Ignoring its own ties Prop 200 group denounces white 'separatist
Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at 02:25AM
TheSpook
Ignoring its own ties, anti-immigration Prop 200 group denounces white 'separatist' Protect Arizona Now (PAN), a group backing a harsh anti-immigration
referendum that would jail government employees who fail to report
suspected illegal aliens applying for social welfare benefits, has
appointed a well-known white supremacist to head its national advisory
board. The Center for New Community, an antiracist group based in
Chicago, reported that PAN director Kathy McKee in July brought in
Virginia Abernethy, a retired professor who is tied closely to the
Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC; see Communing with the Council)
hate group. Although Abernethy denied being a supremacist, telling the
Arizona Daily Star that she was merely a white "separatist" who
preferred to be "with my own kind," she was immediately denounced by
the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). FAIR, which
helped pay to gather signatures for the referendum but later broke
angrily with McKee, described Abernethy's views as "repugnant." [more]
Pictured: Virginia Abernathy, the chairwoman
of the national advisory board for the Anti- Immigration Initiative. She has stated that she believes in the separation
of the races. Abernathy considers herself a "separatist," not a supremacist. "I'm in favor
of separatism -- and that's different than supremacy," She has also been active in the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group. [more] Using Immigration as Pretext for Hate - Arizona Racism and Prop 200 [more ]
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