more background to the statue incident: more neo-Confederates and an unlikely supporter, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Subject: more background to the statue incident: more neo-Confederates and an unlikely supporter, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center
From: Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com>
Date: 10/15/09, 13:39
To: Barett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

I have spoken at length with Peter Schmidt  <peter.schmidt@chronicle.com>, an editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, about the attack, so that may be a publication venue for you.   There is also Hilary Hurd <hilary@diverseeducation.com> of the periodical, Diverse Issues in Higher Education.  The current president of the NAACP, Ben Jealous, who knew about the attack as it happened, can perhaps be reached through his wife, Lia Epperson Jealous
http://law.scu.edu/faculty/profile/epperson-lia.cfm
or her sister, Sharon Epperson <sharonepp@yahoo.com>, +1 914 235 2129.



Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center disagrees with both of us.  In a September 22, 2005 email, he told me that my comments were "pretty harsh".

Note that the Robert McCain article quotes a conservative calumnist Tim Chavez. In the Tim Chavez piece, Chavez (and Robert McCain) misleadingly fail to state that the person who is complaining wrote his complaint *before* I wrote my essay, in response to an official press release of the Green Party National Steering Committee, in which I was quoted, I believe some time in October 2002.  My essay was in fact a *response* to this person, not the other way around.

I attach a typical Chavez article since it is the kind of attack writing you rightly criticize Robert McCain for.  I never acknowledged or denied publishing the email Chavez claims to be quoting (of course everything in it is entirely proper), and Chavez grossly misleads the reader by not indicating that the email is a response to a hostile---if not threatening---email by a man Chavez never identifies as the Vice President of the Confederate Society of America, Gary Waltrip.  (Incidentally, in republishing an email without confirming its validity, the Tennessean grossly violated journalistic standards, and in republishing it without permission they violated copyright law.)

The emails containing threats that I forwarded to you were sent to the Nashville police, which has done nothing.
Sgt. Widener of the Hermitage precinct (Nashville police department) is supposed to be investigating the threats against me.  He can be reached at +1 615 862 6993.  Jim Hickson of the Hate Crimes Division is supposed to be as well: +1 615 782 3301.

Regards,
Jonathan Farley



More articles are here:
http://www.fac.org//news.aspx?id=3074&SearchString=jonathan_farley
 
from a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and professor at Stanford University
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/farley.htm
 
Another typical example, from a professor at Loyola College of Maryland, Thomas DiLorenzo
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo33.html
(I cannot point out all the false statements: I will simply indicate that I am not, nor have I ever been, a communist, Marxist, or socialist, despite repeated assertions that I am one or all of these.)
 
Here is a report on DiLorenzo by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=844