Thread: Making a Living Off "Hate"

Making a living off "hate"


Wish I'd said that!
[Reprinted from Issues & Views July 23, 2001]

Racism in America has become big business, real and otherwise, which is no doubt why Bill Clinton, who got caught several years ago peddling a phony story about church burning in Arkansas, says he'll be getting into it. The appetite for sensation, even when it is half-baked sensation, is insatiable, and Morris Dees could show him how to profit from it.

Mr. Dees is a lawyer in Montgomery, Ala., who is the "national chairman" of something called the Southern Poverty Law Center, which sounds like the hide-out of a noble band of warriors against hate crimes and other racial wrongs, but is actually a fund-raising scheme that could teach televangelists a thing or two. . . .

Dees won a judgment for a black woman whose son was killed by Klansmen. She received $51,875 as settlement. Mr. Dees, according to an investigation by the Montgomery Advertiser, pulled in $9 million from fund-raising solicitation letters that featured a particularly gruesome photograph of the grieving mother's son. Mr. Dees, who pays himself an annual salary of $275,000, offered the grieving mother none of the $9 million dollars her son's death made for him. . . .

White guilt can be manipulated with black pain, but it has to be done carefully. Some people would call what Morris Dees does a hate crime, but it's a living, and a very good one.


-- Wesley Pruden, from "When A Hate Crime Is Something To Love," Washington Times, Feb. 9, 2001.

http://www.issues-views.com/index.php/s ... icle/20002

This is the devious man and his "hate" organization that is so quick to label anti-immigration groups as "Hate" groups.

Very interesting article. . .

We were just recently having another semi-discussion of Dees in this thread:

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... c&p=215907

He certainly is a character, both professionally and privately.