1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 2: This program includes violent content which some listeners might find disturbing. 3 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 3: I'm Michael Phillips, an historian and the author of a 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 3: book about racism in Dallas called White Metropolis an upcoming 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 3: book about the eugenics boom in Texas called The Purifying Knife. 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 2: I'm Stephen Monicelli, an investigative reporter who covers political extremism 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: in Texas and beyond. 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 3: In the Pitch Start. Just before midnight on August third, 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, Patrick Crusius took off what would soon be 10 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 3: an infamous journey. The young man from the Dallas suburb 11 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 3: of Allen, Texas had become obsessed with an idea that 12 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 3: would soon move him to murder. 13 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: That idea had been inspired in part by Renaud Camu, 14 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 2: a French racist enraged by the growing Muslim population in Europe. 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 2: In twenty eleven, Camu had given a new name to 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 2: what was actually an old idea with the publication of 17 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 2: his book Legrand Replacement, which translates in English to the 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: Great Replacement. 19 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 3: Camu argued that global elites had conspired to replace the white, 20 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 3: culturally superior population of Europe with darker skinned people who 21 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: were mostly Muslims from the Middle East and Africa. He 22 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 3: claimed these elites had opened the door to mass migration, 23 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 3: discouraged white reproduction, and encouraged the newcomers to intermarry with whites. 24 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 3: This racial displacement, Camu asserted, had brought crime and terrorism 25 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 3: to Europe and threatened the very survival of Western culture. 26 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 2: Camu's idea predated World War Two. The Great Replacement theory 27 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 2: hardly differed from key ideas promoted by eugenicists in Western 28 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 2: Europe and the United States in the late nineteenth century 29 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: and early twenty century. Eugenicists sought to ensure the survival 30 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: of those they believed to be biologically superior. Their methods 31 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: included forced sterilization and harsh immigration restrictions. Failure in this mission, 32 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: they believed, would lead to white extinction. But Camu's book 33 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: enraged and energized a new generation of far right extremists, 34 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: not just in his native France, but all around the world. 35 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 3: Camu didn't specifically identify the elite spuzzedly responsible for what 36 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 3: he called a reverse colonization of the European homeland, but 37 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 3: leaders of the international far right quickly filled in the blanks. 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 3: The Great Replacement, conspiracy, theorists insisted had been engineered by 39 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 3: Jews who desired to destroy the Arians who served as 40 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: their only competitors for global control, and the chaos that 41 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 3: would unfold as europe racially darkened Jewish people would spuzzily 42 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 3: complete their conquests of the world's politics and finances, and 43 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 3: would enslave a now intellectually backward global workforce. 44 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: Camu's racist fever dream ricochet around the world and left 45 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 2: behind it a trail of blood. The dread of the 46 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 2: Great Replacement animated a coalition of neo Nazis and other 47 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 2: white supremacists who swarmed to Charlottesville, Virginia, on the night 48 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 2: of August eleventh, twenty seventeen, for a quote Unite the 49 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: Right rally protesting the proposed removal of a statue honoring 50 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: Confederate General Robert Elie. Carrying tiki torches, with many wearing 51 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 2: matching polo shirts and khakis, the extremists paraded on the 52 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 2: grounds of the University of Virginia campus, chanting white lives 53 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: Matter and a phrase directly inspired by Camu's now six 54 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 2: year old polemic. 55 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 4: Why not, Why not Jews? 56 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: Why Not? 57 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 3: Jews? The next day, one of the racist marchers murdered 58 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 3: an anti racism activist, Heather haer Wig ramdat car into 59 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 3: a crowd of counter protesters the following year, in twenty eighteen, 60 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 3: of forty six you're old white nationalist who feared a 61 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: hypothetical Jewish and Muslim plot to take over America entered 62 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, and, 63 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 3: using a long rifle and three semi automatic pistols, sprayed 64 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 3: the congregation with bullets over a period of twenty minutes, 65 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 3: murdering eleven and wounding six. The synagogue had participated in a 66 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 3: program to aid migrants fleeing violence and poverty in Central America, 67 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 3: charity work that prompted the murderer, Robert Bowers, to post 68 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 3: online that such organizations quote like to bring in invaders 69 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 3: that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch 70 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 3: my people get slaughtered. 