Maddow: Racism 'A Persistent Infection' In White American Culture | Rachel Maddow

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OKAY. IF YOU DRIVE NORTH FROM SAN
FRANCISCO YOU CROSS THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE YOU WILL FIND
YOURSELF ON HIGHWAY 101 HEADED INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF
CALIFORNIA. AND IF YOU KEEP GOING STRAIGHT
UP THE HIGHWAY, 120 MILES UP HIGHWAY 101 FROM SAN FRANCISCO
YOU GET TO A PLACE CALLED UKIAH. 33 YEARS AGO ON HIGHWAY 101 JUST
OUTSIDE UKIAH, THERE WAS AN A ARMORED TRUCK TRAVELING UP THAT
HIGHWAY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND THE TRUCK GOT AMBUSHED.
IT WAS A PORTION OF THE HIGHWAY ON AN UPHILL CLIMB.
IT WAS FULLY LOADED, HAD TO SLOW DOWN AS IT WAS CHUGGING UP THE
INCLINE AND THAT'S WHEN THE ROBBERS STRUCK.
THERE WERE OTHER DRIVERS WHO SAW IT HAPPEN.
THAT WAS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND THEY DESCRIBED A PROFESSIONAL
OPERATION. TWO PICKUP TRUCKS WERE INVOLVED.
ONCE THE ARMORED CAR STARTED TO SLOW DOWN ON THE UPHILL CLIMB,
ONE OF THE PICKUP TRUCKS PULLED IN RIGHT BEHIND IT AND ANOTHER
PICKUP TRUCK PULLED RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT.
ONE RIGHT BEHIND AND ONE RIGHT IN FRONT BOXING IN THE ARMORED
CAR. AND THEN IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE
A WELL-COORDINATED ACTION, GUYS WITH GUNS LEANED OUT OF THE TWO
PICKUP TRUCKS AND THEY SHOT OUT THE TIRES OF THE ARMORED CAR.
AND THAT FORCED THE ARMORED CAR TO A STOP.
THERE WERE REPORTEDLY SIX AGAIN MEN ALL TOGETHER.
ALL OF THEM HAD THEIR FACES COVERED.
WITH BANDANAS OR SKI MASKS. THREE GUYS IN EACH OF THE TWO
PICKUP TRUCKS. AAFTER THEY BROUGHT THE CAR TO A
HALT, THEY USED HIGH POWERED GUNS TO SHOOT OUT THE REINFORCED
GLASS ON THE ARMORED VEHICLE AND THAT'S HOW THEY GOT INSIDE OF
IT. THEY GOT THE DOORS OPEN AND THEY
TOOK OFF WITH 10 TO 15 HEAVY BAGS FULL OF LOOT.
IT WAS ALL WITNESSED BY OTHER PEOPLE ON THE HIGHWAY.
BROAD DAYLIGHT. THEY DROVE UP 101 IN THESE TWO
PICKUP TRUCKS, DUMPED THEM NEARBY AND GOT IN ANOTHER
VEHICLE AND SPED OFF. IT WAS FAST, IT WAS
PROFESSIONAL. I WAS A VERY HEAVILY ARMED
OPERATION. AND IT TURNS OUT THEY GOT A HUGE
HAUL FROM THAT ONE ARMORED CAR HEIST.
$3.6 MILLION IN CASH FROM THAT ONE ARMORED CAR.
AND SOME OF THE MONEY DISAPPEARED, WAS NEVER ACCOUNTED
FOR AGAIN. BUT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FILED
ITS INDICTMENT THE FOLLOWING YEAR AFTER THE GANG THAT HAD
PULLED OFF THAT HEIST ON HIGHWAY 101 IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, THE
GOVERNMENT IN ITS FILINGS SAID THAT THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO TRACE
SOME OF THE CASH THAT WAS STOLEN FROM THAT ARMORED CAR IN UKIAH.
AND THE LIST OF WHERE THAT MONEY WENT CHANGED EVERYTHING.
