Ken Blackwell has weighed in on the explosive news that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been funding racial discord for decades. A federal grand jury has handed down indictments against the business practices of this organization that outlines how the SPLC was funding the very evils they were supposedly fighting.
Ken Blackwell:
The mask is off. For 40 years, the Southern Poverty Law Center told you they were fighting hate. Yesterday, a federal grand jury indicted them for funding it.
The SPLC. The organization that built a billion-dollar empire branding your neighbors, your pastors, your parents’ groups, and your preschool Bible camps as “hate groups.”
The self-appointed morality police of American civic life. Indicted. For wire fraud. For bank fraud. For conspiracy to commit money laundering. Eleven counts. A federal grand jury. In Alabama.
Here is what the Justice Department says they did.
They took your neighbor’s $50 donation. They took the foundation grants. They took the money from every well-meaning retiree who thought they were fighting the Klan.
And they funneled $3 million of it, through shell companies and fake bank accounts, to actual Klansmen. To neo-Nazis. To the Aryan Nations. To the organizers of Charlottesville.
One of their paid sources helped plan Unite the Right. The SPLC cut him checks for $270,000 over eight years.
Another one of their informants got more than a million dollars while running with the National Alliance, the most notorious neo-Nazi outfit in America.
The Acting Attorney General said it plain. The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. The SPLC was manufacturing the extremism it claimed to oppose.
In the 80’s and 90’s America was becoming what MLK had spoken about. More and more people did not see color when sizing up people. People were being judged on their character and not the color of their skin. The SPLC needed to maintain racial discord or the funds would dry up.
Blackwell:
Every time the SPLC put Moms for Liberty on a “hate map,” they had Klansmen on their payroll.
Every time they smeared Parents Defending Education, they were writing checks to Nazis.
Every time they told reporters that traditional Christians were a menace to democracy, they were laundering donor money to men in white hoods.
Every time the FBI cited their “research” to surveil Catholics at Mass, that research was built on a criminal enterprise.
One of the things that many people are aware of is the SPLC’s “Hate Map.” These were organizations that supposedly promoted hate. The SPLC’s hate map smeared organizations over and over again across the country. Getting on it was supposed to be a death sentence for that organization.
Blackwell:
The same hate map the federal government now says was produced by an organization that was paying Klansmen on the side.
My friend Leo Johnson took a bullet because the SPLC put a target on the Family Research Council. And while a pro-family Christian organization was being shot up in broad daylight in our nation’s capital, the SPLC, according to this indictment, had actual neo-Nazis on its payroll.
Let every journalist who ever parroted the SPLC’s “hate group” label sit with that for a minute. Let every cable news anchor who cited the hate map sit with it. Let every social media platform that deplatformed Christian ministries based on SPLC “research” sit with it.
Let every bank and every payment processor that cut off pro-life groups because the SPLC told them to sit with it.
You helped build this. You are going to own it.
Remember the names the SPLC targeted.
- The Family Research Council.
- Alliance Defending Freedom.
- Turning Point USA.
- Moms for Liberty.
- Gays Against Groomers.
- The California Family Council.
- Homeschool co-ops.
- Church groups.
- Parents at school board meetings.
- Ordinary Americans who wanted a say in their children’s education.
Blackwell:
The SPLC called them extremists.
The indictment says the SPLC was funding the real thing.
Now ask yourself why, in the last several weeks, every corporate outlet in America has been running hit piece after hit piece on FBI Director Kash Patel.
Because Kash Patel saw this coming. He severed the FBI’s ties with the SPLC last October. He called them a partisan smear machine. He signed off on the subpoenas. He made sure the Alabama grand jury got what it needed. The indictment you read yesterday has his fingerprints on it.
The left is not smearing Kash Patel because he is reckless. They are smearing him because he is effective. They do not want him in that chair when the rest of the SPLC’s secrets come out. And make no mistake. More is coming.
The SPLC’s response to the indictment? They say they are “outraged by false allegations.” They say they are a “beacon of hope.”
A beacon of hope does not open shell companies to wire money to the Ku Klux Klan. A civil rights organization does not bankroll the men who firebombed Black churches. A nonprofit accountable to its donors does not hide $3 million in payments to neo-Nazis behind fake bank accounts for 40 years.
An organization whose hate map put a target on a Christian ministry, and got a man shot at his desk, does not get to call itself a beacon of anything.
Every corporate HR department, every university diversity office, every newsroom editor, every federal agency, and every school district that ever used the SPLC “hate map” to target Americans owes those Americans an apology.
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The verdict on guilt will come from a jury. That is how America works.
The verdict on credibility is already in.
The SPLC is finished.
The hate map is a fraud.
The labels are worthless.
The moral authority is gone.
The SPLC turned into a hate group and a very corrupt group at that. It appears that accountability is coming since Bondi was removed.