White Supremacist Richard Barrett Dead. Who Wants to Lead the Parade?

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Richard Barrett murdered in Pearl, Mississippi


The police, county sheriff, and federal investigators are all investigating the death of white supremacist Richard Barrett, lawyer, white nationalist and self-proclaimed leader in the skinhead movement.

Barrett's neighbors called the fire department when they noticed his home was ablaze. His body was found inside his Pearl, Miss., home on Thursday morning. Firemen discovered Barrett's body inside the home. Investigators initially speculated that it was likely the flames of hell that killed him. Okay, not really.

Although authorities found that Barrett was burned on 35 percent of his body, the preliminary autopsy revealed that he was stabbed multiple times in the neck and hit with a blunt object to the head. Vincent McGee, his black neighbor, has already been charged with the murder. The investigation is still unfolding.

In Barrett's 1982 memoir, 'The Commission,' he proclaim, "The Negro race... possess[es] no creativity of its own [and] pulls the vitality away from civilization." He also supported apartheid in South Africa.

Barrett called himself the head of the Nationalist Movement, a Mississippi-based white supremacist organization that advocates what it calls a "pro-majority" position. He was recently in the news supporting efforts to bring back Colonel Reb as the University of Mississippi's mascot, a mascot many say represented a white antebellum plantation owner.

He also made national headlines five years ago when he attempted to bring Edgar Ray Killen to a booth at the Mississippi State Fair. In 2005, Killen was convicted of murdering three civil rights workers during the 1960s. The murders became the inspiration for the 1988 movie 'Mississippi Burning.'

Barrett's fiery death seems a fitting end to a life consumed by hate and fear. Hopefully his legacy of prejudice and white supremacy will die with him. Good riddance.




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