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A facebook friend lives south of the federal prison, in a neighborhood he once called “the ninth most dangerous” in the United States. Someone sent him a flyer, not knowing it was about his neighborhood. The flyer purports to be an official notice from the city. Here is the text:
“City of Atlanta Public Notice: Please Do Not Dump Trash on White Supremacist Leaders’ Properties People have been dumping trash on the properties of well-known white nationalists Sam Dickson and Evan Anderson. Dickson has said that this dumping is a financial hardship, and it interferes with his plans of gentrifying the Lakewood area and forcing out people of color. He and Anderson are very busy organizing with other white supremacists, including attending white pride rallies and providing violent white supremacists with material support. It has been too costly for them to hire security at each of these properties, and it is not possible for police to watch them at all times. So we are relying on your honor and goodwill to refrain from dumping garbage or doing other property damage to these locations, such as breaking windows and spray painting ‘Nazis get out’. If the dumping continues, Dickson and Anderson may even be forced to sell the properties at a loss. Here is a list of Sam Dickson’s and Evan Anderson’s properties to please not dump any trash on.”
Atlanta attorney Sam Dickson is at the center of this fuss. The SPLC describes him as a “Klan Lawyer,” who buys properties using shady tax lien practices. The SPLC does not provide a source for the Klan claim. The only thing a quick bit of research uncovers is “representation of a Ku Klux Klan leader in a 1988 civil trial.” ( How Klan Lawyer Sam Dickson Got Rich is the 2006 SPLC tract. A search shows “Income: $50 – $59,999 Net Worth: $250,000 – $499,999.”)
Sam Dickson has been the target of activists before. … the Antifascist group in August flyered the neighborhood about prominent white nationalist Sam Dickson’s ownership of a house on Ridgeland Way. … Dickson, an attorney and real estate investor … has described himself in interviews and writings as a white nationalist, but said in emails that he prefers the terms “racial communitarian” or “racial idealist.” … The Atlanta Antifascists flyers, posted in public and delivered by mail to some residents, were headlined “Neighborhood Alert,” but did not suggest any particular action. A post on the group’s website criticized Dickson and other alleged residents as involved in real estate gentrification as a white separatist tactic, and that the group wants to debunk a liberal perception that racism is only a working-class belief.”
Does this justify a call for vandalism? In any event, Sam Dickson has not been quiet about his opinions. “As has been the case throughout my life, race was my primary concern. The liberal/left side of the political waterfront had completely jettisoned the sensible ideas of early liberals such as Margaret Sanger and Jack London. Liberalism had become simply a front for minority racism and anti-white hate. Little did I know that professional conservatism stood for the same thing. … The entire Left/Right or Liberal/Conservative divide is utterly meaningless and artificial. If white nationalism does not sever itself from the corpse of American “conservatism,” it is doomed.”
The interview cited above goes on and on, and makes a few good points. You can tell Mr. Dickson is a lawyer by the way he builds a case for his viewpoint. He can make it seem reasonable, with a lot of classical and historical references. You can use logic, and rhetoric, to make a case for anything. Like fighting racism, by dumping garbage in a predominantly black neighborhood.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Jack Delano took the pictures in October 1940. Schoolgirls carrying Aroostook potatoes on sticks a part of the parade on the day of the barrel rolling contest in Presque Isle, Maine.