NAT GEO RUNS STORY ON IMMIGRATION, QUOTES WHITE NATIONALIST, DOESN'T PROVIDE FULL DISCLOSURE TO ITS READERS

This is a picture of members of the white supremacist League of the South, and second from right is Dennis Durham. Not exactly the go-to guy on issues such as immigration when he’s part of something that doesn’t want any of the non-white version.

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National Geographic has published an article written by Sasha Ingber on the immigration debate titled, “Undocumented Children Fuel New Tension on Immigration in Virginia”. The article quotes the Chairman of the Maryland/Virginia Chapter of the League of the South Shane Long. The author neglects to mention what type of organization the League of the South is, or that Shane Long is a White Nationalist. Also, the article quotes a second person named “Dennis Durham”, which may or may not be this Dennis Durham. If the Dennis Durham quoted in the story is the same Dennis Durham who is a member of the League of the South, it begs the question, “What is going on here?”. Why would the author provide two points of view from members of the same organization (which the author also didn’t disclose the organization’s connection to White Nationalism) in different parts of the story but not mention the connection? Why would the author, Sasha Ingber not alert her readers as to who she is quoting in the story? This is the equivalent of free propaganda for the League of the South, which the League is welcoming:

“YFT, founded by former Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs, has not answered these public concerns, arguing that the organization must give its full attention to the children. That’s made some locals call their behavior secretive and suspicious, adding further fuel to the heated debate. Says electrician Dennis Durham: “We don’t know the health diseases coming across the border. There have been reports of MRSA, scabies, and now there are fears of Ebola.””

“”An Act of War Upon Our People”Shane Long, vice chairman of the Maryland chapter of the League of the South, takes a more radical position. Child or adult, legal or illegal—it doesn’t matter, he says. He asserts that “a large amount” of native Virginians and Marylanders share his belief that all of the above intrude on Southerners’ right to exist as a distinct people. “Any act or nonaction by the federal government to bring about such large influxes of non-Southern peoples is genocide and is viewed as [that] by native Southerners,” he says. “It is, in effect, an act of war upon our people.””