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Hillsboro (Pocahontas County), WV

Post by Will Williams » Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:39 pm

...Pocahontas County is the largest county in the United States by landmass, approximately equivalent in size to the state of Rhode Island. There are nine square miles of land for every county resident—just under 9,000 people live in the county, and fewer than 300 in Hillsboro. The county contains exactly one high school. Situated within the Allegheny Mountains, it has the highest average elevation of any county east of the Mississippi, and the largest concentration of public lands in West Virginia. Eight major rivers have their headwaters in the county, and more than 1 million tourists visit each year to camp and hike and fish and ski. The mountains are Technicolor green in summer and patchwork orange in fall.

It is the birthplace of literature Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck, and hosts Allegheny Echoes, a local annual Bluegrass and Old-Time music institute to which people from all over the world travel to study under local teachers, one of whom now performs with Old Crow Medicine Show. In the mid 1970s, it was home to more than 200 Back to the Landers, and it was twice the host of the annual gathering of the Rainbow Family of Living Light. The county holds within its borders the Gesundheit! Institute, a hospital combining traditional and alternative medicines founded by Patch Adams, and the artist colony Zendik Farm. It has a thriving farmer’s market, where people can purchase fresh vegetables with food stamps. Since 1978 [sic], it has also been the headquarters of the National Alliance, the white supremacist group headed by William Pierce. Pocahontas County is spectacular. Pocahontas County is isolated. Pocahontas County is conservative. Pocahontas County is radical.

Much of Pocahontas County is steeply inclined forest and unsuitable to farm. West Virginia split from Virginia in 1863 to form its own state, voting against secession and joining Union forces. Most of West Virginia never formed the massive plantations of its mother Commonwealth and had little interest in, not to mention ideological objections to, slavery. “Let’s talk about the fact that that West Virginia was created as a state because of race issues,” Campbell says “Race is a really big part of our history.”

Pocahontas County is 96 percent white, 1 percent black and another 3 percent Latino or mixed race. According to the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, “The first white settlers to the Pocahontas County area arrived in 1749 … By 1830 the US Census recorded 2,542 residents in the county, including 244 African Americans.” While most African-Americans arrived in the region as slaves, some were free, and others were granted their freedom upon the death of their owners. In the late 19th century, nearly 20 percent of West Virginia’s coal miners were black. In 1900, when railways reached Pocahontas County, African-Americans arrived in large numbers as part of rail line crews; still others worked in the industries of timbering or tanning.

After public schooling was mandated in 1863, one-room schoolhouses were built throughout Pocahontas County, including several schools for black children. According to annual reports from the state superintendent of schools, for the school year 1866-1867, there was one school owned by the county, which educated 888 white children. No black school was listed for the reported 88 black school-aged children. An expense report from the following year recorded expenses of $3,022.40, including $50 in salary and $6.34 in “other expenses” for one African-American school. By 1890 there were 72 schools including three for black students, and the report also mentions 38 male teachers, four of whom were African-American.

The West Virginia Division of Culture and Heritage again reports, “By the early 1900s, the public elementary level education system was well established in Pocahontas County. However, high school was not offered. For that, students had to leave the county or attend one of the several private schools which had opened in Pocahontas County in the late nineteenth century. There was no provision in the area at this time for African American students to obtain a high school education. Their education was limited to grades one through eight. If an African American student wished to pursue a high school education, they had to travel in order to attend Riverside High School in Elkins in Randolph County.”

When the Penny was vandalized, some residents were reminded of the county’s unequal history. Mike May, who grew up in town, responded to the incident by writing, “I was born and raised in Marlinton and left at age 18 simply because of the racist, sheltered, and uneducated thought process of more then half the county … Have you forgotten about William Pierce and the National Alliance? I haven’t forgotten being called nigger, coon, or half breed HUNDREDS of times throughout high school.”

In 1978 [sic], the National Alliance, a white supremacist group with Nazi ideologies, moved its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Hillsboro, for reasons unknown. The organization has been largely defunct since 2009, most people say, and recently the compound has gone up for sale. Its official website asks all correspondence to be directed to an address in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee.

“We grew up in a fearful place,” says Sarah Riley, friend of Blair Campbell and director of High Rocks Educational Corp., an innovative leadership program for young women from southeastern West Virginia of which Campbell is an alumna. “There are families in Greenbrier County who won’t send their kids to High Rocks because they’re afraid for their safety.”

