Toward Tradition
Jeffery Hawks

Mr. Hawks: Below is a letter that I wrote to 11 US Jewish Senators back in 2003, without response. Are you willing to discuss the issues raised in our letter? Thank you. Louis Calabro, President

European/American Issues Forum
CW Kuhn, Secy. , Ed. Broneski, Treasurer, FP Williams, Sgt. at Arms
Stephen Mc Nallen, President
January 3,  2003

United States Senate
Washington, D.C.  20510 United States Senators:
Honorable Barbara Boxer,  Diane Feinstein, Norman Coleman,  Frank Lautenberg, Joseph Lieberman, Russell Feingold, Herb Kohl, Carl Levin, Charles Schumer, Arlen Specter, and Ronald Wyden:

Dear Honorable Senators:

The Associated Press,  reporter Frederick J. Frommer,  recently wrote an article (November 30, 2002) titled Jewish senators find friendly turf in upper midwest.  Reporter Frommer mentioned that there are now eleven members serving in the U.S. Senate who are Jewish.

Congratulations to all of you. There is no doubt that each of you have worked hard, won the respect of the voters in your areas, and succeeded in being elected to one of the most respected offices in our Government; a member of the U.S. Senate.

I am writing to you because I believe that a very serious situation has developed that you all should be made aware because in many cases it affects our school children. We are deeply concerned that if it is not addressed soon it may drive a divisive and deepening wedge between the European American and Jewish communities of America. We are also studying attitudes and programs of other groups in American who may contribute to this same problem.

As one of the founders of the European/American Issues Forum (E/AIF-1997) I served as President until May of 2002 when I stepped down for health reasons. During my five years as President I found an alarming number of organizations in America who reject the idea that European American (whites) are also victims of racial animus,  or who promote the idea that European American (whites) are the exclusive perpetrators of racial hatred and all other racial/ethnic groups are their victims. As you know, that is not true.

What’s frightfully troubling is that the most effective groups promoting that false notion about European American (whites) seem to have Jewish leadership at the head of their organization. These groups are promoting this false idea through books and videos, some of which are distributed to schools and are also used for hate crime training of police officers and during community educational efforts regarding hatred in our communities.

I understand that you may be quite troubled with my making such an accusation--however, I respectfully ask that you review the material I am presenting to you with a clear and open mind. I am prepared to explain and document all of these allegations. My experiences enumerated below are quite troubling.

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The organizations and brief comments about each follows:

1.  Ant-Defamation League (ADL)

(a) The ADL has published a book, along with Barnes and Noble, titled Hate Hurts- How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice  that is being used in our schools that stereotypes European American (whites) as the purveyors of racial animus and the perpetrators of hate crimes,  and all other groups are their victims. ( Attachment A).

(b). The ADL promotes the showing of a video titled Not in Our Home Town  that portrays European American (whites) in a similar manner.

(c).  The European/American Issues Forum has filed claims of bigotry and discrimination against the San Francisco ADL with the San Francisco Human Rights Commission; once in 1997 and again in 2002. 

2. Levi Strauss Corporation (Foundation).

(a).  The Levi Strauss Corporation (Foundation) funded a booklet titled Cause for Concern: Hate Crimes in America that recognizes all major racial/ethnic groups as victims of Hate Crimes except European American (whites). The booklet was written by the Leadership Conference Education Fund and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Washington D.C. based organizations. (Attachment B )

3. Leadership Conference Education Fund (LCEF) and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR).

(a)  Following President William Clinton’s 1997 White House Conference on Hate Crimes a major New York corporation provided a $100,000 grant for the LCEF and the LCCR to develop a web site to fight racial hatred.  They posted the booklet, Cause of Concern: Hate Crimes in America on their web site;   repeated requests by E/AIF to the White House,  LCEF and LCCR did not result in correcting the false stereotyping of European America (whites) on their web site.

4. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

(a)  The SPLC published a book titled teaching tolerance by Sara Bullard   that is being used in our schools throughout America that stereotypes European American (whites) as the purveyors of racial animus and the primary perpetrators of hate crimes,  and all other groups are their victims.  ( Attachment C).

b)  The SPLC published Responding to Hate at School along similar lines. See Hate Revisited article by John Horgan,   San Mateo County Times,  December 12, 2001. (Attachment D). 

Well respected African American Journalist Clarence Page’s article confirms that  the myth persists that hate laws were directed against whites to protect minorities.  [Washington Times, July 19, 2002 Page A17].  (Attachment D-1)

(c)  The SPLC is associated with a video titled The Shadow of Hate that is being used in our schools that stereotypes European American (whites) as the purveyors of racial animus and the perpetrators of hate crimes,  and all other groups are their victims. (Attachment E.).





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5. Intergroup Clearinghouse

(a) The Executive Director of San Francisco’s Intergroup ClearingHouse,  Jill Tregor was quoted as stating “white crime victims are using hate crime laws to enhance penalties against minorities, who already experience prejudice within the judicial system”.  (Hate Crimes--Criminal Law and Identify Politics--James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter, Oxford University Press 1998 pg. 17.).

What drives her opinion to a level of absurdity is that Intergroup Clearinghouse successfully applied for and was granted a $50,000 grant from the City and County of San Francisco to advocate for ALL victims of hate crimes  after she made that bigoted statement.  

6. Simon Weisenthal Center, Los Angeles

(a).  The Simon Weisenthal Center (LA) provided a video presentation on hate crimes at the Sept. 13-15 1999 Hate Crimes Symposium in Sacramento, Ca., hosted by the California State University, Sacramento, and California’s Police Officers Standards and Training Commission. The video almost exclusively depicts European Americans as the primary purveyors of racial animus and the perpetrators of hate crimes along with the usual overemphasis of Nazi and KKK themes.

Repeated requests to the Center for a copy of the video were met without success. Key note speaker at the Symposium was US Attorney General Janet Reno.  Governor Gray Davis and California Attorney General General Bill Lockyer were also guest speakers. I attended the Symposium. ( Attachment F).  

7.  Sojourn to the Past.

(a) Sojourn to the Past is a program developed by a San Mateo Union High School District teacher; Jeff Steinberg.  Mr. Steinberg offers high school students the opportunity of a ten day tour of locations throughout the south that were the scene of civil rights violations against African American.  It is clear that the content of his tour is the truth about civil rights violations against African Americans, however the problem is that it violates state law because it does not tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. He excludes civil rights violations against all other groups.

Mr. Steinberg’s program violates California moral  and education code sections that require that the material presented to students is to be objective and current. All racial groups have suffered civil rights violations, but the program excludes European Americans and other racial groups who were victims of racial animus.

The program is highly emotional and seeks to not only indoctrinate students but it seeks an outcome of making them into advocates for African American civil rights while condemning European Americans as the perpetrators of all racial animus. Those outcomes are outrageous and do not belong in our school system.  As a teacher, Mr. Steinberg should know better.

8.   AJCommittee and Affirmative Action.

“This time around, however, AJCommittee [American Jewish Committee] will draft a brief supporting the University of Michigan law school and undergraduate affirmative action programs now being challenged before the high court. The National Council of Jewish Women plans to sign onto a brief in support of the university's policies, and the Reform movement is likely to do so as well, said Mark Pelavin,  associate director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.”  http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.12.27/news3.html.



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The question is: will the AJCommittee also support proportional Christian and European American enrollment whenever they are under-representated in colleges and universities?

9. Facing History and Ourselves

Program Director  Jack Weinstein of Facing History and Ourselves was a guest speaker at Woodside High School, Woodside California,  as part of a program by the Racism Action Group organized by Sequoias Union High School District on January 31, 2000.  Mr. Weinstein presented a documentary video that in my opinion stereotyped European Americans as the primary purveyors of racial animus and the perpetrators of hate crimes and all other groups are their victims. That is simply not true.

