Western North Carolina Citizens for an End to Institutional Bigotry
PO Box 18640, Asheville, NC 28814 828-669-6677
Web address: www.main.nc.us/wncceib/
WNCCEIB's Letter to New York Times Editor concerning Kirk Lyons and the SCV (unpublished)
Re: Dec. 8, 2001
"Member's Racist Ties Split Confederate Legacy Group" by Kevin
Sack A-9
To The Editor, NYT
Th
controversy within the Sons of Confederate Veterans(SCV) over member Kirk Lyons'
connections to white supremacists says much about that organization today. (NTY
12/5/01) Not only was Lyons married in the Idaho Aryan Nation church by
the head of AR, as your story revealed, but the best man at his wedding was
client and former Grand Dragon of the Texas KKK, Louis Beam. Far from
being the objective outsider he purports, Lyons has been an insider in the
national white supremacist movement. For him to pretend otherwise appears
ludicrous to those of us who have tracked his activities over the last
decade.
The issue, however, is
not Kirk Lyons himself but the fawning over him by misguided members of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans who, by their association with him, are moving
quickly toward lumping their organization in with the KKK and other hate groups
.
Our web site (www.main.nc.us/wncceib/) provides
ample documentation of Lyons' anti-Semitic and pro-KKK actions to persuade any
prudent observer. Putting blinders on by the SCV to what many of its own members
are trying to say belies that organization's 'heritage' facade.
Sincerely,
Monroe Gilmour
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