$300,000 WENT TO A PARTICULARLY VEER LENT AND VIOLENT CHAPTER OF
THE KU KLUX KLAN IN NORTH CAROLINA, ANOTHER CLAN LEADER IN
CALIFORNIA GOT $250,000, THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE, A NAZI
GROUPED BASED IN WASHINGTON, D.C., THEY GOT $50,000, THE
ARIAN NATIONS UP IN NORTHERN IDAHO, THEY GOT $40,000.
THAT ONE HEIST, THAT UKIAH ARMORED CAR HEIST, IT WASN'T
JUST A HUGE MULTIMILLION DOLLAR ROBBERY.
IT WAS ALSO SUPPOSED TO FUND THE START OF THE NEXT CIVIL WAR IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE GUYS WHO ROBBED THAT ARMORED
CAR ON HIGHWAY 101 BACK IN 1984, THEY WERE PART OF A NEO-NAZI
GANG THAT CALLED ITSELF THE ORDER.
AND THE ORDER IS BEST REMEMBERED NOW FOR HAVING ASSASSINATED THIS
MAN, A JEWISH TALK RADIO HOST IN 1984, A MAN NAMED ALAN BERG.
BUT MOST OF THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE ORDER WEREN'T JUST MURDER
ANASSASSINATION WHICH WE REMEMBER THEM FOR NOW.
MOST OF THEIR CRIMES WERE ABOUT MONEY.
WHEN THEY ROBBED ARMORED CARS AND VIDEO STORES AND ROBBED
BANKS, ALL OF THESE ROBBERIES THAT THEY COMMITTED ALL UP AND
DOWN THE WEST COAST, THEY WERE ALL DESIGNED TO COLLECT CASH TO
ARM AND FUND A VIOLENT MOVEMENT THAT WAS GOING TO WAGE A RACE
WAR IN AMERICA, CREATING A WHITE'S ONLY HOMELAND IN THE
UNITED STATES. AND THESE GUYS IN THIS GANG, THE
ORDER, THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAD THAT IDEA AT THE
TIME. A YEAR AFTER THE ORDER WAS
INDICTED AND THE WHOLE GANG WENT ON TRIAL, IT WAS A MARRIED
COUPLE IN WYOMING, A MARRIED COUPLEED THIS ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL AND TOOK HOSTAGES. THEY TOOK 150 KIDS AND TEACHERS
HOSTAGE. IN EXCHANGE FOR THE LIVES OF ALL
OF THOSE KIDS AND TEACHERS, THE COUPLE DEMANDED A MULTIMILLION
DOLLAR RANSOM THAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD USE TO FINANCE A
WHITE SUPREMACIST REF REVOLUTION.
THE COUPLE THAT TOOK ALL OF THE KIDS AND TEACHERS HOSTAGE, THEY
BROUGHT IN BOMBS, HOMEMADE GASOLINE BOMBS.
A BUNCH OF THE KIDS THAT THEY TOOK HOSTAGE ENDED UP GETTING
BURNED. BUT THE ONLY TWO WHO DIED THAT
DAY WERE THE TWO HOSTAGE TAKERS. THROUGHOUT THE 1980s INTO THE
1990s IS THERE WERE REGULAR WHITE SUPREMACIST MEETINGS, THE
ARIAN NATIONS CONGRESSING UP IN NORTHERN IDAHO.
THEY HELD A BIG PIECE OF LAND UP THERE UNTIL THINGS STARTED TO
FALL APART FOR THEM IN 1988. A BUNCH OF THE ARIAN NATIONS
SECURITY GUARDS WERE OUT PATROLLING WHILE DRUNK ONE
NIGHT. THEY ENDED UP BEATING UP AND
SHOOTING AT A NAY TIFF AMERICAN MOM AND HER SON WHO HAD THE
MISFORTUNE TO PASS BY WHILE THE DRUNK NAZI GUARDS WERE OUT
PATROLLING THE PERIMETER OF THAT ARIAN NATIONS LAND.
THE LAWSUIT WAS BOUGHT ON BHOOF OF THE WOMAN AND HER SON AND IN
THAT LEGAL STRATEGY THEY BASICALLY CAME UP WITH A WAY TOO
BANKRUPT THE NAZIS INTO LOSING THAT LAND IN NORTHERN IDAHO.