71 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: The Great Replacement Theory and its online promoters claimed a 72 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 2: high body count in twenty nineteen. On March fifteenth, a 73 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 2: twenty eight year old Australian man, Brendan Terrant, live streamed 74 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: his slaughter of fifty one Muslims and the wounding of 75 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 2: eighty nine others at Tu Mosque'es in christ Church, New Zealand. 76 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 2: Parant authored a seventy four page manifesto which he emailed 77 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 2: to newspapers and television stations, as well as New Zealand's 78 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 2: Prime Minister. He repeatedly referred to the Great Replacement theory 79 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 2: and expressed admiration for Anders Brevick, a Norwegian neo Nazi 80 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 2: terrorist who had killed seventy seven people in twenty eleven 81 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 2: because of his hatred for Muslims who have settled across 82 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 2: the European continent. In his manifesto, Tarrant praised American President 83 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 2: Donald Trump as a quote symbol of renewed white identity 84 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 2: and common purpose. 85 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 3: The murders inspired by the Great Replacement theory were far 86 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 3: from over. A mass shooting claimed three lives and wounded 87 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 3: three others at a synagogue in Powway, California, in April 88 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 3: twenty seven, twenty nineteen, and three others died in seventeen 89 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 3: more suffered injuries during an attack at the Gilroy Garlick 90 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 3: Festival in the same state on July twenty eighth. This 91 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 3: was the heartbreaking worldwide context in which Patrick Crusius of Allen, Texas, 92 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 3: took a fatal journey just six stays after the Illroy massacre. 93 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,119 Speaker 2: Crusius marked his twenty first birthday just the weekend before 94 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 2: the massacre. But for the unemployed young man, it was 95 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 2: not a happy occasion. He had grown up watching his 96 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 2: father's struggle with chemical dependency. High school classmates described him 97 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 2: as withdrawn, and one claimed he had been bullied by 98 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 2: Spanish speaking students. His parents divorced, and he moved to 99 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 2: his grandparents' home in a suburb north of Dallas called Allan, 100 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 2: a town with a median family income of more than 101 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty one thousand dollars and a history 102 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 2: of white flight. Unemployed Crusius spent a lot of hours 103 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 2: on eight chan, an online message board favored by white supremacists. 104 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 3: Crusius had given himself a grim mission he believed no 105 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 3: one else had the guts to carry out, According to 106 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 3: the Dallas Morning News. Late that Friday evening, he loaded 107 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 3: his humble twenty twelve Honda Civic with his laptop computer, 108 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 3: one thousand rounds Apollo point bullets ear muffs in a 109 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 3: semi automatic civilian version of an AK forty seven he 110 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 3: had ordered online from Romania. The Texas Tribune later reported 111 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 3: that as of twenty nineteen, Romania was exporting nine thousand 112 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 3: AK forty sevens to the United States every year. He 113 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 3: also brought heavily insulated gloves because that rifle, he would 114 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 3: later complain, quote, overheats massively. After about one hundred shots 115 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 3: or fired in quick succession, the college student sought to 116 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 3: start a war one he thought he wouldn't survive, but 117 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 3: that if others followed his example might save the country. 118 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: Head of his ten hour trek westward across the vast 119 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 2: Texas landscape, Crusius filled his gas tank and pumped himself 120 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 2: with energy drinks. He arrived in El Paso at about 121 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 2: eight am, first parking at a CSE's Pizza, which happened 122 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 2: to be closed. He then cruised around the border city 123 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,239 Speaker 2: of almost seven hundred thousand people, where sixty three percent 124 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: of the population primarily speaks Spanish at home. He eventually 125 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: stopped at the parking lot of a Walmart superstore nicknamed 126 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 2: the Juarez Walmart because of the large number of customers 127 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 2: who shopped there from across the Mexican border. About three 128 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 2: thousand people in all reestimated to be at the retail 129 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 2: outlet when Crusius arrived. 