Posted on 10/23/2005 9:59:10 AM PDT by Danae
Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement
Oct. 20, 2005 — Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.
They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.
Known as "Prussian Blue" — a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes — the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine.
"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx. "We want our people to stay white … we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."
Lynx and Lamb have been nurtured on racist beliefs since birth by their mother April. "They need to have the background to understand why certain things are happening," said April, a stay-at-home mom who no longer lives with the twins' father. "I'm going to give them, give them my opinion just like any, any parent would."
April home-schools the girls, teaching them her own unique perspective on everything from current to historical events. In addition, April's father surrounds the family with symbols of his beliefs — specifically the Nazi swastika. It appears on his belt buckle, on the side of his pick-up truck and he's even registered it as his cattle brand with the Bureau of Livestock Identification.
"Because it's provocative," explains April of the cattle brand, "to him he thinks it's important as a symbol of freedom of speech that he can use it as his cattle brand."
Teaching Hate
Songs like "Sacrifice" — a tribute to Nazi Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuhrer — clearly show the effect of the girls' upbringing. The lyrics praise Hess as a "man of peace who wouldn't give up."
"It really breaks my heart to see those two girls spewing out that kind of garbage," said Ted Shaw, civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund — though Shaw points out that the girls aren't espousing their own opinions but ones they're being taught.
On that point, April Gaede and Ted Shaw apparently agree.
"Well, all children pretty much espouse their parents' attitudes," she said. "We're white nationalists and of course that's a part of our life and I'm going to share that part of my life with my children."
Since they began singing, the girls have become such a force in the white nationalist movement, that David Duke — the former presidential candidate, one-time Ku-Klux-Klan grand wizard and outspoken white supremacist — uses the twins to draw a crowd.
Prussian Blue supporter Erich Gliebe, operator of one of the nation's most notorious hate music labels, Resistance Records, hopes younger performers like Lynx and Lamb will help expand the base of the White Nationalist cause.
"Eleven and 12 years old," he said, "I think that's the perfect age to start grooming kids and instill in them a strong racial identity."
Gliebe, who targets young, mainstream white rockers at music festivals like this past summer's "Ozzfest," says he uses music to get his message out.
But with names like Blue-Eyed Devils and Angry Aryans, these tunes are far more extreme than the ones sung by Lamb and Lynx.
"We give them a CD, we give them something as simple as a stick, they can go to our Web site and see other music and download some of our music," said Gliebe. "To me, that's the best propaganda tool for our youth."
A Taste for Hate
Gliebe says he hopes that as younger racist listeners mature, so will their tastes for harder, angrier music like that of Shawn Sugg of Max Resist.
One of Sugg's songs is a fantasy piece about a possible future racial war that goes: "Let the cities burn, let the streets run red, if you ain't white you'll be dead."
"I'd like to compare it to gangsta rap," explained Sugg, "where they glorify, you know, shooting n****** and pimping whores."
Sugg shrugs off criticism that music like his should not be handed out to schoolyard children, arguing that "it's just music, it's not like you're handing out AK-47s."
Perhaps not, but Shaw says it's the ideas in the music that are dangerous.
"When you talk about people being dead if they're not white," said Shaw, "I don't think there is much question that that is hateful."
A Place to Call Home
Despite the success of Prussian Blue and bands like Max Resist within the White Nationalism movement, most Americans don't accept their racist message.
Like many children across the country, Lamb and Lynx decided to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina — the white ones.
The girls' donations were handed out by a White Nationalist organization who also left a pamphlet promoting their group and beliefs — some of the intended recipients were more than a little displeased.
After a day of trying, the supplies ended up with few takers, dumped at a local shop that sells Confederate memorabilia.
Last month, the girls were scheduled to perform at the local county fair in their hometown. But when some people in the community protested, Prussian Blue was removed from the line-up.
But even before that, April had decided that Bakersfield was not "white" enough, so she sold her home, and hopes that she and the girls can find an all-white community in the Pacific Northwest.
That's like saying there are no degrees of love or any other human passion.
And it leaves out the rather obvious point that one should hate evil and those who do evil.
If you lack real talent, at least be controversial enough to make a news story. This is the first and last we will hear of these little 'darlings'.
But not equally condemned. That is the real point.
