Word: metzger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, there are about 2,000 members of racist skinhead gangs active in 21 states. Lately they have become more visible on the West Coast, possibly because of recruiting efforts by the Aryan Youth Movement, a neo-Nazi group whose leader, John Metzger, was among those involved in the brawl on the Geraldo Rivera show. Their menace may be spreading. Warns David Lowe, an associate director of the A.D.L.: "There have been skinhead activities in areas where racist activities have never made inroads before. They are young kids, and they are very mobile...
...Cornell was not very strong, and their starting pointguard [Karla Kelly] was injured," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said. "They were forced to play Metzger at point, which made our press all that more effective...
Some officials are concerned that neo-Nazi types could take over the movement. In California there is little question that skinheads have ties with established racist groups. Tom Metzger, a former Klan leader who now heads the White Aryan Resistance, tries to recruit among skinheads. His son John Metzger teaches skinheads how to organize. Says the younger Metzger: "It's not a fad. It's a movement and a reaction against what's going on." Maybe. But more than anything else, the skinheads are a frightening, pathetic reminder that the U.S. has not solved its racial problems -- and that...
...spirit, Farrakhan's followers are already allied with white American anti-Semitism; Farrakhan deliberately appeals to that. Recently Thomas Metzger, a white supremacist and former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, contributed $100 to Farrakhan's cause in a not-so-odd gesture of alliance. Haters know haters. But who make up these seething crowds? What are they like alone with their minds? Their minds were not searched at the doors. Who was that woman with the ecstatic gaze? Your daughter's teacher...
Farrakhan has made some friends too. In Los Angeles, Thomas Metzger, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who heads a racist group called the White American Political Association, attended Farrakhan's speech and kicked in a $100 donation. Metzger, a self-described white separatist, likes some of Farrakhan's ideas, but says, "I don't see myself moving any closer to him since that would defy logic...