130 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 3: Crusius walked inside and cased the joint for at least 131 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 3: half an hour. He went back to his civic and 132 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 3: sat for a while in contemplation. Hungry, he went back 133 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 3: into the store, bought an orange, and then, after returning 134 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 3: to his car a second time, gobbled it. He then 135 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 3: posted online a two three hundred and eighty eight word 136 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 3: racist screed called The Inconvenient Truth. At about ten thirty eight, 137 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 3: Crusius stepped out of his car, weapon in hand, and 138 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 3: began massacring Mexicans and Mexican Americans. He described in his 139 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 3: manifesto as quote the Invaders. 140 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 5: This is an NBC News special report, and here's Jose 141 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 5: dis Bollard. 142 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 6: Good afternoon, and update now on that deadly shooting here 143 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 6: a busy shopping in El Paso, Texas. It happened at 144 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 6: a walmart near Colo Vista Mall this morning about ten 145 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 6: am local time. The scene is about seven miles from 146 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 6: downtown l Paso. 147 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 2: In about three minutes, Crusius slaughtered twenty three and wounded 148 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 2: twenty two others, in spite of expressing a wish that 149 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 2: he would die in the attack, Crusius surrendered. Police quickly 150 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 2: connected Crusius to his Internet dietribe, which he opened by 151 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 2: saying he quote supports the christ Church shooter and his manifesto, 152 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 2: referring to Brenton Terran. Crusius then pivoted to outrage over 153 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 2: Mexican immigration in the United States. Jason Whiteley of a 154 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 2: WFAA in Dallas reported on the manifesto's disturbing content. 155 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 7: In the letter, the shooter describes himself as a white nationalist, 156 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 7: a right wing extremist consumed by conspiracy theories. In short, 157 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 7: he thinks that white people are being replaced by immigrants 158 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 7: in this country. The letter states this attack is in 159 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 7: response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, 160 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 7: he wrote, not me. I am simply defending my country 161 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 7: from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion. 162 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 3: By the time of the El Paso massacre, eighty men, women, 163 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 3: and children had been murdered by extremists inspired by the 164 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 3: great Replacement theory in twenty nineteen alone. The carnage didn't 165 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 3: end at al Paso. On May fourteenth, twenty twenty two, 166 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,319 Speaker 3: a white suspect wrote a hateful rant he posted online 167 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 3: before murdering ten and wounding three African Americans in a Buffalo, 168 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 3: New York supermarket. He linked declining white birth rates to genocide. 169 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 3: On May sixth, twenty twenty three, Mauricio Martinez Garcia, a 170 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 3: Latino white supremacist who embraced neo Nazi ideology, drove from 171 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 3: his Dallas apartment to an outlet mall in Crusius's hometown 172 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 3: of Allen. Tattooed with a Swaska, Garcia shot to death 173 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 3: nine people, including a three year old, and wounded seven 174 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 3: others before being killed by a police officer. Garcia seemed 175 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 3: to be targeting Asians and Asian Americans Throughout this mayhem. 176 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 2: The political right has proven eager to blame everything but 177 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 2: the wide open gun laws in places like Texas, which 178 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 2: made it legal for Crusius to mail order a civilian 179 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 2: style AK forty seven. There was no interrogation of the 180 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 2: long history of racism or of repeated Republican rhetoric depicting 181 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 2: immigrants as dangerous, but there were other convenient excuses. In 182 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 2: an interview on the Sunday edition of Fox and Friends 183 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 2: shortly after the Opasser tragedy, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick 184 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 2: offered a menu of alternative explanations for the mass shooting, 185 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 2: such as video games. He also suggested that public schools 186 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: needed a healthy infusion of theocracy and reverence for the 187 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 2: stars and stripes. 