Southern "Morally Impoverished" Law Center's Alleged KKKorruption Caught by Trump DOJ

On April 21st, the US Attorney's Office, Middle District of Alabama. released a Press Release that stated the following: "Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan and National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party)"

The charges range from wire fraud and false bank statements, to conspiracy to commit money laundering. Ultimately, the information coming out reveals an organization that looks to have engaged in deception, manipulation, and racial injustice despite its lengthy history of advocating against the evils of White Supremacy and racial violence. If these charges are confirmed in court and result in convictions, The Southern Poverty Law Center, which I renamed in the title above title based on the egregious DOJ charges, will suffer irreversible and historic damage.

Beyond the legal implications, which are very serious, the focus of this article is the moral and integrity-related indiscretions that violate basic rules of public trust and institutional integrity. The DOJ Press Release goes on make the following powerful statement:

“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”

“The SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public," said FBI Director Kash Patel. "They lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups - even utilizing the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes. That is illegal – and this is an ongoing investigation against all individuals involved.”

It is clear from the DOJ statement that the SPLC agitated racial events by manipulating through paid operatives to escalate threat conditions to boost their cause and reputation when it comes to fighting racial hostility by the KKK and other racist organizations. African American opinion writer, Adam B. Coleman expresses in his recent opinion piece, SPLC paid to fuel Ku Klux Klan’s hate, then raised money to put it out, very symbolic language that provides a telling depiction of the SPLC allegations: "The SPLC, it turns out, is the equivalent of an arsonist firefighter — someone who sets buildings ablaze so he can help extinguish the conflagration for public praise."

Given the pathology presented by the DOJ, the public trust is potentially violated by such deception, agitation, and dishonesty, and as more details emerge to possibly reveal more institutional disregard for integrity and ethical responsibility, institutional character and civic virtue deserves a major refresh culturally so the national interest is not subjected to this level of exploitation and corruption. The comments below from the DOJ Press Release strongly emphasize what I am saying when it comes to the societal impact of what the SPLC allegedly engaged in for nearly ten years:

"According to the indictment starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction.  Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.

“Donors gave their money believing they were supporting the fight against violent extremism,” said Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson. “As alleged, the SPLC instead diverted a portion of those funds to benefit individuals and groups they claimed to oppose. That kind of deception undermines public trust and social cohesion.”

Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including:

The DOJ findings from their investigation reveal that SPLC seems to have major moral integrity issues. Because they are accused of engaging in nearly ten years of deception, dishonesty, and racial manipulation with their donors and the public, SPLC's historic reputation looks to be in jeopardy. Because of the DOJ findings, many are now treating SPLC as an organization that is morally compromised, morally reckless, and a threat to public safety and racial harmony. In fact, because of the controversial revelations, it is likely that their alleged misconduct will negatively impact the non-profit sector and open the doors for other donor organizations to be investigated and scrutinized by the media and the public.

In his book, Integrity: A Philosophical Inquiry, Mark S. Halfon provides an excellent analysis on page 20 of the meaning and value of integrity and that people of integrity will not compromise their commitments in what they say and do. His analysis can easily be applied to institutions like the SPLC who, according to the DOJ, violated their organizational commitments to advocating for racial justice for a prolonged period of time without feeling ashamed or morally compromised. The following quote by Halfon directly applies to SPLC as an institutions that was willing to compromise its moral integrity standing for financial gain and public accolades.

"When people refrain from using available means to fulfill a pledge, it becomes doubtful that they are genuinely committed. This point may also help to explain one of the differences between sincerity and integrity. The kinds of people described in the preceding paragraph may have been sincere in expressing their intentions, but since they do not do what is within their power to achieve their avowed intentions, they cannot be said to be committed to their objectives and, consequently, cannot qualify as persons of integrity.

Unless and until we see otherwise in the SPLC defense statements before and during the federal trial, they will remain an organization that will forever be scarred by this nearly ten year episode of moral failure. Hence, my renaming as the Southern "Morally Impoverished" Law Center will be my response to define how they abandoned true justice and a mission grounded in integrity and moral principles.

From DEI Duplicity to DEI Denial

From politics and media, to HR and academia, DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) is all the rage throughout our nation as more attention is devoted to issues of race and ethnicity. The DEI issue garnered much attention earlier this year on college campuses as story after story revealed numerous controversies surroundding DEI policies and practices that created more questions than answers about whether the DEI realities actually promote true diversity, equity, and inclusion versus division, exclusion, and intolerance. DEI certainly came to a head late Spring as Palestinian proterstors waged a PR war on campuses throughout the country resulting in buildings occupied, classes interrupted, and Jewish students taunted and threatened.

