The co-founder of White Lives Matter claimed society is promoting “white genocide” and bizarrely bashed everyone from Beyoncé to Caitlyn Jenner to the “filthy” Miley Cyrus, but she swears her white supremacist club isn’t a hate group.
Tennessee native Rebecca Barnette defended her WLM movement with a rambling statement days after Southern Poverty Law Center announced its plans to add the organization to its list of hate groups.
“WLM is not a hate-group but rather a celebration of the white race,” the statement, released to Fox 17 in Nashville, began.
Barnette said white people face a plethora of issues, “illegal immigration, healthcare, housing, welfare, employment, education, social security, our children, refugees” and claimed her group gives a “united voice” to the white race. Homosexuality, “mix relationships” and diversity are especially damaging to white culture, she wrote.
“There are ways we as citizens and owners of our fate can take a stand against these plagues on our people promoting white genocide,” she said in the statement.
Then Barnette went off the rails, and started attacking celebrities of every race.
| Rebecca Barnettem, one of the leaders of the White Lives Matter movement, released a bizarre statement defending her group. |
“Look at the influences of today’s society on our youth,” she wrote. “MTV’s shows glorifying teen pregnancy, mixed couples, drug abuse; Miley Cyrus and her filth.”
“Our nation’s heroes were once veterans who fought for our freedoms, our presidents who loved and cared about our great nation…now its trash and vulgarity spread by the likes of Bruce Jenner and the Kardashians, Beyoncé and Jay Z,” she wrote, using the name Jenner used before she came out as transgender last year.
Barnette insisted that White Lives Matter is simply a meeting place for like-minded people who want to protect the white race.
“Once you have opened your eyes to what is happening to your race and nation it should stir you to find other like-minded people near you to put together groups,” she wrote.
It’s doubtful that the hate-spewing statement will convince the Southern Poverty Law Center to take the group off its hate group watch list.
“The ideology behind it, the racist leaders, everything about it is racist,” Heidi Beirich, Director of Intelligence Project at SPLC, said last week as she announced the new designation.
Currently, the center says 892 hate groups are active in the country.