Note:  The hateful National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), once called The National Conference for Christians and Jews*,  never seems to rest when it comes to infiltrating our schools with white bashing propaganda programs  It seems as though the Anti-Defamation League, who have been behind much of the white bashing in ours schools,  have now somehow gotten an ally, the NCCJ, to do the white bashing for them since the ADL's activities are monitored in this area.  Interesting, but we are aware of their sordid business.

*It is my understanding that they changed the name because Christians had little to do with involvement and control of the organization.

The NCCJ has recently successfully infiltrated San Mateo Canada Community College with white bashing propaganda, and now they are at it again at San Mateo Skyline Community College. They never rest.

Apparently they also sneaked the program into the San Mateo Union High School District, but the San Mateo County Times reporter seemed to avoid telling us which school. Why?

It becomes more and more apparent to any right thinking citizen that our entire education system has been infiltrated by white bashing haters like the NCCJ and that they seem to have control of our schools--from top to bottom. That's frightening.

President Rosa G. Perez of San Mateo Canada Community College may be one exception as she recently enthusiastically endorsed and allowed an exhibit at Canada titled "The European Americans Among Us--A Celebration of Diversity and Achievement" at their College Library that does not bash whites, it celebrates their achievements.

Ethnic bashing, regardless of who is at the losing end, should be made to stop in San Mateo County and in all of America. It looks like it is here to stay for a while.  We will continue to expose the haters and fight it.  Louis Calabro, President, European/American Issues Forum  (650) 952-8489
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Play highlights prejudice against immigrants By T.S. Mills-Faraudo, STAFF WRITER, SAN BRUNO

Take a miserable day at the Department of Motor Vehicles -- mixed with numerous prejudicial comments -- and you have a one-actor play about a Latino teen trying to get his driver's license in the United States.

Skyline College hosted "Wheels," a play produced by the National Conference for Community and Justice about the themes of immigration and xenophobia in the country.

Three of the performances Wednesday and this morning were open for Skyline students, faculty, staff and administrators. There also was a performance later today for high school students in San Mateo County.

Actor Kevin Sifuentes portrays 10 different characters throughout the play, which takes place mainly in a chaotic DMV office. But his main character is a teenaged Latino who is determined to get his driver's license.

"Freedom lives beyond those doors," the character says when he arrives at the DMV.

But he discovers that his so-called "freedom" isn't so easy to obtain.


After waiting hours in line, he's told that he must come back with his birth certificate to prove he was born in the United States.

Furthermore, he finds out about the different immigrant stereotypes by listening to cus-

tomers and workers in the DMV.

For example, a girl standing next to him complains to her friend via cell phone about all the immigrants in the DMV office and how they are "ruining it" for regular citizens in the country.

And a DMV employee tells Sifuentes that immigrants are making "a mockery of the country."

When he finally receives his learner's permit, he's pulled over by a police officer who proceeds to treat his brother like a criminal.

The play stirred many emotions from a crowd of mostly Skyline students at a performance Wednesday afternoon.

Many students said it was a good portrayal of how people talk about immigrants.

NCCJ volunteer Diane Flinn, who facilitated discussion on the play, said playwright Peter Howard actually interviewed people in Los Angeles to get ideas for the script.

Several students in the audience said they have had first-hand experiences with being harassed by police officers.

One student even said nothing was done when her brother was beaten up by officers and her father filed a complaint with the police department.

Skyline student Priscilla Schwartz said many people in the country don't try to embrace the differences in cultures and instead want immigrants to be like everyone else.

She said the play was a very realistic portrayal of what she has experienced.

"I thought it was very provocative," she said. "It was as if they took it out of my various experiences at the DMV. But there was nothing about it that surprised me."

NCCJ is a human-relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism. (Note: It is our opinion that the NCCJ is a white bashing organization promoting bias, bigotry, racism and unrest between ethnic groups--with European American whites as their target. L. Calabro)

Flinn said the play was not meant to provide solutions to any of the questions raised by the immigration issue.

"We're not here to say what is right or what is not right," she said. "We're here to provide some dialogue."

Staff writer T.S. Mills-Faraudo covers education. She can be reached at (650) 348-4338 or tmills@sanmateocountytimes