I also don't hear the NAACP, who did condemn the girls, condemning this guy:
Kamau Kambon a Raleigh activist and bookstore owner and a visiting professor at North Carolina State University says the solution to the problems faced by many blacks is the extermination of "white people off the face of the planet."
Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies at the Raleigh school last spring, told a panel at Howard University Law School Oct. 14 this action must be taken "because white people want to kill us," the Carolina Journal reported.
Don't they think this is detrimental to their message?
Well, yes, there are...as to behaviors implemented. As to the motive, once hate exists, yes, it's a consistent banality, in that sense. Degrees are measured in how the hate is acted out, in my view. But the state of hatred, all badly capable of all bad, yes.
If you lack real talent, at least be controversial enough to make a news story. This is the first and last we will hear of these little 'darlings'.
...until MTV does the reality show.
I'm not seeing a big market for these twits. I'm not gonna give them any more of my energy.
Cue the Patty Duke theme music:
They're fascists, adorable fascists...
Ok. You're just as un-American as they are if you give these little hitlerites a free pass because of YOUR bias against another race or someone else's offensive music.
That's what you're doing - you're giving ANTI-AMERICAN Nazis your "stamp of approval" because you find some other NON-RELATED thing that gives you pause and makes you equate them with rap music acts. Margial ones.
Not talking about "regulating", I'm talking about calling what is evil, evil.
See, maybe you don't know this, being you are so HEAVILY studying "black" artists to fuel your irritability, but Nazis are evil and anti-American. We even fought a war against them
. They were a system based on slave labor and racist philosophy, propped up by extremist Socialism.
Now, you are setting up straw men to give these little anti-American scum ("these little girls", yeah, right) some cover so you can point your shakey finger at some imagined slight from some idiot you dislike who HAPPENS to be a different race than you.
Excuse me, but what the heck are you doing on Free Republic? Last I checked, racism IS NOT conservatism, and is not at ALL able to be countenanced by us. Why are you giving racist Nazi scumbags ANY defense at all?
This thread is quite a find - a bunch of you have GOT to be disruptors - 'cause conservatives ain't racist. I hope JimRob gets his banhammer swinging on some of you. We don't need racists and their apologists here.
At the point the NAACP starts condemning anti-white rap music, I might have some mild interest in what the NAACP has to say about anything
I think this is the most disgusting picture I've seen posted on FR. Somehow I don't believe the relatives of six million Jews and millions of others exterminated by that "Smiley Face" saw him as someone to be revered by children.
How their parents can do this is beyond me. May the Lord have mercy on their demented souls.
Exactly !!!!
Not only the Black Rappers but many of their so called leaders.
I am not racist, I don't really care what 'color' you are.
Until that point, they are protected under the First Amendment
I saw the interview on the web. The toxic mother clearly pointed out that she was not a Christian, but a Nationalist. Her mindset is the same as Farrakhan, Hitler and Bin Laden; racist, they just want their own nation modeled after their own utopian fantasies. This is the kind of thinking that leads to millions of innocents being killed.
If I hear one Lefty whine that these people are right-wingers, I will have a hard time keeping my fist in my pocket to avoid making my point.
Good question and it's hard to tell. They were turned out of a county fair, but someone thought enough of them to book them in the first place, which is scary.
My bet is that this is pretty marginal stuff.
Maybe when they get older they can have their own radio show like the black racist Chuck D from Public Enemy.He's always a favorite guest of the guilty white liberals who infest our media.
County fairs often serve as recruiting grounds for this stuff. Someone tried to recruit me -- me! -- at a county fair until I was pulled away by someone who knew better.
Did I tell you that I have blue eyes and at 55+ still have blonde hair, but beard is a tad on the salt and pepper side.
Oh, so until then, you'll equate them to some numbskull on MTV spouting the same stuff that Howard Dean does?
Okay. Wake up. Here's the list: Coventry, London, Oradour-sur-Glane, Guernica, Rotterdam, Warsaw... shall I go on? Or are you still wanting to equate NAZIS with normal, run of the mill everyday idiots?
Half of the posters in this thread make me ashamed to be here. Never would have thought people would excuse Nazis here on Freep. Guess I was wrong.
(The name "cyborg" to me means complete love and incredible fun. I'm filled with joy)
Not for nothing, but that could easily be misread as something extremely odd and unnatural.
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