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Time of India
3 days ago
- General
- Time of India
'Return to the land': Group sets up all-white town in Arkansas; civil rights activists raise alarm
(Image credit: RTTL X handle) An extremist ethnonationalist organisation has established an exclusively white settlement in a secluded area of northeastern Arkansas's Ozarks and is reportedly considering expansion into Missouri. Return to the Land (RTTL), a self-described private membership association for people with "traditional views and European ancestry," launched its initial community in Arkansas in October 2023 and is now planning to enter Missouri, likely near Springfield, according to NBC affiliate KSNT. The organisation rejects mass immigration, multiculturalism and "forced integration" and excludes non-white, non-Christian and LGBT+ individuals, stating its members aim to distance themselves from contemporary society in favour of rural living. "You want a white nation? Build a white town?" RTTL's co-founder Eric Orwoll asks in an X video promoting the initiative. "It can be done. We're doing it." The organisation's primary settlement spans roughly 150 acres, houses 40 residents, and includes cabins, roads, wells, a community centre, and a schoolhouse. A second location opened nearby in January 2024, with plans for another Ozarks site and potential expansion into the Appalachian mountains listed on their website. In conversation with Sky News journalist Tom Cheshire, who visited RTTL's first settlement and observed activities including goat milk production, flute performances, family sports and swimming, Orwoll expressed longing for 17th-century colonial America. "I would probably feel more comfortable there because I'm white and that's the way this country was when my ancestors came there," he remarked, disregarding the indigenous population displaced by colonisation," he said. "Even if an individual has all the same values that I have, if they have an ethnic identity that other people share and care about, their children will also have that identity, and their children might not necessarily have all the same beliefs that they have," Cheshire further added. Regarding RTTL's growth plans, he said, "I would like to have more communities so that people in all parts of the U.S. have this as an option if they want. I would also like us to network and branch out internationally." Their expansion efforts include online fundraising, including a campaign offering financial incentives to parents of newborns to encourage population growth, which had reached half of its $10,000 target. Despite promoting rural living, RTTL maintains an active social media presence, sharing construction updates, nature photography, and children's book illustrations to promote their pastoral vision. Orwoll, who presents his project as a matter of First Amendment rights and private property freedom, has invested significantly in legal research. "The attorneys we've consulted believe what we're doing is legal," he told KSNT. "Americans have the right to freely associate and form intentional communities on whatever basis they choose." He believes RTTL's private membership association status exempts it from anti-discrimination laws like the Civil Rights Act and Fair Housing Act, though legal experts dispute this interpretation. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin responded, "Racial discrimination has no place in Arkansas or anywhere in a free society. These allegations raise all sorts of legal issues, including constitutional concerns. My office is reviewing the matter." Barry Jefferson, Arkansas NAACP chapter president, said: "I just truly believe that we don't need to get back to the Jim Crow era. We've been through that before. I think no one should be discriminated against because of their skin colour. "If you really look deep into the Civil Rights Act, it doesn't state that. I think they're misunderstanding what it states because there have been many organisations that tried to carve that out. That's not right," he added. The Anti-Defamation League has directly criticised RTTL, stating it attempts to resurrect "discredited and reprehensible forms of segregation." When questioned about racist elements within his organisation, including white supremacist content in its Telegram channel and his views on Adolf Hitler's "second coming," Orwoll maintained that conventional perspectives on the Nazi leader are "one-sided" and influenced by wartime propaganda. "I think all historical figures are complex, multi-dimensional," he said. "But when I say, 'you're gonna have to wait for that new Hitler to arise', I'm not saying you're going to have to wait for a new person to start a new Holocaust," Orwoll further said, adding to his statement that, "I am saying you are going to wait for a charismatic leader who is going to advocate for your interests because that's how a lot of people see Hitler."