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“I had nightmares about the National Alliance”
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“I had nightmares about the National Alliance,” she continued. “When they showed up, there was nothing we could do. We didn’t want to mess with them, we were scared of their retaliation.”...

http://www.salon.com/2015/01/19/this_mo ... came_true/

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Re: Hillsboro (Pocahontas County), WV

Post by Wade Hampton III » Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:26 pm

That is rather odd, considering most of the "Chosen Ones"
prefer the amenities of urban areas. Perhaps this Jewess is
out to make a name for herself by establishing the first
"holocaust museum" in the county. I am sure she would have
better luck with that, rather that fostering her sexual proclivities
upon the indigenous Caucasian population up there.

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Re: Hillsboro (Pocahontas County), WV

Post by Will Williams » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:36 pm

Will Williams wrote: Quoting Miss, er, uh, Ms. Eisenberg:
In 1978 [sic], the National Alliance, a white supremacist group with Nazi ideologies, moved its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Hillsboro, for reasons unknown. The organization has been largely defunct since 2009, most people say, and recently the compound has gone up for sale. Its official website asks all correspondence to be directed to an address in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee.
The reasons the Alliance moved to West Virginia from Washington, D.C. are known, just as the date of the move -- 1985 -- is known.

Dr. Pierce wrote about the reason for the move in a letter to his supporters dated 1 January, 1986:
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I and a few associates...settled on a rugged, undeveloped mountainside more than 100 miles from any large city. We wanted an environment unlike any which can be found in what America’s cities have become, an environment conducive to thinking about and writing about the problems now besetting our race.

To anyone living in Washington or any other major city, of course, certain aspects of these problems are painfully evident. One’s nose is rubbed in them every day of the week. The effect — at least, the effect on me —i s to generate a sustained state of barely contained rage. It is to make me so angry that I want to kill. Since that is not feasible, I write. Mostly I write about the things that make me angry: about the controlled media and the controlled politicians; about the perverse judicial system and the race-destroying churches; about official lies and official hypocrisy; about the malignancy of the educational system and the greed, cowardice, and irresponsibility of those with the power to make changes; about Jews and lawyers, feminists and homosexuals, sanctimonious liberals and mush-headed conservatives.

There was a time when I thought this rage such a good thing I made periodic visits to New York City [Ms. Eisenberg's hometown] — perhaps the only place in America more rage-provoking than Washington — in order to keep up my steam. But eventually I came to realize that more than rage is needed, that we must address ourselves to other matters than the manifest problems which so provoke us. We must better understand the failings in ourselves which made it possible for these problems to arise and fester unhindered. More to the point, we must learn how to cure ourselves before we can hope to eliminate the problems. This requires looking beyond the symptoms of our disease to its causes: above all, to its moral and spiritual roots. But when we are having our noses rubbed in the symptoms every day, it is difficult to look beyond them — and even more difficult to cool our rage enough to have clear vision.

So that is the reason — in addition to the increasingly onerous overhead expense and the lack of needed working room — we moved our editorial operation from a Washington suburb to a wild mountainside. We wanted to get far enough away from the problems about which we had been writing so that we could begin to see more of the forest, and see it in a new light.

To state it in more ambitious terms, we wanted to begin doing more than the analysis and criticism which has been the standard fare in NATIONAL VANGUARD. We wanted to begin developing some positive ideas about solutions, about new approaches to living. We wanted to establish a better basis for building the new consciousness — and eventually the new order from which a new people might some day arise — which has been proclaimed on its logotype as the aim of NATIONAL VANGUARD from the beginning...
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Re: Hillsboro (Pocahontas County), WV

Post by Will Williams » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:55 pm

Racist Hate Crime Shakes Hillsboro Community into Action to Spread Message of Tolerance

By ROXY TODD

In the middle of the night on January 6th, 40 year old Robert Ratliff drove along US 219 to Pocahontas County from nearby Greenbrier County. With green paint, he wrote two words on the side of the town's only restaurant, the Pretty Penny Cafe. To this town, those two words have had a ripple effect of emotions- from shock, to fear, to pain, and now, to love.
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N****r lovers gather outside Hillsboro bar for photo op and to yap about National Alliance bogeymen.

For years, The Pretty Penny Cafe has been a fixture of the the Hillsboro community. It's located in a historic building that was originally the local general store 100 years ago.

On a recent morning, the restaurant's owner Blair Campbell and the rest of the Hillsboro community awoke to see two words painted on the side of the Pretty Penny. Two words, “N****R”, followed by the word “Lover,” attacking Blair Campbell and her husband Charlan, who's originally from Jamaica.

