The white supremacist conspiracy theory has a long history in the United States and abroad.

May 17, 2022
By Fabiola Cineas

Before the gunman shot down 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, (click here) at a supermarket on Saturday afternoon, he had stated his intent: “kill as many Black people as possible.” He reportedly wrote these words in a 180-page screed published online before he carried out what investigators are calling a hate crime and a racist act of violent extremism.

The 18-year-old white man, who claimed to drive hours to the zip code he targeted in Buffalo because it “has the highest black percentage that is close enough to where I live,” repeatedly lamented immigration, which he feared would result in “ethnic replacement,” “cultural replacement,” “racial replacement,” and ultimately, he wrote, “white genocide.”

This is the “white replacement theory” or the “Great Replacement” that has motivated similar mass killings in recent years — the racist conspiracy theory that holds that, through immigration, interracial marriage, integration, and violence, and at the behest of secret forces orchestrated by “global elites” (as the Buffalo shooter claimed) or Jews, white people are being disenfranchised, disempowered, and pushed out of “white nations.”

These ideas are not new. They have been documented for at least a century, the forces of white fear that shaped the national origin quotas of the 1920s. They have inspired mass attacks — and also smaller-scale instances of violence — that have claimed the lives of hundreds of people in the United States and abroad...

Former President John Tyler could still be impeached.

Dubbed “His Accidency” by his detractors, John Tyler (click here) was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor.

Born in Virginia in 1790, he was raised believing that the Constitution must be strictly construed. He never wavered from this conviction. He attended the College of William and Mary and studied law.

Serving in the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1821, Tyler voted against most nationalist legislation and opposed the Missouri Compromise. After leaving the House he served as Governor of Virginia. As a Senator he reluctantly supported Jackson for President as a choice of evils. Tyler soon joined the states’ rights Southerners in Congress who banded with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party opposing President Jackson.

The Whigs nominated Tyler for Vice President in 1840, hoping for support from southern states’-righters who could not stomach Jacksonian Democracy. The slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” implied flag waving nationalism plus a dash of southern sectionalism....

Harrison Ruffin Tyler at the age of 91 is iconic for the Supremacist/Nationalist belief that the USA is to be a white, Christian country. Below is a paragraph from the US Presidential page.

...When the first southern states seceded in 1861, Tyler led a compromise movement; failing, he worked to create the Southern Confederacy. He died in 1862, a member of the Confederate House of Representatives.

If we are to destroy statues dedicated to the Confederacy to sufficiently remove such ideas of coupe and treason from USA history, white people such as the former President Tyler has to be included in that priority to rid the public square of ideologues that embrace White Supremacy as the world order.

The really interesting tilt to this reality with Tyler is that he died in 1861. That is more than 160 years ago, yet, his grandson and great-grandson are still alive to carry forward the ideology that Tyler spoke. Even if they deny they agree with Tyler's perspective, there is a family heritage that causes concern and a focus to extremists that would see genocide as a resolve no different than Putin.

It is time for the people of the USA to end the bigotry and racism.

November 29, 2020
By Gillian Brockell

These days Harrison Ruffin Tyler, 91, (click here) is allowed only one designated visitor. Those are the pandemic rules at the nursing home in Virginia where he lives. So in September, when his last living sibling, brother Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. died at 95, he found out about it on the daily visit from his daughter-in-law.

“He understood what was going on, he was upset,” said his son William Tyler, 58. But “he doesn’t have any memory of yesterday, he doesn’t have any memory of today.”

Due to a series of mini-strokes starting in 2012, Harrison lives almost without time. It would be quite a change for anyone, but it’s particularly so for someone like him, who grew up steeped in family history. Harrison was raised in his grandfather’s hunting lodge; his grandfather — John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States — was born in 1790....