Most recently, DEI once again captured the media spotlight as Vice President Kamala Harris became the replacement Democratic candidate when President Biden was pressured into submission by Democrat insiders. On Sunday July 21st, Biden announced that he would not run for re-election. This decision suddenly elevated Vice President Harris to become the heir apparent Presidential candidate for the November 5th elections.

Not long after Presidednt Biden's announcement, Republicans began referring to Harris as the "DEI Candidate". To be clear, this was not because of her embrace of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" practices and policies. Rather, she was crawned with this label thanks to Biden and the media. No more than six months after Biden and Harris entered the White House, Biden signed Executive Order 14035, which establishes DEI as a government-wide intitative because, "As the Nation’s largest employer, the Federal Government must be a model for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, where all employees are treated with dignity and respect."

The Biden-Harris Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce spells out in great detail the parameters and expectations for how this government-wide program will be implemented and executed. The document proceeds to explain the broader context of how it originated and the overall mission with the following example:

This order reaffirms support for, and builds upon, the procedures established by Executive Orders 13583, 13988, and 14020, the Presidential Memorandum on Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the National Security Workforce, and the National Security Memorandum on Revitalizing America’s Foreign Policy and National Security Workforce, Institutions, and Partnerships.  This order establishes that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are priorities for my Administration and benefit the entire Federal Government and the Nation, and establishes additional procedures to advance these priorities across the Federal workforce.

It is crystal clear that the Biden-Harris Administration takes great pride in projecting itself as THE diversity administration by virtue of it's explicit commitment to extolling the virtues and values of DEI and highlightihng its DEI trackrecord above and beyond any other adminstration in our nation's history.

That said, the pushback from the Biden-Harris administration and the left, media included, has been a sight to behold. Collectively, while they flippantly argue that the GOP is racist for labeling Harris a "DEI Candidate", their collective amnesia has overlooked numerous DEI details straight from the mouth of Biden that have either crowned her as a "DEI Candidate" or celebrated her DEI credentials.

Consider this August 30, 2019 CNN article headline, Biden says he would prefer a person of color or a woman as his vice president. From there, the article captures Biden's own words on the Vice Presidential candidate selection:

Spartanburg, South CarolinaCNN — 

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that when picking a running mate, he would prefer someone who was “of color and/or a different gender.”

“Whomever I pick, preferably it will be someone who was of color and/or a different gender, but I’m not making that commitment until I know that the person I’m dealing with I can completely and thoroughly trust as authentic and on the same page [as me],” Biden said while speaking to a roundtable of black journalists.

The comment echoed previous statements he’s made. When asked by CNN’s Chris Cuomo in July if he would need to have a female running mate, Biden replied, “I think it’d be great to have a female VP.”

Correct me if I'm wrong, but If that's not in the spirit and intent of DEI, then DEI is more elusive than a runaway Barry Sanders in an open field surrounded by Green Bay Packer defenders! Good luck trying to grasp, understand, and coherently apply DEI consistently. Better yet, maybe we need to change DEI altogether to somethign like DEC....Diversity, Equity, and C-O-N-F-U-S-I-O-N! But wiat, there's more.

In another example, consider this statement from the "WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE on ASIAN AMERICANS, NATIVE HAWAIIANS, and PACIFIC ISLANDERS: NATIONA L STRATEGY to ADVANCE EQUITY, JUSTICE , and OPPORTUNITY for ASIAN AMERICAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN, and PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES", January 2023:

On his first day in office, President Biden signed Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government. The Executive Order committed to a whole-of-government equity agenda and recognized that although the ideal of equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, entrenched disparities in our laws, public policies, and institutions too often deny equal opportunity to individuals and communities.

After highlighting the Biden list of DEI accomplishments, the document goes on to further state the following:

The Biden-Harris Administration reflects the rich diversity of America, with a series of historic firsts. In addition to having groundbreaking Asian American representation with the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, the President’s Cabinet also includes U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar.

