Brianna Barnes and Amy Green STORMFRONT Brianna Barnes and Amy Green

VIDEO This is a news story about the website Stormfront and all about White Nationalism. http://youtube.com/watch?v=CdWamnvZ7X0

History Founder – Don Black Created – April 1995 Stormfront was created in 1995 after Don Black had spent his ’70s as a Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and after he was imprisoned for an attempted invasion into Dominica. He was taught in 1981 computer skills and he soon learned how to create his own websites. Germany has blocked some access to Stormfront state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Google banned the website from French and German listings in 2002 to avoid any legal liability.

Don Black Don Black was born in Athens, Alabama where he began at an early age to promote white pride. He began by passing out racially charged newspapers White Power and the Thunderbolt at his high school. By 1980, Black had taken over David Duke’s position as Klan leader in KKK. He started the first and most infamous hate site on the internet today. Black denies that Stormfront is violent and hateful, he describes it as just a forum for white nationalists.

Stormfront.org As of 2005, Stormfront was receiving over 1500 hits daily Today, Stormfront ranks in over 28,409 visits It has also launched a kids page that is run by Derek Black, son of Don Black, who is just 11 years old as well a women’s page In April of 2003, they were able to update their server hardware because of donations from members contributing a total of $6,000.There are over 3,315 registered Stormfront.org members The site offers topic forums and different categories for members to post and talk about.

Number of visitors over a three month span.

Beliefs White nationalism – the idea that whites may need to create a separate nation as a means of defending themselves. White nationalists say that they do not feel superior to other races and they claim that they want to avoid exploitation. They feel since other races have immigrated into the United States, the whites have to feed into the non-white demands. - Life has gone down hill since they have come. They believe that they recruit as many people as possible to make this a reality.

Membership Any one is able to join the website for free however they have to sign up and give their “support” whether for or against the movement. - Whenever you visit the website you are giving them hits. - They expect your support and donations *You must supply them with an email address, password, agree to the posting terms, and date of birth.

Stormfront in the News WNT: Hate, Kids and the Internet By Deborah Amos The article talked about Don Black’s son Derek and how he runs a children’s Stormfront page which can be easily accessed from the main website. And how kids can accidentally come across a White Supremacist website. - The power of suggestion on the internet and how it can easily affect America’s youth.

Gaining Support

Symbol Celtic Cross also known as the Odin’s cross First used by the National Front in England Not only is it used for Irish Catholic Church, it is also a symbol for the hate group of Neo-Nazi’s and White Supremacist It is not only the Celtic Cross but it has White Pride written around it

Propaganda Stormfront’s logos and fonts are a reminder of the Nazi Swastika and fonts used on Nazi posters Stormfront as well as amazon.com sell clothing promoting “White Pride” Stormfront offers hoodies, shirts, etc. with their logo WHITE PRIDE WOLD WIDE on the front.

A reproduction of the actual website THE Stormfront http://politicsone.com/documents/Stormfront-RonPaul.pdf A reproduction of the actual website

Works Cited http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/black.asp http://youtube.com/watch?v=CdWamnvZ7X0 http://politicsone.com/documents/Stormfront-RonPaul.pdf http://www.heathenworld.com/swastika/Thumbnails/stormfront.gif http://people.reed.edu/~gronkep/webofpolitics/fall2001/yagern/stormfront.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_(website) http://www.stormfront.org/whitenat.htm http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/black.asp