188 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 8: Where are we as a country. I look at social media, 189 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 8: that the violence of just bullying people on social media 190 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 8: every day, and we turn our head and we allow it. 191 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 8: I look at on a Sunday morning when most of 192 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 8: your viewers right now, half of the country are getting 193 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 8: ready to go to church, and yet tomorrow we won't 194 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 8: let our kids even pray in our schools. We have 195 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 8: to look at ourselves as a nation. That's many factors 196 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 8: that go into the shooting, many factors, and it's not 197 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 8: a time to politicize at the time to look deep 198 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 8: inside of who we are as a country where we 199 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 8: no longer salute our flag or we throw water on 200 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 8: law enforcement and thank god we have law enforcement. 201 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 2: In recent years, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has described immigration 202 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 2: at the southern border as an invasion that is part 203 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 2: of a democratic plan to quote take over our country 204 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,319 Speaker 2: without firing a shot. In response to this alleged plan, 205 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 2: Patrick has said that Texas has a right to defend 206 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 2: itself from the threat of criminal invaders in a Fox 207 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 2: News interview in twenty twenty four. 208 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 9: For all those people who should come here legally processed 209 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 9: and vetted. In that group are hundreds of thousands, thousands 210 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 9: and thousands of criminals, murderers, molesters, gang members, drug dealers, carjackers, kidnappers, 211 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 9: you name it, they're part of this group and terrorist. 212 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 3: Patrick Crusius's panic about white genocide and the violent rise 213 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 3: of black and brown people against Western civilization had deep 214 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 3: roots in American culture. The Texas history of segregation, white 215 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 3: flight post September eleventh, Islamophobia, and the backlash to globalization 216 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 3: poison Crusius' particular worldview. But perhaps the biggest factor in 217 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 3: Crusius's murderous rampage was that he was taught to hate 218 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 3: and fear immigrants by the grown ups around him in 219 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,439 Speaker 3: the Dallas Fort Worth area. 220 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 4: But before we get into that, a quick eye break. 221 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 2: The fear of white distinction at the hands of so 222 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 2: called savages dates back to Puritan New England in the 223 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 2: sixteen hundreds, even as they lethally infected tens of thousands 224 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 2: of native peoples with bubonic plague malaria measles, smallplox, and typhus. 225 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 2: English colonizers slew thousands more in wars of conquests that 226 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 2: did not spare the very old, infants, that disabled, or 227 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 2: the unarmed. Puritans didn't just kill Native Americans. They often 228 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 2: tortured them first and desecrated their bodies with rituals of humiliation, 229 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 2: such as scalping. With each act of genocide, however, the 230 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 2: Puritans projected those war crimes on their victims. One Puritan leader, 231 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 2: William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, warned that 232 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: whites were in quote continual danger of the savage people. 233 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 2: A white habit of mind formed that relieved any guilt 234 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 2: the inhabitants of colonial America might feel about their bloodthirsty conquests. 235 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 2: The invaders became the defenders of the homeland, the outarmed 236 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 2: became the menace, and the vanquished became the progressors. In fact, 237 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 2: genocide became an act of self defense. 238 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 3: In the Lone Star state public school students are required 239 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 3: to study Texas history, Crusius would have been fed highly 240 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 3: distorted accounts of the Texas Revolution of eighteen thirty five 241 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 3: to eighteen thirty six. Although the content has improved since 242 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 3: the Civil Rights movement. For the most part, Texas history 243 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 3: textbooks have depicted Mexican soldiers as ruthless killers who, without qualms, 244 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 3: shot Anglo soldiers at the Battle of Goliad in Southeast 245 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 3: Texas and the survivors at the Alamo after they surrendered. 