the title of this is: interviewing craig nelson. i've never heard of him but the interview is well worth the longer bit of time required and you will learn much, especially about those who control us and how they do it;


Please introduce yourself to the readers.

My major in college was Western philosophy and, after graduation, at the suggestion of one of my professors, I took a position teaching English at a university in Shanxi province, China for the opportunity to immerse myself in a society informed by Eastern philosophy. I went for six months and stayed for two years. I left the US a naive, we-are-the-world, no-borders idealist and returned a hard-nosed, damn-there's-a-lot-of-people-here, post-immigration-epoch realist.

Back in the US, I began to look into the immigration numbers and was alarmed by what I found. I was even more disturbed by the seeming total lack of serious attention paid to such an important issue as immigration. I started a non-profit advocacy group called ProjectUSA with the stated mission of dragging the immigration issue into the center of public debate where it belonged. To that end we put up billboards advertising, for example, Census Bureau statistics on the impact of current immigration policy. There was a backlash, to put it mildly. Among those attacking me was a particularly nasty outfit out of Mobile, Alabama called the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Despite there being nothing at all racial about my work, the SPLC called the billboards racist and linked me to "Nazi atrocities". To the SPLC, my call for a time-out on immigration had to be motivated by racial concerns. That forced me to ask, if one's views on immigration are necessarily a racial matter, what are the SPLC's racial reasons for supporting mass immigration? The answer to that question opened my eyes politically.

I moved to Washington, DC, where for several years I continued my activism from an office on Capitol Hill. But after years of fighting that city’s own brand of corruption and deceit, made mosaics for a while, then moved to Baltimore. In Baltimore, at a surprising number of intersections, you will see young, able-bodied males panhandling among the cars waiting at the red lights. And even though Baltimore is a city where white males are only twelve percent of the population, they are almost one hundred percent of the panhandlers. It's a remarkable social phenomenon, really, and unlike anything I ever saw when I was their age. Curious, I began to pull over and get out of my car to talk to them.

The panhandlers were demoralized and mostly homeless. Some lived in group homes. Some lived with girlfriends or relatives. But, all of them were heroin addicts. In other words, they were all committing slow-motion suicide, numbing the pain as they marked time—selling their degradation, while they waited to die, to motorists stopped at the traffic lights of Baltimore. (Here's Josh and Dave). But their deaths don't count as suicides, according to official statistics-keepers, which makes the following statistic even more alarming: while white males are only 30 percent of the US population, we are, according to the Centers for Disease Control, a mind-blowing 70 percent of the nation's suicides.

It became obvious to me the country was experiencing a public health crisis, and it was getting virtually no attention. That led me to develop the Robinson Jeffers Boxing Club, a 13-week residency program combining healthy eating, exercise, and academic study including philosophy, literature, math, music, history, and, to help the men conceptualize a higher life, poetry. The core of the program was two hours of intensive boxing training every day but Sunday to help build self-respect, confidence, and brotherhood.

While the program was to be open to men in distress of any race, its focus was on the particular challenges unique to white males in modern America. A friend in DC thought the program was worth a try and had an empty 8000 sq ft grocery store in Lexington, Missouri available that he was willing to provide. So, a like-minded friend and I headed to Lexington to give it a shot. Unfortunately, we were shot dead in the water when a vicious hit piece on our effort was published January 24, 2018, by, once again, the Southern Poverty Law Center. And, once again, I was linked to Nazi atrocities and readers were left with the false belief that I and my partner, who is black, were secretly opening a whites-only club...........https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2019/11/interviewing-craig-nelsen.html