Good luck in your efforts, Patrish. You're braver and perhaps kinder than I'd be under similar circumstances. I don't know if I could reach out in the way you are.

Being an ignorant Yank and thus knowing very little (okay, nothing) about the BNP, I went to their website to learn more from the horse's mouth. Vile little place, that. Not quite so bad as, say, a White Aryan Resistance site, but very similar in theme. And these people are getting a lot of votes these days, are they? *shudder*

Interesting how the FAQ file is at least half defensive replies to negative questions (is BNP racist? are you antisemitic? and such). Funny too how they claim not to be antisemitic, but use the usual "international financier" euphemistic language we all know and love. I was especially thrilled with the following gem in response to "Why are you against mixed-race relationships?"

We are against mixed-raced relationships because we believe that all species and races of life on this planet are beautiful and must be preserved. When whites take partners from other ethnic groups, a white family line that stretches back into deep pre-history is destroyed. And, of course, the same is true of the non-white side. We want generations that spring from us to be the same as us, look like us, and be moved by the same things as us. We feel that to preserve the rich tapestry of mankind, we must preserve ethnic differences, not 'mish-mash' them together.

Being the great-grandson of a mixed-race woman--white (primarily Dutch and Scots-Irish) and Native American (Baxoje or "Ioway"), this paragraph fills me with a revulsion and frankly, a rage, that is hard to put into words. My Hoover "White family line" that people like the BNC would seek to preserve and protect by having people like me not exist did just fine after this woman, Sarah Bailey, married into it. Indeed, as her husband was the grandson of a Wesleyan Underground Railroader, it was entirely in keeping with that family line's strengths and convictions for him to marry an outcast halfbreed woman without it even being a big deal. He had to shield her against racism from the community--and from her own family--but never from his.

Mind you, given all that, I've no illusions; I'm still primarily a white boy. But were I British, the BNC wouldn't speak for me in any way. The BNC can kiss my multiracial ass.

Chris