Leo Felton
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Leo Vincelette Felton (b. 1970, Silver Spring, Maryland) is a white supremacist who was convicted of bank robbery and plotting to blow up Jewish and black landmarks around Boston.
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[edit] Biography
Leo's father, Calvin Felton (b. 1930), is of mixed race and considers himself black, while his mother, Corinne Vincelette (b. 1931), is a former nun of Jewish descent who became involved in the black equality movement. His parents divorced when he was two and his mother announced herself as a lesbian and started a new life with a Jewish woman. He was institutionalised at age 9 by his mother (both he and his father agree that this was unnecessary) and thereafter he committed a series of petty thefts which he has attributed to a combination of institutionalisation and "aggressive black DNA".
[edit] White Power
Incarceration gave Felton an opportunity to observe how different races reacted when integration was enforced and societal stigmas over racism were not in action to civilise conduct. He claims that the whites in prison were under a continual state of siege by the other races, and that he was welcomed by whites, while blacks tried to rape him (his prison sentence was extended for attacking two blacks who made sexual advances). [1] In prison he became an organiser for white supremacist day groups, organising book reviews and exercise whilst obscuring his ancestry. He was imprisoned between 1990 and 2001 for the attempted murder of a cab driver during a road rage incident.
[edit] Bomb plot
Out of prison and married, Felton began an affair with Erica Chase, a 21 year old alleged white supremacist. Together they robbed a bank and forged money to buy materials to create a fertiliser bomb. It is unclear what the target was to be, but it is believed to have been a Holocaust museum in New England or the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, the latter named for an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) regional director. He also desired to assassinate high profile blacks and Jews such as Jesse Jackson and Steven Spielberg, as well as drawing cartoons of himself bombing the offices of the ADL. As is the case with many other white supremacists who become criminals, his motivations were to ignite a race war. An attendant at a doughnut shop spotted a counterfeit $20 Felton tried to pass him. He alerted a police officer, who then arrested Felton. Felton was sentenced to 21 years in 2002 for bank robbery, conspiracy to commit bank robbery and other crimes
After learning of his ancestry, many of Felton's comrades agreed to testify against him. He states that he no longer believes wholeheartedly in the cause that once became his reason for life, but he has not renounced or distanced himself from his former views. Reactions to the story of Leo Felton have been mixed, with strong support from many black commentators who claim that in a race-blind society all should be able to claim whatever racial ancestry one likes [citation needed]. He has faced disbelief or intrigue from many whites and constant mockery from both racist and antiracist groups. After separation from his former comrades, Felton wrote a letter in which he criticised his parents and said he is "ever an unrepentant enemy of the multicultural myth." [2]
[edit] See also
- Dan Burros Jewish neo-Nazi and klansman
- Frank Collin quondam neo-Nazi of a Jewish father
- Davis Wolfgang Hawke Jewish neo-Nazi