246 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 3: These same students were not typically taught that white Texans 247 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 3: massacred six hundred and fifty Mexican soldiers, most of whom 248 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 3: had already cast away their weapons after the Battle of 249 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 3: San Jacinto the engagement that ended the Texas Revolutionary War. 250 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 2: Until the late twentieth century, Texas students were also taught 251 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 2: that after the Civil War, the abolition of slavery and 252 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 2: the enfranchisemen of African Americans, dangerous chaos reigned. A sort 253 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 2: of racist myth was promoted in textbooks and classroom lectures 254 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: that Reconstruction, the state's first brief, failed experiment in multiracial democracy, 255 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 2: was actually a tragedy. According to the legend promoted in schoolhouses, 256 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 2: Reconstruction was defined not by increased literacy, improved infrastructure, in 257 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 2: the expansion of black human rights, but instead by political corruption, 258 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 2: wild government overspending, high taxes, out of control crime, and 259 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 2: endemic incompetence. During reconstruction, children were taught the United States 260 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 2: armed African American soldiers, who then harassed and assaulted harmless whites, 261 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 2: especially women. In short, across the curriculum, white students learned 262 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 2: that whenever black and brown people gained power politically, socially, 263 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 2: or economically, white people have been in mortal peril, a 264 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 2: lesson that implies the need to kill or be killed. 265 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 3: In the nineteen twenty nineteen thirties, white American school kids 266 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 3: across the country were indoctrinated into accepting eugenics. In their 267 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 3: biology classes. They learned that if they didn't produce large 268 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 3: enough families, whites would lose a demographic race to Jews, Italians, Russians, 269 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 3: and other immigrants pouring into the country. A best selling 270 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 3: American author in the nineteen twenties, Lothrop Stoddard, warned his 271 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 3: readers that unless trends were reversed, racially, superior Nordics, as 272 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 3: he called those from western northern Europe, might have to 273 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 3: fight a war of extermination to stem a deadly tide 274 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 3: of color. That when Gulf white people worldwide. 275 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 2: El Paso shooter Patrick Crusius grew up in Colin County, 276 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 2: which borders Dallas County on the north. The county's wealth 277 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 2: before the Civil War derived primarily from cotton cultivated by 278 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 2: enslaved labor. During reconstruction, klansmen organized in the county seat 279 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 2: of McKinney to terrorize African Americans into not voting. African 280 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 2: Americans continued to toil as farm labor after he RECNSCIS destruction, 281 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 2: and the white population kept them under tight control through 282 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: occasional outbursts of homicidal violence. In the summer of eighteen 283 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 2: ninety eight, local whites panicked when between thirty to forty 284 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 2: African Americans from out of town routinely gathered during a 285 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: rainy season in hopes to be on hand when the 286 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 2: weather cleared up so they could resume working. Ominous notices 287 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 2: began to appear around the town that said quote, mister Negro, 288 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: don't let the sun go down on you. On June 289 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 2: fifteenth of that year, klansmen warned black residents that they 290 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,959 Speaker 2: had no more than ten days to leave the area. 291 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 2: One family, the Sebrons, became the target of a violent 292 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 2: mob of vigilantes known as white cappers, who arrived at 293 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 2: their home in the middle of the night to punish 294 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 2: them for not vacating their home on Main Street. Anticipating 295 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 2: the arrival of the terrorists, Jake Sebrin stood by the 296 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 2: door of his home holding a Winchester rifle. When his 297 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 2: assailants realized he had a gun, they fired into the house. 298 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 2: Jake then attempted to shoot back, but he was unable 299 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 2: to stop the assailants from fatally shooting his pregnant wife, Laura. 300 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 2: The three Cebrian children were found screaming and clinging to 301 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 2: bed sheets near their mother's bloody body inside their home. 302 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 2: When it was all said and done, White Capper violence 303 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 2: continued for years across the state, targeting both African Americans 304 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 2: and Mexican Americans in an effort to maintain white supremacy. 305 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 3: Thirteen years later, on August eleventh, nineteen eleven, Colin County 306 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 3: authorities arrested a Farmersville man, Commodore Jones, for allegedly flirting 307 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 3: with a white telephone operator. A mob of three hundred 308 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 3: outraged white sized Jones from police custody, carried him to 309 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 3: the city square and hanged him from a poll in 310 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 3: front of the telephone office. In spite of this, bloody history, 311 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 3: Colin County got rich, and by the nineteen seventies transformed 312 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 3: into a major urban center. This development correlated with white flight, 313 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 3: as Dallas glacially succumbed to court order desegregation beginning in 314 