THEY WERE FORCED TO VACATE AND THE TOWN'S FIRE DEPARTMENT GOT
PRACTICE AND SATISFACTION ON BURNING DOWN ALL OF THE SENATE
ZI'S BUILDINGS ONE BY ONE AFTER THEY HAD BEEN EVICTED VIA

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS A STUBBORN PROBLEM WITH
NEO-NAZIISM AND OVERT VIOLENT WHITE SUPREMACY.
IT ALWAYS SEEMS AMAZING WHEN IT SURFACES BUT WE'VE ALWAYS HAD
IT. AND OVER I'M THEY GO THROUGH
RIDICULOUS AND SELF IMPORTANT NAMES AND ITERATIONS AND
PATTERNS OF SYMBOLIC BEHAVIOR, RIGHT.
BUT OVER TIME IT'S ALL THE SAME BASIC IDEA AND AT ITS CORE IT'S
ALWAYS VIOLENT. IT'S THE ORDER.
IT'S THE CLAN. IT'S THE ARIAN NATIONS.
THE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY MOVEMENT. NOW THEY WANT TO BE CALLED THE
ALT-RIGHT. OKAY, WHATEVER.
THEIR IDEAS ARE NOT NEW. THEIR VIOLENCE IS NOT NEW.
AS A COUNTRY WE'VE WEATHERED EXTREME INCIDENTS OF THEIR
VIOLENCE. THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING IN
1985 KILLED 168 PEOPLE, INCLUDING DOZENS OF KIDS,
BROUGHT DOWN A FEDERAL BUILDING. TODAY A 23-YEAR-OLD EXTREMIST
FROM OKLAHOMA HAS BEEN ARRAIGNED FROM TRYING TO BLOW UP A BANK IN
NEW YORK CITY TO FOLLOW IN TIM THINK MCVEIGH'S FOOTSTEPS.
IN 2012 A KNEE NEO-NAZI, IN WISCONSIN, SHOT AND KILLED SIX
PEOPLE IN THE TRUMP L. IN 2015 ANOTHER WHITE
SUPREMACIST SHOT AND KILLED NINE PEOPLE, SHOT AND WOUNDED THREE
OTHERS AT AN LANDMARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH IN SOUTH
CAROLINA. HE SAID HIS MOTIVE WAS THEY WERE
HOPING TO START A RACE WAR. THEY'RE ALL HOPING TO START A
RACE WAR. THEY'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO DO
THAT. THIS IS A PERSISTENT INFECTION
IN WHITE AMERICAN CULTURE AND IT CAN BE QUITE FATAL.
AND WHAT I'VE LEARNED OVER THE COURSE OF MY 44 YEARS IS THAT
THIS INFECTION IN MODERN AMERICAN WHITE CULTURE DOESN'T
GET BETTER OVER TIME. AND APPARENTLY IT NEVER GOES
AWAY. WE ARE HAVING A PARTICULARLY BAD
OUTBREAK OF IT RIGHT NOW, THIS YEAR.
FEBRUARY, KANSAS, TWO INDIAN ENGINEERS SHOT IN A BARBIE A GUY
WHO WAS SCREAMING RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS SLURS AT THEM.
ONE OF THE ENGINEERS WAS KILLED, ANOTHER WAS WOUNDED AS WAS A
BYSTANDER WHO TRIED TO TO SAVE THEM, IN FEBRUARY.
THEN IN MARCH, MANHATTAN, A 66-YEAR-OLD AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN
MINDING HIS OWN BUSINESS, WALKING DOWN THE STREET,
ATTACKED AND STABBED TO DEATH BY A WHITE MAN WITH A SWORD WHO
DROVE TO NEW YORK CITY FROM MARYLAND SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE
THAT'S WHERE HE THOUGHT HI COULD GET THE MOST MEDIA ATTENTION FOR
HIS PLOT TO KILL RAD COME BLACK MEN ON THE STREET.
IN MAY, PORTLAND, OREGON O, TWO GIRLS ON A COMMUTER TRAINED
SUBJECTED TO ABUSE BY A GUY SCREAMING AT THEM AND
THREATENING THEM, PASSERS BY INTERVENE ON BEHALF OF THE
GIRLS, ONE OF THEM GET KILLED. THAT HAPPENED AT THE SAME WEEK
THAT THIS YOUNG MAN WAS STABBED AND KILLED THREE DAYS BEFORE HE
WAS DUE TO GRADUATE JUST AFTER HE HADS BEEN COMMISSIONED AS A
SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY.