The Hill
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Hill
‘Whites-only' community seeks Missouri expansion
A 'whites-only' group called Return to the Land (RTTL), derided by critics as racist and antisemitic, is looking to expand its reach from its base in northern Arkansas to an area near Springfield, Mo., a co-founder of the group said recently. The prospect of a growing 'whites-only' community — where members are evaluated based on European ancestry and where Jews are denied membership — is raising concerns among state and local officials and activist groups. RTTL, which describes itself as a private member association, began development in 2023 on its base in northern Arkansas, which sits on 160 acres of land. A co-founder of the group, Eric Orwoll, told Nexstar's KOLR that he hopes to expand soon to an area of land outside Springfield, and, eventually, expand to all 50 states. 'We want to ensure that White Americans who value their ancestry will have the ability to live among like-minded people in the future if they choose to do so, regardless of demographic changes,' Orwoll told the news outlet. He said RTTL plans to coordinate homeschool groups, health care networks, legal advocacy groups and more — all of which would be barred to people of color. 'Whites should have the ability to live among their own people if that's what they want to do, and mass immigration is quickly making that nearly impossible in many Western nations,' Orwoll said. 'If individuals decide to live in multi-racial communities, then they should be allowed to do so, but we don't want racial forced on us in every aspect of life,' he added. Missouri Democrats are pushing back on the effort. Chelsea Rodriguez, communications director for the state Democratic Party, called RTTL a 'hate group' and said they won't be welcome. 'Missouri families are fed up with the fringe extremism Missouri Republicans keep inviting into their communities. If this hate group tries to relocate to Springfield, they shouldn't expect to be embraced,' Rodriguez said in a statement. 'Missouri Democrats have a clear message for any hate group eyeing our state: This is our home. We were raised here, and we share the same respect for the Constitution and Second Amendment as our neighbors. Your hate has no place in our home,' she continued. State Rep. Jeremy Dean, a Democrat who represents part of Springfield in the Missouri House of Representatives, said he has 'no doubt' that groups like RTTL are 'emboldened by federal and state politicians who attack marginalized communities and fuel a climate where hate can grow.' 'Southwest Missouri has a racist past, but we've made progress and we're not going back. White nationalist groups have no place in our country, especially not here,' Dean added in a statement. Another Missouri Democrat who represents part of Springfield in Jefferson City, state Rep. Betsy Fogle, said the 'blatant racism embraced by Mr. Orwoll's group' is not welcome in there. 'Southwest Missouri is too beautiful to be ruined by a worldview so ugly. History has been very clear about the outcomes of groups like Mr. Orwoll's who seek to leave behind others based on the color of their skin,' Fogle said in a statement. 'I refuse to let history repeat itself in my hometown and would ask my colleagues to do the same,' she added. The group has faced pushback in Arkansas as well. Lindsay Beach Friedmann, Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) regional director of the south central region, said the move 'revives discredited and reprehensible forms of segregation' and should be illegal under federal and state civil rights laws, as well as under the Arkansas Fair Housing Act and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. 'We urge the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission, local elected officials, and law enforcement to act swiftly to ensure that Northeast Arkansas remains a welcoming and inclusive community, not a refuge for intolerance and exclusion,' the ADL said in a statement earlier this month. Orwoll pushed back on the ADL's remarks, saying his group embraces a 'shared ancestral values' and not violence or hatred, according to KOLR. He also brushed off concerns that the organization is breaking the law, noting RTTL is a private association and doesn't sell real estate. 'The attorneys we've consulted believe what we're doing is legal,' Orwoll said. 'Americans have the right to freely associate and form intentional communities on whatever basis they choose.' Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) does not share that view. 'Racial discrimination has no place in Arkansas or anywhere in a free society. These allegations raise all sorts of legal issues, including constitutional concerns,' Griffin said in a statement. 'My office is reviewing the matter.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Whites-only community plotting expansion to another state as its efforts to build a ‘white nation' continue