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 3: the nineteen sixties, and after uprising and response to a 315 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 3: Dallas police saw officer forcing a twelve year old Latino 316 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 3: Santos Rodriguez to play a fatal game of Russian Roulette 317 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 3: in the backseat of a police squad car. 318 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 2: White flight fueled population explosion in Colin County, governed by 319 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 2: conservatives who kept property taxes low compared to those in 320 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 2: the metropolitan center to the south. Corporations followed this population 321 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 2: shift during the half century between the nineteen seventies and 322 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 2: the twenty twenties. Doctor Pepper, Friedo Lay, J. C. Penny, Curing, 323 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 2: Pizza Hut, and the Professional Golfers Association of America, as 324 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 2: well as Toyota, planted their corporate headquarters there. However, even 325 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 2: if whites moved to Colin County in the nineteen seventies 326 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 2: to avoid school integration and feared urban unrest, the new 327 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 2: corporations brought with them diverse work forces that include Muslims, Hindus, 328 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 2: and people of color from all around the world. In 329 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 2: two thousand, non Hispanic whites made up slightly more than 330 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 2: eighty one percent of the Colon County population. In twenty twenty, 331 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 2: that number was slightly less than fifty Asian Americans and 332 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 2: Asian immigrants made up almost seven percent of the population, 333 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 2: while Mexican Americans and immigrants from south of the Rio 334 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 2: Grand represented more than ten percent. All the ingredients needed 335 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 2: were present for a vicious racial backlash. 336 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 3: By twenty thirteen, the right wing in the entire Dallas 337 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 3: Fort Worth area was in full panic mode about immigration. 338 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 3: In twenty nineteen, Texas was believed to have the largest 339 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 3: Muslim population of any state, numbering about four hundred and 340 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 3: twenty two thousand, still less than two percent of the 341 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 3: total state population, but one of the fastest growing religious 342 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 3: demographics in the area. Two thirds of that population lives 343 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 3: in the Houston and Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan areas. Muslim 344 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 3: worshippers pray it as many as fifty five mosque in 345 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 3: the Dallas Fort Worth area, and the Muslim population in 346 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 3: north central Texas is believed to have tripled since twenty ten. 347 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 2: In twenty thirteen, Harry Lerosieir won election as mayor in 348 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 2: the Collin County city of Plano. Conservatives mocked him at 349 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: the time as the quote mayor from Haiti, in reference 350 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 2: to his birthplace. When affordable multi family housing was proposed 351 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 2: for the suburb of Plano, fear quickly spread that black 352 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 2: and brown, low income workers would fill those residences. Signs 353 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 2: appeared that said quote, don't Dallas my Plano, referring to 354 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 2: the largely black and brown population in the metropolitan center. 355 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 2: Republican politicians across the Dallas Fort Worth area began to 356 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 2: warn that some of the newcomers plotted to impose quote Sharia, 357 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 2: or Muslim law. The panic stemmed from the practice of 358 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:43,640 Speaker 2: many American mosques offering non binding mediation services, employing principles 359 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 2: from the Qur'an to couples in troubled marriages to resolve 360 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 2: bitter business disputes between Muslims and so on. Such arbitration 361 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 2: is not legally binding, and Muslim practices can't be imposed 362 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 2: on non Muslims because of the First Amendment of the 363 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 2: United States Constitution, which forbids the government from establishing any 364 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 2: sort of religion. Nevertheless, one Plaino State Representative Jeff Leach 365 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen introduced an anti sharia law in the 366 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 2: Texas legislature. His bill failed, but Governor Abbott later signed 367 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 2: a similar law in twenty seventeen. 368 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 4: Stay with us through this ad break to learn more. 369 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 3: Dread about Muslims and Sharia law dominated politics in Irving, 370 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 3: a suburb with a population of about a quarter million 371 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 3: people twelve miles northwest of Dallas for much of twenty fifteen. 372 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 3: In February, then Mayor Beth Van Dyne, who later became 373 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 3: a Trump appointee, characterized a Muslim mediation panel reportedly located 374 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 3: in the Islamic center of Irving as an Islamic court. 