Pictured above, Steve Smith, local KSS director

The Keystone State Skinheads decided to introduce some REAL diversity to an NAACP-sponsored diversity forum in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The local KSS Director, Steve Smith, earlier called their bluff when the NAACP wanker announced the forum and put out the invitations. However, the NAACP wanker refused to formally invite them - so 25 KSS showed up anyway.

The most complete Jewsmedia account is provided by the Hazleton Standard-Speaker. Notice how the Standard-Speaker constantly refers to the KSS as "well-behaved", as if they were disappointed that the KSS didn't cater to the popular stereotype of skinheads.

Skinhead members attend regional diversity forum
Monday, 30 June 2008
By Elizabeth Skrapits
Staff Writer
WILKES-BARRE — Members of a statewide white nationalist group mostly behaved themselves at a diversity forum on Sunday, which explored some issues Northeastern Pennsylvania is facing due to a changing population. The Wilkes-Barre chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Luzerne County Diversity Commission sponsored “A New Day in Luzerne County: Building on the Strength of our Diversity,” in response to two recent incidents, according to NAACP President Ron Felton. Earlier this year, members of the Keystone State Skinheads posted fliers in neighborhoods from Pittston to Shickshinny. The fliers featured a photograph of a black man with a gun, and stated that residents should take back their neighborhoods from Philadelphia and New York drug dealers and gang members.

The KSS had nothing to do with the other incident. Nora Rynkiewicz, 18, of Factoryville, was charged with spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the doors of the Ohav Zedek synagogue on South Franklin Street in March. Although previously told they couldn’t speak at the forum, about 25 KSS members were among the approximately 75 people who attended. “We wanted to put a face behind the fliers,” KSS member Keith Carney explained.

He and KSS Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Regional Director Steve Smith said they tried to get people to see that some of the things said about the group have been distorted. White supremacist groups don’t want to recruit impressionable kids and commit acts of violence — they want people with “a good head on their shoulders” and don’t believe violence solves anything, according to Carney.

“We just want an open dialogue on race, and to have a safe community for our families,” Smith said.

City police and Wilkes University security guards were stationed at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts where the forum took place, but they didn’t need to intervene. KSS members were mostly quiet during presentations by Harrisburg-based officials: Ann Van Dyke, an investigator for the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; Harold Dunbar, assistant deputy attorney general in the Civil Rights section; and Martin Kearney, also of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. Dunbar defined hate crimes and also talked about institutional vandalism, such as the defilement of Ohav Zedek.

Van Dyke said Pennsylvania is in the middle of a rapid demographic change. “In Luzerne County, the hate crimes and other bias incidents are not unusual. They’re an egregious sign of the times,” Van Dyke said. “It’s fear of difference, and it’s something we all need to own.”

Whenever there is change, there is conflict, which can tear communities apart. But if its members move beyond fear, diversity can be a community’s strength, Van Dyke said. She urged people to examine their prejudices: how they developed and how to get rid of them.

“Whether it’s based on skin color or tattoos, watch your automatic assumptions,” she said.

The atmosphere grew slightly charged when KSS members spoke up during a question-and-answer session with State Police Heritage Affairs Officer Sgt. Dennis Wilson.

Carney said he thought fear is based on truth instead of ignorance — it’s not fear of change, but fear of what people are bringing in. He asked the speakers if they recognized a correlation between “the growing crime problem and the growing non-white population coming into our area.”

“No,” Dunbar tersely replied.

[Ed. Note: Dunbar's answer shouldn't be a surprise; after all, he is a professional nigger.]

KSS members participated peacefully in an exercise in which the audience was divided into four groups to identify the region’s strengths, challenges and solutions.

They found Northeastern Pennsylvania’s strengths include a strong work ethic, residents’ dedication to family and religion, colleges and universities, a sense of community and the ability to overcome adversity. Challenges include drug abuse, crime, the changing economic situation and a resistance to change.

eskrapits@citizensvoice.com

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Superb activism by KSS. They set up the NAACP, exposed their duplicity, then showed up and hoisted them on their own petard. Undoubtedly they sent people away from the event with a different impression of what white nationalism's all about.