The evidence is undeniable that racial and ethnic identity for Biden is to be elevated, celebrated and promoted as DEI credentials, and it is because of this, that Harris has been branded as a "DEI Candidate". The criterion that makes "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" functional and relevant in politics, employment, academia, and elsewhere makes it equally applicable in the labeling of candidates whose racial and ethnic identity have already been celebreted in prior situations, which I have highlighted above. To deny this racial and ethnic manipulation is absurd, dishonest, and duplicitous. I say duplicitous because it is a double standard and contradictory when you assert and celebrate racial and ethnic identity when it's convenient and advantageous for self-serviing pruposes. But when rivals do the same as a critque of the misuse of racial and ethnic ideinty or to highlight candidates based on a questonable selecton process that disregards important deficiencies, DEI advocates erroneously cry foul, as if they're the only ones permitted to speak on the issue, which for them can only be in the affirmative. This is the heights of hypocrisy and is what makes politics detestable.

Biden's DEI duplicty was also on center stage duing a campaign speech on May 29th at Girard College. This speech is proof positive of Biden's role in the elevation of Kamala Harris's DEI credentials that ultimately led to and inspired the Republicans' use of the "DEI Candidate" term to critcally highlight the DEI system and to call into question the fitness of her Presidential candidacy given her leadershp failures on issues ranging from her role as "Border Czar" and the ongoing immigration woes we face nationally, to foreign policy and US energy independence, and everything in between. In the quote below, you'll see Biden celebrate Vice President Harris as the embodiment of all things DEI.

To me, the values of diversity, equality, inclusion are literally — and this is not kidding — the core strengths of America. That’s why I’m proud to have the most diverse administration in history that taps into the full talents of our country. And it starts at the top with the Vice President.

Again, and in closing, going back to the White House Initiative document mentioned a few paragraphs above, if Kamala as Vice President was history-making in the 2020 Presidential Election because she became the first "Asian American Vice President", her candicacy in this year's Presidential race, as selected by Biden himself, is the fulfillment of Executive Order 13985, which for Biden is what made DEI "a whole-of-government equity agenda". Kamala's candidacy is DEI in action through-and-through, and to argue otherwise is nothing but DEI Denial.

Let the Atrocity Olympics Begin: Uyghurs, Black Genocide, On your Marks!

On February 20, 2021, I published a blog titled China 2022 Olympics, Moral Failure, and the Case for Boycotts. Nearly a year later and we are set to begin two weeks of an abominable PR campaign celebrating China's rise to power through the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while simultaneously ignoring and denying the ignominy of this regime's rapacious appetite for global conquest, human suffering, international hostility, and, in the case of the Uyghurs, ethnic brutality and oppression. Many find this year's event to be an absolute travesty and black eye on the Olympic tradition, and I firmly believe that an international boycott is defensible and appropriate given Uyghur oppression and the CCP's invidious role in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

In my original blog, I take direct aim at China's egregious human rights abuses involving everything from torture and organ harvesting to enslavement and outright genocide of the Uyghurs. Of course my critique of China, the Chinese Communist Party or CCP specifically, would not be complete without raising the ire and outrage of the world over the CCP's mishandling of the pandemic, where two years later the world continues to suffer miserably while the Chinese regime basks not in shame, lament, or forgiveness, but tone-deaf entitlement, arrogance, and gross negligence and narcissism.

There are many different directions I could take because the issues are that deep and the moral failures that profound. As the title indicates, however, the United States has its own reckoning to deal with, and I will treat that for the remainder of this blog. For contemporary considerations, especially when you factor in human loss, impact to future generations, and callous moral indifference, abortion and the African American community is today's frontrunner for America in the "atrocity Olympics" between the U.S. and China.

In the article, Abortion: The overlooked tragedy for black Americans, Arizona State Representative Walt Blackman makes some rather remarkable and compelling statements about abortion and black genocide:

...Yet, 36 percent of all abortions were obtained by black women. At a ratio of 474 abortions per 1,000 live births, black women have the highest ratio of any group in the country.

When you use those percentages, it indicates that of the over 44 million abortions since the 1973 Roe vs Wade Supreme Court ruling, 19 million black babies were aborted. African Americans are just under 13 percent of United States population.

It is undeniably good that we convey the positive stories of our community to our fellow countrymen. It is important that we pass on stories that empower us. However, it is harmful to all black Americans if we continue to let society look the other way when it comes to the devastation that political policies like abortion wreak on the black community.