Those two words expressed a hateful message about Campbell's marriage to a black man. “It's about loving somebody,” said Campbell. “And it's so hateful. And that's the problem. How do you do that with the word love in there? So... I just wanted to erase the first word and just leave 'lover.'”

Racism is not new to Hillsboro. In the 1980s, a neo-natzi organization called The National Alliance, moved its compound to West Virginia, just a few miles outside Hillsboro. But the Alliance's leader William Pierce died in 2002. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, after Pierce died, the Alliance, “once the ideological and criminal powerhouse of the American radical right,” had lost most of its members and its financial backing and is now nearly obsolete. The National Alliance, however small, is still officially based in the woods a few miles outside of Hillsboro, though its members have mostly all left the state.

Sarah Riley grew up a few miles away from the compound. She's white, but she remembers being very afraid of the people who were in the National Alliance, who she refers to as “skinheads.”

“I think a lot of people think of Hillsboro as a place where there's a lot of racism. Because the National Alliance used to be really strong here, which is a white supremacist group. I remember being really scared, being really scared of the skinheads, and of like, what if they came after you? And like, I just don't feel scared anymore,” said Riley.

“Twenty-five, twenty years later, I don't feel scared. I think it's a different time. I think we're a different place. I think we walk together. And I think it's time everybody in the world knew that,” said Riley...

Some people were stunned, saying they couldn't believe something like that could happen in Hillsboro.

But many people, like Hope May, says this community needs to have a real conversation about racial diversity. May is bi-racial and says she's heard racism as recently as last summer. When she was growing up in the nearby town of Marlinton, she lost several white friends when their parents found one of her parents was African American. It was worse, she said, for her brother.

“He doesn't come here at all because of the torment and the hell that he was exposed to here. He will not have his children in this community nor himself,” said May.

But Hope did decide to move back to this community to raise her children. And while she's noticed improvements, racism is still a problem for her bi-racial daughter, Gabrielle. Just last summer, a babysitter said racist words to her daughter. May found out about the verbal abuse from a neighbor, who had overheard the babysitter. She spoke with Gabrielle about the incident and was surprised by her daughter's complacence with the way she had been mistreated...

40 year old Robert Ratliff was then arrested under the state statute for a hate crime. Ratliff confessed, and said he had acted alone. He claimed that he had a personal grudge against Campbell that had nothing to do with racism. There is no evidence, at this time, to suggest he is not a member of the National Alliance or another hate group...

http://wvpublic.org/post/racist-hate-cr ... -tolerance

And, of course, there's absolutely no evidence that this Ratliffe boob is a member of the National Alliance, either. :roll:

Great "story," Roxy.
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Re: Hillsboro (Pocahontas County), WV

Post by Cosmotheist » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:32 am

40 year old Robert Ratliff was then arrested under the state statute for a hate crime. Ratliff confessed, and said he had acted alone. He claimed that he had a personal grudge against Campbell that had nothing to do with racism. There is no evidence, at this time, to suggest he is not a member of the National Alliance or another hate group...

http://wvpublic.org/post/racist-hate-cr ... -tolerance

Will wrote:

And, of course, there's absolutely no evidence that this Ratliffe boob is a member of the National Alliance, either. :roll:

Great "story," Roxy.


And if this "Robert Ratliff" actually was a member of the NA, then he wouldn't be one for very long.
Fools like this that play into the propaganda aims of those that wish to destroy our Race are "NOT
WELCOME" in the National Alliance.

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Re: Hillsboro (Pocahontas County), WV

Post by Will Williams » Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:40 pm

Bump! There was exactly one Alliance member residing on the National Alliance "compound" in January of 2015, yet the media Jews make out that there were NA "skinhead' bogeymen terrorizing the county, and likely behind this hateful "NIGGER LOVER" graffiti incident. No one ever retracted the accusations when it was found out it was not an Alliance member but a drunk from an adjacent county who had a grievance with the nigger lover who owned the tagged facility.

The queer Jewess fiction writer, Ms. Emma, appears to have packed on a few pounds since she wrote this fiction piece about NA eight years ago:https://www.theshipmanagency.com/emma-copley-eisenberg


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Will Williams wrote:
Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:39 pm
...Pocahontas County is the largest county in the United States by landmass, approximately equivalent in size to the state of Rhode Island. There are nine square miles of land for every county resident—just under 9,000 people live in the county, and fewer than 300 in Hillsboro. The county contains exactly one high school. Situated within the Allegheny Mountains, it has the highest average elevation of any county east of the Mississippi, and the largest concentration of public lands in West Virginia. Eight major rivers have their headwaters in the county, and more than 1 million tourists visit each year to camp and hike and fish and ski. The mountains are Technicolor green in summer and patchwork orange in fall.

