Another category of Web sites where interracial sexuality and marriage figure prominently are white supremacist Web sites. These sites are increasingly found on the Internet and are developed by what is commonly referred to as hate groups, who use the Internet to conduct business and recruit members as well as to maintain contact with existing members. There have been identified four different categories of white supremacist thought—the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazis, the Christian Identity church, and the militia—with each of these groups sharing an opposition to the mixing of the races. This opposition to interracial sex and marriage comes out of their views on racial superiority and the need to maintain a white power structure. Most of these Web sites code their white supremacist racist language in ways that allow them to argue that this is not hate speech. For example, on the Stormfront Web site a member posted the following: “I do not believe we must push superiority of our race. I think this is a big stumbling block. . . . [Whites] need to be made proud of their culture, then they will feel the superiority which is spoken of so often. . . . You must make the greater calls more subtle.” On these sites the idea of interracial sexuality, especially a black man with a white woman, is widely used to rationalize and justify their ideological positions. A color-blind discourse is not used when discussing the mixing of the races, however. On the contrary, race, whiteness, and racial difference are explicitly discussed. Within the membership requirements of the majority of the Web sites, one not only has to be white—which is defined as “a non-Jewish person of wholly European ancestry”—but one is also ineligible if he or she has a “non-White spouse or a non-White dependent.”A white Aryan Web site outlines hundreds of goals and problems and argues that “racial mongrelism is evil—racism good. . . . Racial homogeneity protects good civil societies from disintegration and collapse, and is the very foundation for beginning civilization itself.”
A major tenet of the white supremacist movement and their Web sites is the perceived threats to whiteness and, in actuality, white power. Interracial sexuality threatens whiteness and white identity because through interracial relations, biracial children, who blur the racial boundaries, can be produced. Race mixing is seen as a way “not to ‘save’ or ‘redeem’ Whites, but to destroy them completely. One Web sites argues that “the purpose of the South’s Jim Crow laws were for keeping black males’ natural proclivity for rape, robbery and murder corralled; anti-miscegenation laws were to prevent contamination of the white race by those heritable proclivities.”
These sites also advocate that something must be done to stop “racemixing.” The National Alliance clearly states that “after the sickness of ‘Multiculturalism’ . . . has been swept away, we must again have a racially clean area of the earth for the further development of our people. . . . We must have no non-Whites in our living space. . . . We will do whatever is necessary to achieve this White living space and to keep it White.” While these hate groups and white supremacist sites may seem extreme in their portrayal of interracial unions as deviant, unnatural, and undesirable, their views actually derive from white mainstream thought and should be understood as an example of racialized discourse. For example, a connection of these sites to the pornographic sites are clear. Both draw from the image of black men seducing and having sex with white women, even if the images are used for different purposes or most likely have different meanings for the viewer. This only points to how ingrained the ideas and discourses on black-white sexuality and relationships are, where the images are reproduced in many different ways. The white fear of black men having sex with white women, which began during slavery, continues today and is used to justify the ideas and actions of white supremacist groups and to provide sexual pleasure on pornographic sites.
Looking at the Internet provides another lens through which to see the images and ideas about interracial couples that exist in society. Ebay, the “world’s online marketplace,” where one can literally buy anything, actually encompasses all of these images. A search for “interracial” on Ebay generally yields about fifteen to twenty items that can be categorized as celebratory, sexual, or racist. The celebratory items—“interracial wedding cake toppers,” interracial figurines with a white and black individual embracing, pictures and paintings of interracial couples, and even an occasional copy of Randall Kennedy’s Interracial Intimacies—serve as reminders of how unusual interracial couples are and how difficult it is to find products that feature an interracial couple in mainstream venues, therefore the need for online sales of items such as interracial wedding cake toppers. Ebay, like the rest of the Internet, markets and sells interracial unions in particular ways.
In short, these two types of Websites and their underlying ideologies paint a picture in which color and race are both everything and nothing. Race and racial difference is explicitly outlined on the white supremacist sites, and to some extent the pornographic sites, the sites promote the idea that interracial couples are deviant. There is no discussion of racial inequality, unless in a distorted and historically inaccurate way. To a large extent, the Web sites reflect the dominant ideologies about black-white couples in the larger society: interracial couples are not the norm or most people’s preference; the couples are overtly sexual or sexually deviant; and the relationships create problems such as children. Furthermore, it is evident that many sites consider interracial couples as deviant—a fetish to be watched or a problem to be fixed. Whatever they may be, interracial unions are not the accepted or expected norm of society.
darkice85
They can’t stop progression I honestly think at this rate in about 100 years one third of the of American families will be biracial in one of the last 2 generations.