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RACISM
A White Man Wants to Convince Black People to Be Xenophobes
William W. Chip is a contributor to the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that uses misinformation to stoke xenophobia
A white tax attorney, William W. Chip, has started a non-profit from his home in Washington D.C. called Black America for Immigration Reform (BAIR). Despite the name, reform is not what he and his cohorts are after. They want to gain more acceptance of their xenophobic and racist ideas. By trying to bring the Black community in, they intend to disguise their motivations just as various hate groups like the Proud Boys have done in a bait-and-switch-style operation.
Chip is a contributor to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a leading hate group disguised as a think tank. The group is part of the John Tanton network of policy institutes that advocate for restricting immigration using the same rhetoric the Ku Klux Klan uses — bolstered by grossly manipulated data. He has routinely written, albeit baselessly, about how immigration could harm poor Black Americans while making racist posts on social media about non-white immigrants.
The language these groups use echoes that of John Tanton himself.