375 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 3: She introduced a resolution to the Irving City Council supporting 376 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 3: Leech's proposed legislation. It passed five to four, is reported 377 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 3: by a CBS affiliate in Dallas. 378 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 10: Irving Mayor Beth Van Dyne has accused local Muslim leaders 379 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 10: in the past of creating their own laws called Sharia law, 380 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 10: and adjudicating that doctrine bypassing the state and federal court system. 381 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 10: Catholic and Jewish faiths also have similar tribunals that are 382 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 10: presided over by faith leaders who act as arbitrators, but 383 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 10: the locally mom here in Irving says Islam is being 384 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 10: targeted yet not breaking any law. 385 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 11: They believe that we are trying to supersede the all 386 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 11: state laws, and that's not the case. We work within 387 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 11: the boundaries of federal and state law. 388 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 2: Anti Muslim tensions spread across the Dallas Fort Worth area, 389 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 2: ending in tragic violence. Anti Muslim extremists held a deliberately 390 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 2: provocative quote draw the profit art contest in Garland, Texas, 391 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,360 Speaker 2: a city of about two hundred and thirty five thousand 392 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 2: just north of Dallas, knowing that the images of Ma 393 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 2: Shamed are prohibited by Islam and were likely to inflame 394 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 2: the broader Muslim community. Two heavily armed Muslim men took 395 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 2: the bait that day, driving from out of state and 396 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 2: arriving at the scene of the contest on May third. 397 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 2: They then shot a Garland police car before being killed 398 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 2: with return fire. 399 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 3: Little more than four months at the Garland shootings, Irving 400 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 3: police arrested Achmed Mohammed, a Muslim of Sudanese background, on 401 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 3: September fourteenth, twenty fifteen, after the fourteen year old had 402 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 3: brought a digital clock built as a personal science project 403 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 3: to MacArthur High School. Proud of his creation, Mohammed showed 404 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 3: the clock to one of his teachers, who subjected the 405 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 3: boy to racial profiling. Fearing the clock might be a bomb, 406 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 3: the teacher seized the device and sent Mohammed to the principal, 407 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 3: who then called irving police. Officers interrogated the boy for 408 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 3: ninety minutes while his parents were denied access to their son. Meanwhile, 409 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 3: a militia inspired by Irving Mayor Van Dine's alarmist warnings 410 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 3: of our Sharia law showed up at two mosque and 411 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 3: the Dallas suburbs, wearing camouflage and mask and brandishing twelve 412 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 3: gage shotguns as a stock worshipper's going to prayer. 413 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 2: Islamophobia in the Dallas Fort Worth area even extended to 414 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 2: deceased Muslims. The Islamic Association of Collin County had hoped 415 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 2: to establish a thirty five acre burial plot in Farmersville, 416 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 2: a town of about four thousand people. When the Farmersville 417 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 2: Planning and Zoning Commission approved the plan in May twenty 418 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 2: fifteen without a dissending vote, furious opposition erupted. According to 419 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 2: a CNN report. 420 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 12: Farmersville is about twenty five miles away from Garland, Texas, 421 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 12: where in May police killed two Muslim gunmen who tried 422 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 12: to carry out a deadly attack at a draw the 423 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 12: prophet Mohammed event. One resident in Farmersville has even suggested 424 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 12: using pigs to scare away the Muslim group. 425 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 5: Peg and dump pig's bud and pig heads on a float. 426 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 12: They won't buy the land. 427 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 3: If I had my way, I would outlaw at Islam 428 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 3: in America. Farmersville resident Jack Hawkins declared that planning his 429 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 3: zoning commission meeting, quote, I would tear down every mosque 430 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 3: that was in this country. That's how I feel about it. 431 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 3: A local Baptist minister suggested that the cemetery would lead 432 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 3: to the establishment of the Madrasa, a Muslim religious school 433 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 3: that could become a training ground for extremists. He was 434 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 3: interviewed by CNN. 435 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 13: And I believe I'm a watchman on the wall, Ezekiel 436 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 13: thirty three see the incoming danger. 437 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 12: David Meeks is the pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, which 438 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 12: ironically sits next to a cemetery. He says the cemetery 439 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 12: could bring radical Islam to Farmersville. 