White Supremacist Brings Racist Filmmaker to Texas A&M
In recent years, globetrotting white supremacist financier and organizer Preston Wiginton has appeared at racist skinhead gatherings (he won a âstrongest skinheadâ contest at Hammerfest in 2005); co-sponsored lectures with hate groups like the and the ; rallied racist skinheads in Russia (where he lives part of the year in an apartment rented from ex-Klan boss David Duke); and to address a festival put on by the neo-fascist British National Party.
Heâs a busy guy on the white supremacist circuit, so itâs no surprise that heâs organized yet another event. This time, Wiginton has called in racist filmmaker Craig Bodeker to show his film, , on the Texas A&M campus on March 20.
Bodeker is no slouch in white nationalist circles, either. His film, released as a DVD in 2008, is a 58-minute attempt to prove the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented to oppress whites. To do that, he interviewed people he found through a Craigslist ad (ambiguously titled âEnding Racism Nowâ) and on a street corner in Denver, where he lives. When the people he interviews claim they see racism every day but donât cite strong examples, Bodeker thus feels he can claim that racism doesnât exist. He also asserts in the film that Latinos are deliberately taking away whitesâ majority status, and he attempts to get his subjects to admit that black people commit more crime than white.
In spite of that, Bodeker continues to claim heâs not the one whoâs racist, even though he has attended white nationalist events and given interviews to white nationalist media outlets, including , whose guests have included David Duke, neo-Nazi April Gaede, white nationalist Jared Taylor and anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald.
Bodekerâs latest project is a group called the National Citizens League (NCL), apparently launched in 2012. The flyer for his upcoming Texas A&M appearance calls him the groupâs founder. The NCLâs mission statement claims that its purpose is to increase public awareness about the efforts of âestablished mediaâ and âbad governmentâ to act against âour national interestsâ and how citizens can use visual media to âfight back.â The site serves as a platform for Bodekerâs film (you can watch it there), but nothing new has been posted since June of last year, according to the site archive.
The site also includes a video of Bodeker introducing the group in his affable way and some postings of videos of Bodekerâs âRace Report.â A visit to the NCLâs Facebook page reveals a lot more. There, youâll see recent posts defending members of the Towson White Student Union (listed as a hate group by ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝) , a premier gathering of conservatives each year, with this description: âGovernmedia in Panic â Someone Let A White American Address OUR INTERESTS AT CPAC!â
Other Facebook posts by the currently unknown NCL administrator include some that call non-white immigrants âinvaders.â Another wants âGovernmediaâ to âTell The Truth About âDiversityââ (itâs bad). Another asks âWhy are Republicans so afraid of âappreciatingâ AMERICAâS MAJORITY, thatâs, well you, know, WHITEâŚ?â Still another seems to suggest that thereâs some kind of âethnic cleansingâ of whites from America and another asks anyone to name one benefit that Muslims bring to white countries. In another anti-Muslim post, the NCL administrator says that âSwedes Are Now Realizing They Were Wrong To Allow Muslim Immigration â When Will the Rest of the West...?â Preston Wiginton posted a response to that one, asking why Swedish men werenât standing up for their women.
Thatâs par for Bodekerâs course: He has also on videos that other users have uploaded to YouTube. As user âCraigbe,â he has referred to black people as âmonkeys,â used the anti-gay slur âf--,â and suggested that resigned black White House adviser Van Jones should be lynched.
For a man who claims not to be racist, he spends a lot of time proving otherwise. This week at Texas A&M will no doubt be more of the same.