Recent revelations about the Southern Poverty Law Center are, to put it mildly, disturbing. It appears the SPLC, which has grown wealthy “fighting” racial hatred, long ago found itself in a classic capitalist conundrum: the supply of genuine racism wasn’t remotely keeping up with Democrat demand. America has been largely successful in achieving the goals of the Civil Rights Movement, which makes Americans proud. 

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Innumerable “racist” events have turned out to be hoaxes. A “noose” hanging from a construction crane near a college campus was merely a steel cable loop of the kind used for lifting heavy objects. A “noose” on a dormitory doorknob was an abandoned shoelace someone hung on the knob in the hope its owner would find it. Many instances of racist, anti-black graffiti have been discovered, by surveillance camera footage and later confessions, to have been done by blacks. A “noose” hanging on a NASCAR track garage door randomly assigned to black driver Bubba Wallace caused no fewer than 15 FBI agents to descend on the track, only to discover it was a garage door pull-down that had been there for years. And then there was the horrific case of Jussie Smollett, which was quickly exposed as a particularly inept hoax. 

Horrible instances of supposed racism have quickly been exposed as hoaxes, often perpetrated by blacks, who, when caught, claimed they did it to “raise awareness” of racism, or to “spark a conversation” about racism. It’s a “conversation” no one can avoid these days, in part due to the SPLC, which now stands accused of paying for and sponsoring racist organizations and events to raise hundreds of millions. Now we’re discovering, from a superseding DOJ indictment, it’s worse than we thought:

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Field sources used the money to attend and host “extremist group rallies”; grow and create “new chapters of extremist groups”; recruit new members; donate to extremist group leaders; “purchase materials for cross burnings; purchase materials to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods”; and more.

One of the field sources, identified as “F-9,” reportedly had a romantic relationship with an SPLC employee. F-9 infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance and received $140,000 from the SPLC. F-9 shared bank accounts with the SPLC employee, who used the cash to pay for the couple’s personal living expenses.

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The SPLC even paid to keep people in the Klan:

The field source identified as F-30, who led the National Socialist Party of America, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and led a faction of the Aryan Nations that had chapters in approximately 17 states, reached out to the SPLC while “seeking to get out of the white nationalist movement.”

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An SPLC employee “offered F-30 a monthly salary of approximately $2,500.00 in addition to payment of expenses to continue to lead and maintain the violent extremist organization F-30 told the SPLC employee he wanted to leave,” according to the superseding indictment.

The SPLC used the shell company Rare Books to pay F-30 more than $70,000 in donor funds between 2010 and 2016, according to the indictment.

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“F-30 used donors’ money to, among other things, travel to extremist rallies, host extremist rallies, donate money to leaders of other extremist organizations, recruit new members into his extremist organization, publish racist and extremist material for the purpose of recruiting new members, … and create racist paraphernalia to sell at rallies to raise money for his extremist organization,” the indictment states. “This was known to certain employees as they continued to secretly funnel donors’ money to F-30.”

The SPLC paid for all manner of things, including reimbursing Klan members for the costs of making and burning crosses. The SPLC allegedly engaged in all manner of fraud:

The SPLC employee directed these field sources to falsely state they received the money for helping college students write and research essays, the indictment claims. Using this money, F-31 and F-32 “attended extremist group rallies in multiple states,” and the activity led F-31 to rise to “a leadership role within an extremist group.” In that role, “F-31 actively recruited new members using donors’ money.”

And if that weren't enough corruption:

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The SPLC has claimed it was merely paying “informants,” the better to fight racism. If that’s so, why did it set up multiple shell companies to pay people like F-30? Wouldn’t such noble acts be properly done under the SPLC’s name and accounts? Wouldn’t the SPLC want that to be known and accountable? What appears to be clear is the SPLC has been creating racism to raise millions to “fight” it.

The SPLC’s interim CWO, Bryan Fair, will testify before Congress on June 9. It will be interesting to see him try to defend what appears to be indefensible acts resurrecting long- dead racism for profit.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.