- published: 24 Feb 2016
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White pride is a motto primarily used by white separatist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations to signal their racist or racialist viewpoints. Sociologists Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie L Shanks-Meile identified "White Power! White Pride!" as "a much-used chant of white separatist movement supporters", and sociologist Mitch Berbrier has identified the use of this phrase as part of a "new racist... frame-transformation and frame-alignment by (a) consciously packaging a 'hate-free' racism, (b) developing strategies of equivalence and reversal–presenting whites as equivalent to ethnic and racial minorities, and (c) deploying ideas about 'love,' 'pride,' and 'heritage-preservation' to evidence both their putative lack of animosity toward others as well as their ethnic credentials." Anti-racist critics argue that the idea of "white pride" is an attempt provide a clean or more palatable public face for white supremacy and white separatism; it is an appeal to a larger audience in hopes of inciting more widespread racial violence. According to Joseph T. Roy of the Southern Poverty Law Center, white supremacists often circulate material on the internet and elsewhere that "portrays the groups not as haters, but as simple white pride civic groups concerned with social ills".
We must be better off, we must be better off alone,
Than stuck here in this clever mess of a life.
But the ties we share are too strong to sever,
And it looks like we'll be together.
The story, the story has been around forever.
You just don't get it, you just don't get it at all,
It's less about you and more about the way that we say goodbye before we even say hello.
We even start to believe that it's the way that it should be,
Just ignore those thoughts of reason in the back of our heads.
(Forget them, forget them, forget them all)
You left me with nothing, you left me with nothing but the fast,
Beating of my heart.
Racing in the back, as your glance caught mine in the car,
That collided with mine.
Let's see how fast we can go.
You just don't get it, you just don't get it at all,
It's less about you and more about the way that we say goodbye before we even say hello.
We even start to believe that it's the way that it should be,
Just ignore those thoughts of reason in the back of our heads.