleaned from a birth certificate demonstrates the curious nature of race in the world.
Fri Feb 4, 9:36 PM ET Strange News - AP
SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. - A high-profile white supremacist record company appears to have gone out of business after one co-owner accused the other of having a Hispanic mother.
Panzerfaust was behind Project Schoolyard USA, which last year distributed thousands of free compact discs to teenagers across the country, particularly in Minnesota.
The company is now appears dormant, with its Web address directing views to another white power site called "Free Your Mind." No working telephone number for the Panzerfaust could be found Friday.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, reports that co-owners Byron Calvert, 33, and Anthony A. Pierpont, 38, had a falling out after Calvert saw a copy of Pierpont's birth certificate.
The document, which is posted on the center's Web site, indicates that Pierpont's mother was named Maria Marcola del Prado and she was born in Mexico. Also, Calvert claimed in an online posting that Pierpont had sex with Thai prostitutes.
As a result, and Pierpont's refusal to take a DNA test, Calvert wrote last month that he would quit the company and so would its webmaster. The center reports that influential hate groups Hammerskin Nation and Volksfront also denounced Pierpont.
The Free Your Mind site said that any business done with Pierpont should be considered "an act of treason."
Race doesn't exist. Karl Linnaeus made it up. He also believed in troglodytes, a race of sub-human night-dwellers with light sensitivity and other such attributes.
Yet, so many legitimate discourses in the world still support a notion of race: census taking, social science surveys, birth certificates, national identity.
The issue that ruins racism as a constitutive discourse is that it's ultimately built upon an absurd foundation. Racialism and racism rest upon the presumption that that blood and body constitute the person and that the flesh does not lie. Yet the deeper you go into the flesh the more absurd a picture you get. Instead of more definitive answers, you muddy the concept of race and any notion of its integrity. Based upon genomic comparison alone the part that makes us human as opposed to plant or snail is so miniscule. Secondly, a genetic census of one person's body would reveal that most of the genetic material therein isn't at all human. Microbes off all types residing in and on the body quickly crowd out human cells at a ratio of 1.5 foreign cells to 1 human cells.
Racists and just about everyone in the world have drawn a line of demarcation that to them is as plain a fact as the sun in the sky: race exists. Differences exist, differences we see. Skin color, skull shape, and stature represent such a miniscule measure of difference I wonder why we bother. Overwhelming evidence about the material nature of our inheritance points to our likeness with all living things.
While we're on the topic of race, let's talk about the unicorn who rides down a rainbow to administer IQ tests.
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