8-14-17

Unfortunatly, I see the horrific & fatal actions from this last weekend as the beginning of an enormous fracture in these UNITED States. What do you think?

The family of one of the participants in Saturday’s white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, says they are disowning him.

Pete Tefft of Fargo, North Dakota, is one of the Charlottesville marchers whose photo was posted on @YesYoureRacist, a Twitter account that calls out racist behavior and attitudes.

Father Disavows His White Supremacist Son, Which Is a Great Place to Start

After the violent and deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville jolted white America to acknowledge the virulent racism unleashed by the Trump administration, one man has publicly disavowed his son for marching on behalf of white supremacists. And more white people should follow his example.

After learning that his son, Pete Tefft, participated in the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that killed one woman and injured over a dozen, Pearce Tefft publicly disavowed his son and everything he represents.“I, along with all of his siblings and his entire family, wish to loudly repudiate my son’s vile, hateful and racist rhetoric and actions,” he wrote in Fargo paper The Forum. “We do not know specifically where he learned these beliefs. He did not learn them at home.”

“Peter Tefft, my son, is not welcome at our family gatherings any longer,” he wrote. “I pray my prodigal son will renounce his hateful beliefs and return home. Then and only then will I lay out the feast.”

The letter continued:

He once joked, “The thing about us fascists is, it’s not that we don’t believe in freedom of speech. You can say whatever you want. We’ll just throw you in an oven.”

Peter, you will have to shovel our bodies into the oven, too. Please son, renounce the hate, accept and love all.

Right, so, if you have a family member or good friend who is making Holocaust jokes about shutting people into the oven, that is not a thing to take lightly. In fact, you have a responsibility to one, shut that conversation down, and two, establish why that’s not an okay thing to say ever, ever again and make it clear that you will not tolerate it. Maybe if more people established these boundaries with their loved ones, they’d be able to catch bigotry before it turned into violence.

Tefft’s nephew, Jacob, similarly renounced Peter in the same paper, writing, in part:

“In brief, we reject him wholly – both him personally as a vile person who has HIMSELF made violent threats against our family, and also his hideous ideology, which we abhor. We are all bleeding-heart liberals who believe in the fundamental equality of all human beings. Peter is a maniac, who has turned away from all of us and gone down some insane internet rabbit-hole, and turned into a crazy nazi. He scares us all, we don’t feel safe around him, and we don’t know how he came to be this way. My grandfather feels especially grieved, as though he has failed as a father.”

The disavowal came after a video of Pete Tefft went viral. But his abhorrent views didn’t suddenly form overnight. He has been a controversial figure in Fargo, North Dakota, for months and was involved in an altercation at the local Women’s March. In late January, members of the community issued posters warning neighbors that Tefft is a Nazi. “I’m a white Christian and 100 percent pro-white. ‘White Supremacist’ is a word used to intimidate Christians and to stifle discord when all of us should be communicating,” he told The Forum. “I’m interested solely in legal political action to further pro-white interests. We as white people have a right to exist, our own identity, and a right to campaign politically and legally for our own interests.”

This is a good reminder that neo-nazism and white supremacy do not exist in a vacuum. #Charlottesville happened because Trump made people like Tefft feel safe expressing their hatred, and because white people who love them have continued to tolerate, ignore, justify, and even support these attitudes. For anyone reflecting on the things they can do to dismantle the continuing rise of white nationalism, the Tefft family’s response to their son’s extremist beliefs is a good step to take.   Source Jezebel

THE BEGINNING OF THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MOVEMENT IN AMERICA

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Man Who Marched In Charlottesville #WhiteSupremacy Rally Disowned By Family

“We do not know specifically where he learned these beliefs,” Pete Tefft’s father wrote in an open letter. “He did not learn them at home.”

The family of one of the participants in Saturday’s white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, says they are disowning him.

Pete Tefft of Fargo, North Dakota, is one of the Charlottesville marchers whose photo was posted on @YesYoureRacist, a Twitter account that calls out racist behavior and attitudes.

In February, Tefft described himself to a reporter as “100 percent pro-white.”

Now, Tefft’s father says he and the rest of the family are 100 percent against his son’s racist beliefs.

In a letter published Monday in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Pearce Tefft wrote that he and other family members ”wish to loudly repudiate” their son’s “vile, hateful and racist rhetoric and actions.”

“We do not know specifically where he learned these beliefs,” Pearce Tefft wrote. “He did not learn them at home.”

In the letter, the elder Tefft said he has taught his children that “all men and women are created equal” and that “we must love each other all the same.”

“Evidently Peter has chosen to unlearn these lessons, much to my and his family’s heartbreak and distress,” Tefft wrote.

He went on:

We have been silent up until now, but now we see that this was a mistake. It was the silence of good people that allowed the Nazis to flourish the first time around, and it is the silence of good people that is allowing them to flourish now.

Peter Tefft, my son, is not welcome at our family gatherings any longer. I pray my prodigal son will renounce his hateful beliefs and return home. Then and only then will I lay out the feast.

Other relatives of Pete Tefft are also publicly disavowing him.

Jacob Scott, his nephew, released this statement to local station WDAY TV: 

Peter is a maniac, who has turned away from all of us and gone down some insane internet rabbit-hole, and turned into a crazy nazi. He scares us all, we don’t feel safe around him, and we don’t know how he came to be this way. My grandfather feels especially grieved, as though he has failed as a father.

HuffPost has reached out to Pete Tefft and Pearce Tefft, neither of whom immediately responded. Source Huffpost

Four-year-old Leo Griffin leaves a Chicago protest against the #altright movement that mourned the victim of Saturday’s rally in #Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 13. (below)

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