It is the birthplace of literature Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck, and hosts Allegheny Echoes, a local annual Bluegrass and Old-Time music institute to which people from all over the world travel to study under local teachers, one of whom now performs with Old Crow Medicine Show. In the mid 1970s, it was home to more than 200 Back to the Landers, and it was twice the host of the annual gathering of the Rainbow Family of Living Light. The county holds within its borders the Gesundheit! Institute, a hospital combining traditional and alternative medicines founded by Patch Adams, and the artist colony Zendik Farm. It has a thriving farmer’s market, where people can purchase fresh vegetables with food stamps. Since 1978 [sic], it has also been the headquarters of the National Alliance, the white supremacist group headed by William Pierce. Pocahontas County is spectacular. Pocahontas County is isolated. Pocahontas County is conservative. Pocahontas County is radical.

Much of Pocahontas County is steeply inclined forest and unsuitable to farm. West Virginia split from Virginia in 1863 to form its own state, voting against secession and joining Union forces. Most of West Virginia never formed the massive plantations of its mother Commonwealth and had little interest in, not to mention ideological objections to, slavery. “Let’s talk about the fact that that West Virginia was created as a state because of race issues,” Campbell says “Race is a really big part of our history.”

Pocahontas County is 96 percent white, 1 percent black and another 3 percent Latino or mixed race. According to the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, “The first white settlers to the Pocahontas County area arrived in 1749 … By 1830 the US Census recorded 2,542 residents in the county, including 244 African Americans.” While most African-Americans arrived in the region as slaves, some were free, and others were granted their freedom upon the death of their owners. In the late 19th century, nearly 20 percent of West Virginia’s coal miners were black. In 1900, when railways reached Pocahontas County, African-Americans arrived in large numbers as part of rail line crews; still others worked in the industries of timbering or tanning.

After public schooling was mandated in 1863, one-room schoolhouses were built throughout Pocahontas County, including several schools for black children. According to annual reports from the state superintendent of schools, for the school year 1866-1867, there was one school owned by the county, which educated 888 white children. No black school was listed for the reported 88 black school-aged children. An expense report from the following year recorded expenses of $3,022.40, including $50 in salary and $6.34 in “other expenses” for one African-American school. By 1890 there were 72 schools including three for black students, and the report also mentions 38 male teachers, four of whom were African-American.

The West Virginia Division of Culture and Heritage again reports, “By the early 1900s, the public elementary level education system was well established in Pocahontas County. However, high school was not offered. For that, students had to leave the county or attend one of the several private schools which had opened in Pocahontas County in the late nineteenth century. There was no provision in the area at this time for African American students to obtain a high school education. Their education was limited to grades one through eight. If an African American student wished to pursue a high school education, they had to travel in order to attend Riverside High School in Elkins in Randolph County.”

When the Penny was vandalized, some residents were reminded of the county’s unequal history. Mike May, who grew up in town, responded to the incident by writing, “I was born and raised in Marlinton and left at age 18 simply because of the racist, sheltered, and uneducated thought process of more then half the county … Have you forgotten about William Pierce and the National Alliance? I haven’t forgotten being called nigger, coon, or half breed HUNDREDS of times throughout high school.”

In 1978 [sic], the National Alliance, a white supremacist group with Nazi ideologies, moved its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Hillsboro, for reasons unknown. The organization has been largely defunct since 2009, most people say, and recently the compound has gone up for sale. Its official website asks all correspondence to be directed to an address in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee.

“We grew up in a fearful place,” says Sarah Riley, friend of Blair Campbell and director of High Rocks Educational Corp., an innovative leadership program for young women from southeastern West Virginia of which Campbell is an alumna. “There are families in Greenbrier County who won’t send their kids to High Rocks because they’re afraid for their safety.”

************************
“I had nightmares about the National Alliance”
************************

“I had nightmares about the National Alliance,” she continued. “When they showed up, there was nothing we could do. We didn’t want to mess with them, we were scared of their retaliation.”...

http://www.salon.com/2015/01/19/this_mo ... came_true/

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Miss Eisenberg primarily writes fiction: http://cvillepeople.tumblr.com/post/349 ... around-the but also writes for Autostraddle, a website about queer female culture, thought, and literature. She received her B.A. in English and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Haverford College in Haverford, PA. She has lived in Hillsboro, West Virginia, where she was an AmeriCorps VISTA with High Rocks Educational Corporation,
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