440 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 13: I see the expansion of Islam that's going on all 441 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 13: over the world. Now it's come to my hometown. 442 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 12: And you see that danger in a cemetery. 443 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 13: Anytime you see the Islamic folks coming into a neighborhood, 444 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 13: I think, in my opinion, I think you can say 445 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 13: we could be less safe future than we are right now. 446 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 2: One hundred opponents of the cemetery crowded into a July fourteenth, 447 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, city council meeting in Farmersville, with some residents 448 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 2: expressing the fear that Muslim corpses would countaminate the local 449 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 2: water supply. Members of the local Muslim community and of 450 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 2: the Farmersville City Council suffered threats of violence. Facing a 451 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 2: federal lawsuit, the City of Farmersville finally relented and on 452 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 2: September twentieth, twenty eighteen, allowed the Islamic Association to move 453 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 2: ahead with purchasing the land needed for their graveyard. 454 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 3: This is the poison air. Patrick Crusius grew up breathing. 455 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 3: He didn't kill because of computer games, because they didn't 456 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 3: pray at schools he attended because a protest against police 457 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 3: violence or the collapse of respect for authority. Crusius wrote 458 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 3: that America is rotting, quote from the inside out, because 459 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,479 Speaker 3: of immigration, and that unless whites took up arms against 460 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 3: dark skinned newcomers, whites could become extinct. In his manifesto, 461 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 3: this insisted he embraced the great replacement theory before Donald 462 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 3: Trump became president. One can only wonder how many other 463 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 3: self appointed racial warriors might be inspired of violence by 464 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four presidential campaign that centered mostly on 465 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 3: the purported dangers of what Trump repeatedly called migrant crime, 466 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 3: including the eating of neighbors, cats, and dogs in the 467 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 3: spread of deadly diseases. Trump has even repeated the warnings 468 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 3: of early twentieth century eugenicists about the biological damage he 469 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 3: claims immigrants are bringing bad genes to the United States. 470 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 3: He says Trump's incendiary anti immigrant rhetoric has been compiled 471 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 3: by the new site Politico. 472 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 5: Americans have watched their communities destroyed by this sudden, suffocating 473 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 5: inundation of illegal aliens. I said, if you let them in, 474 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 5: it's going to be hell. They are vicious, violent criminals. 475 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 5: These are stone cold killers. They'll walk into your kitchen, 476 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 5: they'll cut your throat. These are people at the highest 477 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 5: level of killing that cut your throat and they won't 478 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 5: even think about it the next morning. These people are 479 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 5: roaming our country. They could go into a restaurant, they 480 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 5: can do whatever they want, and they will kill you 481 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 5: because they are wired that way. These people are animals. 482 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 5: Now they'll say, oh, that's a terrible thing for him 483 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 5: to say. No, No, these people are animals. It's in 484 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 5: their jeans, and we got a lot of bad jeans 485 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 5: in our country right now. 486 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 3: That tread a white genocide has been nurtured across centuries 487 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 3: of American history and has become one of this country's 488 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 3: major exports. 489 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 2: And with politicians like Donald Trump stoking fear about the 490 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 2: alleged quote enemy within and promoting mass deportations and the 491 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 2: idea of quote remigration, which is a notion with a 492 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 2: deeply fascist history, we are almost certain to see the 493 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 2: great replacement panic continue to boil under the surface of 494 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 2: a society with constantly shifting demographics. Ongoing economic insecurity will 495 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 2: feed into this, and the passive acceptance of gun violence 496 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 2: as the price for American freedom will certainly feed into 497 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 2: future racist violence. This is Stephen Monticelli. 498 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 3: And This is Michael Phillips. Thanks for listening. 499 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: It Could Happen Here is a production of cool Zone Media. 500 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website 501 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: Coolzonemedia dot com, or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, 502 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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