White Nationalist Is Behind Black Anti-Immigration Reform March
A white nationalist famed for creating influential immigration-restrictionist groups is bankrolling a black anti-immigration march set to take place on July 15 of this year. John Tanton — a man who has declared his preference for whites and published articles by racist writers who have referred to black Americans as “a retrograde species of humanity” — is using his network of anti-immigration groups as the financial force behind the event.
The Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA) is the latest iteration of black pseudo-advocacy groups created by Tanton’s groups, which include the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and Numbers USA. BALA’s predecessor, Choose Black America, was also created by the same groups.
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John Tanton is the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement. He created a network of organizations – the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA – that have profoundly shaped the immigration debate in the United States. A retired Michigan ophthalmologist, Tanton has white nationalist beliefs and has written that to maintain American culture, “a European-American majority” is required. As of 2010, Tanton served on FAIR’s board of directors.
In His Own Words
“I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.”
– Dec. 10, 1993, letter to the late Garrett Hardin, a controversial ecology professor.“I have no doubt that individual minority persons can assimilate to the culture necessary to run an advanced society but if through mass migration, the culture of the homeland is transplanted from Latin America to California, then my guess is we will see the same degree of success with governmental and social institutions that we have seen in Latin America.”
– Jan. 26, 1996, letter to Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA (and then an employee of Tanton’s foundation U.S. Inc.).“Do we leave it to individuals to decide that they are the intelligent ones who should have more kids? And more troublesome, what about the less intelligent, who logically should have less? Who is going to break the bad news [to less intelligent individuals], and how will it be implemented?”
– Sept. 18, 1996, letter to now-deceased California multimillionaire and eugenicist Robert K. Graham.“I write to encourage keeping track of those on our same side of the issue, but who are nonetheless our competitors for dollars and members.”
– April 20, 1998, correspondence asking several FAIR employees to ensure they receive mailings from American Renaissance, a racist, pseudo-scientific magazine focusing on race, intelligence and eugenics. (The underlining was in Tanton’s original letter).