National Association for the Advancement of White People

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The National Association for the Advancement of White People is a white nationalist political organization in the United States founded in 1980 by David Duke. Its name is a takeoff on — and, some assert, a parody of — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The group self-purportedly advocates white separatism as opposed to white supremacy. It is headquartered in Metairie in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans.

The organization's views include opposition to affirmative action programs and a strong law and order stance, such as favoring the death penalty, three strikes laws and has been known for promoting anti-African American sentiments. Its official slogan is: "Equal Rights For All — Special Privileges For None." The slogan was presumably taken from the seventh of the Ocala Demands of the United States Populist (or People's) Party of 1890.

In the 1990s, Ronald Edmiston founded a chapter of the NAAWP in Hawaii and was one of the first to speak out against the Hawaiian sovereignty movement as well as state and federal policies and practices favoring Native Hawaiians. [1] Edmiston saw whites in Hawaii's society as disproportionately the victims of discrimination and crime. [2] At the time his views did not draw much support and the chapter is now defunct.

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• Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy, Oxford University Press, USA, 2001. ISBN 0-19-512716-1