THE YOUNG WHITE STUDENT WHO KILLED HIM WAS A MEMBER OF HARD
CORE RIGHT WING ONLINE GROUPS. AND THIS WEEKEND,
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, A WHITE SUPREMACIST MARCH AND
RALLY IS FOLLOWED THE NEXT MAN BY DESCRIBED AS A NAZI
SYMPATHIZER, DRIVING HIS CAR INTO A CROWD KILLING ONE,
INJURING 19 OTHERS. WE ARE EXPERIENCING SOMETHING
RIGHT NEW THAT IS NOT NEW BUT WE ARE HAVING A PARTICULARLY BAD
OUTBREAK OF IT THIS YEAR. IF YOU'RE COGNIZANT AND HISTORY
OF THE STUFF WE'VE GOT TO CONTEND WITH IN THIS COUNTRY
WITH THIS AMERICAN CULTURE AND POLITICS, THERE ARE TWO THINGS
THAT I THINK ARE GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN THIS PARTICULAR OUTBREAK
WE'RE HAVING OF VIOLENT WHITE SO
SPREM SCHISM. WE'VE GOT TWO THINGS GOING ON
THAT ARE UNUSUAL AND UNPRECEDENTED.
THAT JUST MEANS IT'S HARD TO PREDICT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
NEXT. EVEN WITH THE UNDERSTANDING OF
HOW THIS HAS PROCEEDED IN THIS PAST, THERE ARE TWO THINGS IN
WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW THAT HAVE DIFFERENT.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S DIFFERENT IS VERY PRACTICAL AND
ONE OF THEM ISS POLITICAL. THE PRACTICAL DIFFERENCE IS IT'S
A VERY VERY GRANULAR THING BUT IT MAY END UP BEING IMPORTANT.
IT'S THE PUBLIC IDENTIFYABILITY OF THE PARTICIPANTS.
ROBBING A BRINGS TRUCK IN 1984, THOSE GUYS WAR SKI MASKS.
IN HAYDEN LAKE, IDAHO, THAT WAS SO FAR OFF THE GRID THAT THEY
FELT COMFORTABLE MAKING THEIR HOMELAND OND OFF THE GRID BECAU
NOBODY COULD FIND THEM. IN WHITE POWER CULTURE AND MUSIC
AND GANGS, THERE'S ALWAYS AN ELEMENT OF COVERT ORGANIZING.
RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT THE HOODS ARE ALL
ABOUT. BUT WHEN THESE GUYS ALL TURNED
UP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ON FRIDAY NIGHT, YES, IT WAS THE
DIAGRAM OVERLAP BETWEEN STUPID AND THREATENING THAT THEY'RE ALL
STAND TLG IN TORCHLIGHT. THEY'RE ALL STANDING THERE
HOLDING HARDWARE STORE TEE KEY TORCHES WHILE YELLING THEIR NAZI
SLOGANS. HOWEVER YOU FELT ABOUT THAT
EMOTIONALLY SEEING IT, THOSE TORCHES ALWAYS MADE FOR SOME
REALLY GOOD LIGHTING IN TERMS OF SEEING WHAT THOSE GUYS ALL LOOK
LIKE. AND THERE WAS, HONESTLY, WITH
CELL PHONE TECHNOLOGY AND THE WAY WE COVE OUR INTERACTIONS,
THERE WAS ONE CAMERA THERE FOR EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING ON
SIGHT YELLING NAZI SLOGANS AND CARRYING A TORCH.
