An Elementary School Teacher's Secret Life As A White Nationalist Writer
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An Elementary School Teacher’s Secret Life As A White Nationalist Writer
Benjamin Welton uses pen names to write racist articles. He's also a teacher, PhD student, and freelance writer for major media outlets. Now he's been ex...
huffpost.com
2:27 PM · May 26, 2021
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benjamin-welton-white-nationalist-elementary-school-teacher-writer_n_60ae5e89e4b0d45b753140fb
In 2017, a writer named Sinclair Jenkins published an essay for the white supremacist website American Renaissance titled “From Wide-Eyed Liberal to Race Realist,” which described a series of “political awakenings” that he had experienced.
Jenkins wrote that his radicalization began in the Navy, where it angered him to see “blacks” be mean to his fellow white sailors. Later, in graduate school, he grew disgusted over the “ingrained culture of anti-white hatred” in academia. “Also, once I began paying attention to the news, I started seeing why so many people in my hometown took a dim view of blacks,” wrote Jenkins, who noted that he grew up somewhere in Appalachia. “After Ferguson and Baltimore, I understood that pumping money into the ghetto would never fix things.” Later, he said, he discovered writers like John Derbyshire and Ann Coulter, who shared his distaste for immigrants, and websites like American Renaissance and VDare, which shared his firmly held belief in the “biological foundations to race,” and helped shape his white nationalist worldview.
Near the end of the article, Jenkins noted that he was a teacher, an audacious admission to make in a white supremacist publication.
But “Sinclair Jenkins,” HuffPost has now confirmed, is really a pseudonym for Benjamin Welton, a 33-year-old Boston University history PhD candidate who, until this week, taught English, social studies and computer science at Star Academy, an elementary school in Massachusetts. When HuffPost contacted the school for comment, Welton was put on leave, and was fired shortly before this article was published.
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To show my hand: I am the Spooky Nationalist’s Confederate in bayou and hellbilly retard with too education,” the post began. “I write as Elias Kingston (see:Ending Bigly). I write as Sinclair Jenkins (AmRen/book out soon from Antelope Hill). I write as Jake Bowyer (VDare).”
The Spooky Nationalist had slipped up: Announcing that all of these different aliases belonged to him was a clue that opened up new avenues to investigate his real offline identity.
The anti-fascists at the Anonymous Comrades Collective got to work. 
“Interestingly, when we researched the pen name ‘Jake Bowyer’ we found that the URL for the ‘Jake Bowyer’ Gravatar page displayed another name: Ben Welton,” the anti-fascists wrote in a blog post published Monday.
Gravatar is a service that creates “globally unique avatars,” according to its website, allowing users to use the same avatar across different internet platforms.
