Samuel Francis
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See also: other Sam Francises
Samuel Francis (April 29, 1947–February 15, 2005) was a nationally syndicated paleoconservative columnist known for his opposition to mass immigration, illegal immigration, multiculturalism, and his involvement in debates concerning other controversial issues of the day. He and many of supporters characterized him as a racialist, while to his critics simply called him a racist.
A former Washington Times columnist, Francis was dismissed from that paper in 1995 for remarks he made before the 1994 annual meeting of the American Renaissance, a racialist organization run by Jared Taylor, which were deemed racist by the management of the conservative Times. For many years the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, was the only mainstream paper carrying his column but they dropped it in 2004 after Francis wrote a column complaining about implicit miscegenation in a television advertisement. Francis vigorously denounced the advertisement, which featured sexual innuendo between a black football player and a white actress, arguing that "[t]he point was...to hurl a pie...in the face of...white racial and cultural identity." The advertisement, shockingly to Francis, implicitly argued that "interracial sex is normal and legitimate," an idea that Francis sees as "fairly radical." Francis went on to argue that "breaking down the sexual barriers between the races is a major weapon of cultural destruction." [1] (http://www.vdare.com/francis/041126_football.htm) Francis had also argued in a previous column that Barack Obama's election to the U.S. Senate was deplorable since it led to the end of an America "characterized by the white racial identity." [2] (http://www.vdare.com/francis/obama.htm) The Anti-Defamation League branded Francis an advocate of well-mannered white supremacy, but Francis' defenders maintained that he was persecuted for his politically-incorrect views.
Francis was an associate editor and book review editor of The Occidental Quarterly, a paleoconservative, white nationalist, and self-described "pro-Western"journal edited by Kevin Lamb and sponsored by William Regnery II. He also served on the board of editors of Modern Age, a quarterly publication of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute that bills itself as "the principal quarterly of the intellectual Right" and which serves as an important outlet for the expression of paleoconservative views. After his dismissil from the Washington Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Francis continued to write a syndicated column for VDARE, and spoke at meetings of the American Renaissance and the Council of Conservative Citizens.
External links
- An archive of Sam Francis' columns (http://www.vdare.com/francis/)
- Why Immigrants Kill, a recent article by Sam Francis (http://vdare.com/francis/041129_kill.htm)
Obituaries by Francis supporters
- Obituary by Louis Andrews and David Duke (http://www.davidduke.com/index.php?p=250)
- Obituary by Pat Buchanan (http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43179)
- Obituary by Dr. Thomas Fleming of Chronicles Magazine (http://chroniclesmagazine.org/www/News/Francis05/NewsSF021605.html)
- Obituary by Peter Brimelow (http://www.vdare.com/pb/050216_sf_obituary.htm)
- Obituary by Jared Taylor (http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2005/02/sam_francis.php)
- Obituary by Jerry Woodruff (http://manews.org/samfrancis.html)
- Obituary by Joseph Sobran (http://www.sobran.com/wanderer/w2005/w050224.shtml)