AND BECAUSE OF ALL OF THOSE RECOGNIZABLE FACES, THERE HAS AN
BEEN INTERESTING SIDE BAR OF NEWS WHERE THE NEO-NAZISAZIS AN
WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND SEPARATISTS WHO SHOWED UP ON TAP
AT THE RALLY, THERE'S AN INTERESTING IN SIDE BAR IN THE
NEWS WHERE YOU SEE THEM ALL PLUZING THEIR JOBS TODAY OR
BEING DENOUNCED FROM THEIR FAMILIES OR HAVING TO EXPLAIN TO
THEIR COLLEGE CAMPUSES WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY REALLY THINK AND
WHAT THEY'RE DOING THERE. THAT'S A PRAK DAL SOMEWHAT SMALL
GRANULAR THING BUT THAT WILL BECOME AN ONGOING WILD CARD FOR
THIS MOVEMENT AND FOR THIS ONGOING VIOLENT SCOURGE IN THE
UNITED STATES THAT WE FACED FOR SO LONG.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO SHOWED UP AT THAT TORCH LITERALLY
FRIDAY NIGHT WILL BE FOREVER IDENTIFIABLE AS SOMEONE WHO
SHOWED UP. THEY WERE ALL VERY WELL LIT.
THEY WERE ALL VERY VERY WELL PHOTOGRAPHED.
ANYBODY WHO WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, FLIRTING WITH WHITE SUPREMACY,
BECAUSE IT'S THE HOT NEW THING IN CONSERVATIVE POLITICS IN THE
TRUMP ERA, ANYBODY WHO WAS THERE ON A WHIM WHO IS FINDING
THEMSELVES AND WONDERING IF THEY'RE MAYBE A NAZI, THEY WILL
FIND FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE THAT THEY'RE IDENTIFIED AS A
NEOSENATE ZI OR A WHITE SUPREMACIST FOR HAVING BEEN AT
THAT EVENT. NONE OF THEM WILL BE ABLE TO
CHANGE THAT. YOU THINK HAVING AN EMBARRASSING
FACEBOOK FEED IS GOING TO AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO GET JOBS AFTER
GRAD SCHOOL. IMAGINE WHAT IT'S GOING TO DO
FOR TO YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE IF YOU'RE WELL LIT ON
CAMERA, WELL DEFINED, IDENTIFIABLE AND NAMED AS HAVING
BEEN ONE OF THE NAMES SCREAMING NAZI SALUTES AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA 2017. AND THAT ORGANIZED STRATEGY TO
HAVE BEEN DONE IT BY TORCHLIGHT, IT MAY HAVE BEEN GENIUS ON PART
OF THE ORGANIZER TO LOCK IN A LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO QUIT
LITERALLY SHOW THEIR FACES AT THAT EVENT ON FRIDAY NIGHT.
THEY'RE NOW IN IT FOR LIFE. SO THAT'S ONE WILD CARD.
THAT IS EGITIMATELY NEW IN TERMS OF HOW THE MOVEMENTS HAVE
OPERATED IN MODERN HISTORY. THAT'S THE PRACTICAL THING.
THE POLITICAL THING, THE OTHER THING THAT'S NEW HERE IS OF
COURSE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY THESE
GUYS THINK THEY HAVE A CHAMPION NOT JUST IN POLITICS BUT IN
MAINSTREAM POLITICS. DAVID DUKE RAN FOR GOVERNOR IN
LOUISIANA AND THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HOUSE MEMBER HER OAR
THERE WHO WAS WILLING TO ASSOCIATE HIMSELF OR HERSELF
WITH THE MALITIA MOVEMENT OR FLIRT WITH EXTREMES.
BUT WE'VE NEVER HAD THE VIOLENT RIGHT IN THIS COUNTRY ASSOCIATE
THEMSELVES SO OPENLY AND SO LOVINGLY WITH A SERVING
PRESIDENT. AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK
TODAY AND OVER THE WEEKEND ABOUT WHAT THAT ASSOCIATION MEANS FOR
THIS PRESIDENT AND HOW THIS
PRESIDENT TALKS ABOUT THAT MOVEMENT.
BUT IT'S WORTH LOOKING AT WHAT THAT CONNECTION TO A PRESIDENCY
MEANS FOR THESE NEO-NAZIS. WHAT IT MEANS FOR THIS THING WE
CAN'T GET RID OF, THIS PERSISTENT SOURCE OF VIOLENCE
AND EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM IN AMERICAN CULTURE.
WE'VE SEEN THAT SUBCULTURE WREAK SHAF ROCK EVERY DECADE WE'VE
EXISTED AS A COUNTRY. WE'VE NEVER SEEN ONE ALIGN WITH
A SITTING U.S. PR

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