An Open Letter to the White Nationalist Movement From Billy Roper
A man should first focus on taking care of his family, before he can help save his extended family, his race. My health issues and my financial situation have not made me more effective at doing either, for the last year or so.
He should also be big enough to admit when he has not accomplished what he set out to do, and know when to change his tactics which have not worked. That is the purpose of this personal letter to the White Nationalist movement.
I have been active in racial politics for all of my adult life, formally so for over twenty years. I have paid my dues in several organizations, shedding my blood, sweat, and tears.
I have followed, and marched beside, men like Dr. William Pierce, Pastor Richard Butler, Tom Metzger, Matt Hale, and others. I have befriended members of the Order such as David Lane and Bruce Pierce.
I have given up virtually everything for the cause of White racial survival; careers, friendships, and family and romantic relationships. I have been physically assaulted and threatened by anti-racists, non-Whites, and just as often, by other White racialists who have differed with me over religion, or political ideology, or personal conflicts, or tactical disagreements.
For the last ten years, I have a been a leader of my own organization, White Revolution. I have, admittedly, risen to the top tier of the White Nationalist movement. I’m infamous. If you don’t believe it, just Google me.
I have been quoted in thousands of newspaper and magazine interviews internationally, and been in hundreds of television programs, documentaries, news broadcasts, and internet websites. The enemies of our race have called me everything but a White man, which is a mark of some success in itself, as a curse by the devil is a blessing.
Thousands of White men and women have passed through White Revolution, but I feel that I lack the stamina, strength, or wherewithal to effectively continue to provide the kind of leadership which would inspire a resurgence of followers in this organization. I say this, because I am able to admit that White Revolution has not been a success as a membership organization, in terms of membership recruitment and sustained growth.
If White Revolution was, as is arguable, a successful organization in the past, then that time has come and gone. As the leader of the organization, I am solely responsible and accept full responsibility for White Revolution’s lack of success as a membership organization. No one else, either inside or outside White Revolution, can be said to have been at fault or to blame. Many very dedicated men and women have tried their hardest, as have I, to make this organization a success.
But, the time has come to find a better model. I have found that model, and will step down from a leadership position of my own organization in order to work within a structure which has proven itself, through its longevity and infrastructure, to be effective and successful both as a membership organization and as a means of awakening our people.
There is an organization which has what I feel to be, pragmatically, the best program in terms of potential for successfully getting our message of White racial survival to our people. I have analyzed and respect their leadership principle. They are saying what America needs to hear, in a way that more White Americans are willing to hear it.
That is why, as a Christian Identist, I will be applying for association in The Knights Party, led by Pastor Thomas Robb. Those White Revolution members and supporters who are amenable to Christian Identity faith, and to the tenets of The Knights Party, I encourage to follow my example, and do the same. We will behave as humble servants of our God and our race, and begin as entry level associates and then members of an organization which has proven itself our better.
Those White Revolution members and supporters who, for political or religious reasons, cannot feel comfortable applying for association in The Knights Party, I encourage to remain active in the White Nationalist movement through association and membership with an organization which suits your own personal interest and style, or at least to create local and community associations and networks of racially conscious and patriotic citizens who share your concern for our people and our nation, and who will make beneficial allies for you in the coming storm which will change the face of our nation and the future of our people. Internet activism is not enough.
I have enemies in the movement, and among our racial enemies, who will sneer and jeer at this decision, and say that it is a mark of my failures as a leader, or my weakness, or is the result of past failures of judgement, of poorly considered decisions or alliances, or otherwise use it as an opportunity to gloat. Let them. I have never cared what they thought, and still don’t. I will offer an olive branch of peace to them, and then let them decide how to act. In making this decision, I am putting the overall, big picture, long term interests of my race above my own ego. I hope that they can say the same.
A lot of people in the movement talk about people needing to put aside their egos for the purpose of unity. They say all the time that there are too many chiefs, and not enough Indians. They say that there are too many organizations which constantly reinvent the wheel over and over, and microscopically divide and re-divide again the movement’s scarce human and capital resources.
After half a lifetime fighting for our people, I agree. I am humble enough to admit that I have not done as well as I could have. We have not done as well as we could have. I know that I can do better. I know that we can better. I am determined to put aside my ego. I did not get involved in this struggle for the benefit of my own status. If I had wanted status, I would have stayed in the mainstream and been successful as a college professor. Instead, I swallowed my ego and made sacrifices for what I saw as being the greater good.
Effective immediately, White Revolution will cease to accept new membership applications, and will suspend all recruitment activities as a membership organization while we undergo a period of reorganization and dismantlement of the organizational apparatus. I want to thank every single man and woman who has served beneath me in White Revolution or marched beside me in countless demonstrations, protests, and rallies over the years. This is not really an occasion for sadness, because I am not retiring from the movement. I am just putting aside my pride and my ego and doing what is best for my family, my race, and our cause.
Continuing to ask members and supporters to spend their time and resources working for an organization which is a dead end as a membership organization would be wasteful, wrong, and counterproductive.
However, you have not heard the last of Billy Roper, not by a long shot. I am not retiring. I’m just refocusing. For now, let me leave you with the encouragement to always try to place the interests of God, your families, and your extended family, your race, above any other loyalties. I remain, your faithful servant,
Billy Roper
P.O. Box 1721
Mountain View, Arkansas 72560
Cell: 479-747-1368
[Apparently Billy has been getting the same kind of advice I’ve been getting to “retire.” He decided to follow that advice. That is his choice and I’m not criticizing in any way. Me, I never will. – HAC]
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