[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 41 Engrossed in House (EH)]
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H. Res. 41
In the House of Representatives, U. S.,
January 15, 2019.
Whereas, on January 10, 2019, Representative Steve King was quoted as asking,
``White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization--how did
that language become offensive?'';
Whereas a 2006 Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) assessment defined a White
supremacist as follows: ``White supremacists believe that the white race
is superior to all other races and was created to rule them. They view
non-whites as subhuman and usually refer to them in derogatory terms'';
Whereas the same 2006 FBI intelligence assessment defined a White nationalist as
follows: ``To be a white nationalist is to be pro-white. The domestic
white nationalist movement seeks to promote, honor, and defend the white
race. They believe the white race is under attack from Jewish interests
that dominate the government (referred to as the Zionist Occupied
Government, or ZOG), the media, banking, and entertainment industries
and act to the detriment of the white race. White nationalists view
multiculturalism, diversity, and illegal immigration as direct assaults
on the white race and race-mixing as akin to white genocide. They hope
to appeal to mainstream whites, believing that the majority of white
people do not understand the imminent or long-term threat to their race.
Many contend that a race war, often referred to as RAHOWA, or Racial
Holy War, is a certainty'';
Whereas White supremacy and White nationalism are contrary to the ideals of the
United States of America, which was established according to the
principle stated in the Declaration of Independence that all men are
created equal, a principle that was updated in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New
York, to include all people;
Whereas while our country has often fallen short of these ideals, patriotic
Americans have sought to form a more perfect Union by rejecting White
nationalism and White supremacy, embracing inclusive patriotism, and
welcoming immigrants from across the globe who have continuously
enriched our Nation;
Whereas Abraham Lincoln in an 1858 speech said of the Founders, ``Wise statesmen
as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and
so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the
distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the
doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to
life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up
again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the
battle which their fathers began--so that truth, and justice, and mercy,
and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from
the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe
the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built'';
Whereas Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., while recognizing that ``no other nation
can mean to us what our nation means'', condemned ``nationalism
perverted into chauvinism and isolationism'' as ``preached by * * * the
advocators of white supremacy'' and asked, ``Will we continue to serve
the false god of racial prejudice or will we serve the God who made of
one blood all men to dwell upon the face of the earth?'';
Whereas President Reagan observed in a 1988 speech, ``Anyone, from any corner of
the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American * * *
This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's
greatness. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our
people--our strength--from every country and every corner of the world.
And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other
countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into
dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow.
Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we're a
nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and
always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next
frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever
closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon
be lost'';
Whereas according to FBI statistics, hate crimes nationwide increased in 2015,
2016, and 2017, the three most recent years for which data is available;
Whereas the perpetrator of the shooting that killed 9 African-American
worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,
South Carolina, on June 17, 2015, was motivated by White supremacy and
White nationalism to carry out this act of terrorism, and stated that he
would ``be rescued by white nationalists after they took over the
government'';
Whereas the perpetrator of the shooting that killed 11 Jewish worshippers at
Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2018,
accused Jews of ``waging a propaganda war against Western civilization''
and ``committing genocide'' against Whites by promoting immigration and
refugee resettlement, and accused the President of being ``a globalist,
not a nationalist'' because of the ``infestation'' of Jews; and
Whereas Public Law 115-58, a joint resolution signed into law on September 14,
2017, rejects ``white nationalism, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan,
neo-Nazis, and other hate groups'': Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives once again rejects White
nationalism and White supremacy as hateful expressions of intolerance that are
contradictory to the values that define the people of the United States.
Attest:
Clerk.