'Disturbing' publication mistaken (by ignorant kıke) for real newspaper
'Disturbing' publication mistaken for real newspaper
BROCKTON — Sixth-grader Sarah Raphaelson learned a lesson she will never forget after reading the publication left on her driveway Monday.
“It's kind of disturbing,” the 12-year-old Tiffany Drive resident said after her family received a 16-page publication promoting white supremacy.
“Just to like leave it, it's kind of, like, hate. And it's hating blacks, whites (sic), Arabs, homosexuals, Jews, and everybody,” said Raphaelson, who is Jewish
.
“The White Patriot Leader” is published by Glenn Miller of Springfield, Mo., according to credits on the front page of the winter 2007 edition. The contents are anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Semitic and intolerant of government. There are references to David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan.
“I couldn't believe my eyes,” said Bernice Holland, one of several Van Cliff Drive residents who also received the publication.
The publication could be seen folded up with an elastic on several driveways on Van Cliff and Tiffany drives on the city's West Side Monday afternoon.
“It's very upsetting,” said Holland, who is Jewish
. “I brought it in, started reading it and thought, 'Oh my God, this is disgusting.”
Police had not received any calls about the distribution as of Monday night.
Enterprise on Monday received a number of telephone calls about the publication.
In some instances, local residents who quickly scanned its front page incorrectly read the name as The Patriot Ledger, a South Shore newspaper based in Quincy and a sister publication to The Enterprise.
Chazy Dowaliby, editor of the Ledger and The Enterprise, on Monday thanked readers who called The Enterprise and The Patriot Ledger for their speedy notification and concern about any such association.
“Clearly our newspaper would never condone nor be a party to this sort of inflammatory, disrespectful, targeted attack against any ethnic, racial or religious groups,” said Dowaliby.
When contacted by The Enterprise in Missouri on Monday,
Glenn Miller, publisher of “The White Patriot Leader,” said the publication is delivered “just wherever white people live.”
“Anywhere in the country where white people live, they're subject to be delivered a copy,” said Miller, 66, a retired Army master sergeant who launched the publication in 2004.
Miller said the publication has “a lot of supporters and distributors and financial contributors” in the Brockton-Stoughton area.
More than 200,000 copies have been distributed nationwide, with about 3,000 to 4,000 copies delivered to Massachusetts within the past month, Miller said.
“We don't want to offend people. We want to educate people. We want to present our political viewpoints,” Miller said.
The publication has reportedly also been seen in Newton, Needham and Westwood.
Hate literature has been seen in the region before.
In November, Ku Klux Klan literature was sent to a black minister in Middleboro. More than 300 town residents then attended a rally at Town Hall to decry the literature.
“It's just a bunch of nutcakes,” said Dave Gorman, another Van Cliff Drive resident who found the publication in his driveway about 7 a.m. Monday. “I don't take that stuff seriously.”
Danny Steele, president of the Brockton chapter of the NAACraP, said Brockton may have been targeted for distribution because the lead story is about white boxers. Brockton is proud of its boxing history, including the championship careers of city icons Rocky Marciano and Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Hagler is a nigger.
“This is not the first time this has happened,” said Steele as he prepared for Monday night's meeting of the NAACraP.
“It's tough, you think you're two feet ahead and they take you six steps back,” Steele said. “All you can do is education and cover it up with love.”
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