As staggering as these numbers are, they are conceivably higher when you account for the fact that most, if not all, abortion data is provided to the CDC by Planned Parenthood, the lead organization when it comes to abortion referrals and services in the United States. It is fair to assume that these numbers are likely under-reported to obscure the facts and temper public shock, outrage, and disapproval. Still, the data speaks loud and clear and yet the silence, as State Rep. Blackman accurately points out, is equally deafening from political leaders, community leaders, clergy, corporate investors, and child advocacy groups. This reminds me of Hanna Arendt's banality of evil, where government leaders in China and America are caught in the grips of ghoulish evil, silence, and moral indifference as the world witnesses government sponsored atrocity.

As for the inhumanities against the Uyghurs and America's virtual silence and unwillingness to be a beacon of hope that inspires protest for all the right reasons, perhaps the American "dilemma" our nation's leaders face can be found in the 19 million aborted black babies that continue to devastate black America. This ongoing body count is exactly why many are calling abortion in the black community black genocide in America. Thus, is this the reason why we are witnessing moral cowardice from the Biden-Harris Administration over the Uyghurs because of the obvious indifference and noxious disregard they have over black genocide? They'll never say and we'll never know, but I find it highly disturbing and ironic that between the Uyghur atrocities and black genocide, endless inhumanities and ethnic injustices are being tolerated and ignored both by the Biden-Harris Administration and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In fact, all you have to do is read the position statements by both groups to see hypocrisy in action amidst human atrocity respectively.

Below is a snapshot of President Biden's October 14, 2021 statement on the "United States Election to the Human Rights Council."

The United States stands ready to work with partners and allies to help lead the world toward a more peaceful, prosperous future, grounded in respect for human dignity. Together, we will stand up for the rights of all, including women and girls, members of LGBTQI+ communities, members of ethnic and religious minorities, those living with disabilities, and members of other marginalized groups. We will promote accountability for governments that abuse human rights. And we will stand in solidarity with, and continue to work tirelessly in support of, the activists, human rights defenders, and peaceful protestors on the front lines of the struggle between freedom and tyranny.

Similarly, here's a statement from the IOC on human rights that comes from its Recommendations for an IOC Human Rights Strategy that's dated March 2020:

The IOC Code of Ethics is also an important reference point for the organization. Fundamental Principle 1 in the Olympic Charter states that “Olympism seeks to build a way of life based on … respect for universal fundamental ethical principles”. The Code of Ethics seeks to define this broad term in Article 1 to include a number of issues, one of which is “[r]espect for international conventions on protecting human rights insofar as they apply to the Olympic Games’ activities and which ensure in particular: - respect for human dignity; - rejection of discrimination of any kind on whatever grounds …; -

Given the Uyghur realities that are widely known to the world along with the 19 million aborted black babies, better known as black genocide, both official statements reflect the heights of hypocrisy, shallowness, and tone-deaf leadership. Both pathetically demonstrate profound moral incoherence, though America strives to remain rooted and grounded in integrity, freedom, and justice as exemplified by the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. In the case of the Biden-Harris Administration, however, what's extremely disturbing is that we are only one week into Black History Month and yet no recognition of or attempts to course-correct the abortion trajectory in black America as we accelerate toward 20 million black aborted babies! Clearly, the Biden Harris Administration, Xi Jinping and the CCP regime, and the IOC are deeply invested in perpetuating and ignoring human atrocity and genocide, and the world community ought to be outraged at this level of moral incompetence.

For the next two weeks, America's credibility suffers each day it refuses to speak up for and speak out against the Chinese Communist Party's inhumane treatment of the Uyghurs. Likewise, silence and neglect over black genocide and the 19 million aborted black babies in America is an ongoing painful reality that inflicts incalculable damage to black America, economically, politically, spiritually, emotionally, generationally, and most noticeably...numerically.

We hear a lot about systemic racism today, and If systemic racism is the cause celebre globally due to the Black Lives Matter movement, between the Uyghur atrocities and black genocidal abortion (systemic racism on steroids), Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party along with the Biden-Harris Administration are knee deep in systemic racism and losers in the worst "atrocity Olympics" since the Berlin Games of1936, and we know what happened after that spectacle and how the dark clouds of Hitler and his Nazi regime changed the world forever. Starting with the IOC and the Olympic tradition, when will we learn from history? Obviously we didn't learn from 1936 as Hitler marched through Europe to persecute the world with antisemitism, global inhumanity, and warring of the nations, but here we go again with another round of the "atrocity Olympics" and the denial of life, liberty, and human dignity.