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Mon Oct 17, 2016, 10:19 AM Oct 2016

Jesse Lee Peterson really goes off the deep end...

Peterson is a black (emphasis: black,) "minister" who is also a far-right writer and activist.

Bizarre: Black WND Columnist Endorses White Nationalists' Anti-Black Race-Baiting
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Jesse Lee Peterson is more concerned about white people than ever. He begins his Oct. 9 WorldNetDaily column by warning: "Warning to whites: Avoid black people. Your life may be at risk. Whites are under attack like no other time in history. It’s about to get worse."

The proximate cause this time is the new film "The Birth of a Nation," about the Nat Turner slave rebellion. Peterson likens the film to the original, century-old and very racist "Birth of a Nation" film, which sparked a resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, calling both "hate-inspired propaganda."

If it's not bizarre enough that Peterson is attacking his fellow African-Americans, he adds this:

It’s evil enough to stir black anger to new levels of violence against whites.

If you don’t already know about rampant black-on-white crime (rape, robbery, murder and atrocious assaults), check the research of Colin Flaherty, Heather Mac Donald and Jared Taylor.

Yep, he wrote that.

Flaherty, as we know, is a race-baiter who promoted a blanket description of blacks as violence-prone thugs -- a grossly inaccurate generalization Peterson appears to endorse.

Mac Donald is an author attached to the right-wing Manhattan Institute who has attacked the Black Lives Matter movement as a campaign based on lies and, like Flaherty, paints blacks as violence-prone criminals and effectively deserving of being shot by police.

Taylor, of course, is head of the unabashedly white nationalist American Renaissance. He's an unabashed racist; the Southern Poverty Law Center quotes him as saying, "Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears." It appears Peterson is totally down with this kind of "research" from Taylor.

Peterson interviewed Taylor in 2005 (available on the AmRen website). His pushback on Taylor's advocacy of racial separation is tepid at best, and he and he concurs with Taylor's view of black liberal activists like Jesse Jackson and that black activists "hate white folks." So it's probably not a surprise that he's moved so far right that he's apparently signing on to Taylor's white nationalist agenda.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=2361595

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Jesse Lee Peterson really goes off the deep end... (Original Post) Archae Oct 2016 OP
That guy is unbelievable Catherine Vincent Oct 2016 #1
Damn... Uncle Ruckus, live and in person... M0rpheus Oct 2016 #2
He has always been an Uncle Ruckus MrScorpio Oct 2016 #3

Catherine Vincent

(34,490 posts)
1. That guy is unbelievable
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 10:42 AM
Oct 2016

I don't get him and I don't want to. Ever since I watched a couple of his appearances on Fox News years ago, I vowed to never listen to that confused individual again.

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