A far-right ethnonationalist group that has set up a 'whites-only' community in a remote part of the Ozarks in northeastern Arkansas is reportedly exploring the possibility of expanding north into Missouri. Return to the Land (RTTL), which describes itself as a private membership association (PMA) for individuals with 'traditional views and European ancestry,' opened its first community in Arkansas in October 2023 and is now considering entering a second state, likely near Springfield, according to NBC's regional affiliate KSNT. The group is opposed to mass immigration, multiculturalism and 'forced integration' and reportedly does not welcome non-white, non-Christian or LGBT+ people, explaining that its members are seeking to 'separate ourselves from a failing modern society' and return to pastoral living. 'You want a white nation? Build a white town?' RTTL's co-founder Eric Orwoll asks in an X video promoting the initiative. 'It can be done. We're doing it.' RTTL's flagship community spans approximately 150 acres of land, is home to 40 inhabitants, and features its own cabins, roads, wells, a community center, and a schoolhouse. It was followed by a second site nearby that opened in January this year, with the group listing a further Ozarks site as upcoming and aspirations to move into the Appalachian mountains on its website. Speaking to Sky News journalist Tom Cheshire – who visited RTTL's first 'fortress for the white race' and found a world of fresh goat's milk, flute recitals, family kickball games and creek swimming – Orwoll expressed a nostalgia for the America of the 17th century encountered by the Virginia settlers. 'I would probably feel more comfortable there because I'm white and that's the way this country was when my ancestors came there,' he said, overlooking the Native Americans soon to be displaced by the colonists. 'Even if an individual has all the same values that I have, if they have an ethnic identity that other people share and care about, their children will also have that identity, and their children might not necessarily have all the same beliefs that they have.' On his ambitions for RTTL's expansion, he said: 'I would like to have more communities so that people in all parts of the U.S. have this as an option if they want. I would also like us to network and branch out internationally.' Part of that branching out includes online fundraising campaigns, one of which seeks donations to enable the group to pay 'cash rewards to parents of newborns as a means to incentivize population growth,' which was halfway towards its modest $10,000 goal at the time of writing. For a back-to-nature movement, RTTL is surprisingly active on social media, posting updates on the progress of its construction projects, wildlife photography, and even illustrations from children's books to promote its vision of rural idyll. Orwoll – who frames the debate surrounding his project as a 'First Amendment issue' and a 'freedom issue' about 'doing what we want on our own private land' – has invested tens of thousands of dollars into research on its legality. 'The attorneys we've consulted believe what we're doing is legal,' he told KSNT. 'Americans have the right to freely associate and form intentional communities on whatever basis they choose.' Orwoll believes its PMA status exempts it from legislation like the Civil Rights Act or the Fair Housing Act, which mandate equality and outlaw discrimination, although that is by no means an opinion shared by all experts. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, for one, said in a statement responding to RTTL's practices: 'Racial discrimination has no place in Arkansas or anywhere in a free society. These allegations raise all sorts of legal issues, including constitutional concerns. My office is reviewing the matter.' Barry Jefferson, president of the Arkansas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said: 'I just truly believe that we don't need to get back to the Jim Crow era. We've been through that before. I think no one should be discriminated against because of their skin colour. 'If you really look deep into the Civil Rights Act, it doesn't state that. I think they're misunderstanding what it states because there have been many organisations that tried to carve that out. That's not right.' The Anti-Defamation League has been even more blunt about RTTL, accusing it of trying to revive 'discredited and reprehensible forms of segregation.' Asked by Sky about the more overtly racist aspects of his organization, including the sharing of white supremacist slogans in its Telegram channel and his own thoughts on a 'second coming' of Adolf Hitler, Orwoll did not shy away, saying conventional opinion on the Nazi leader is 'one-sided' and informed by Second World War propaganda. 'I think all historical figures are complex, multi-dimensional,' he said. 'But when I say, 'you're gonna have to wait for that new Hitler to arise', I'm not saying you're going to have to wait for a new person to start a new Holocaust. 'I am saying you are going to wait for a charismatic leader who is going to advocate for your interests because that's how a lot of people see Hitler.' Solve the daily Crossword
The Independent
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Whites-only community plotting expansion to another state as its efforts to build a ‘white nation' continue
A far-right ethnonationalist group that has set up a 'whites-only' community in a remote part of the Ozarks in northeastern Arkansas is reportedly exploring the possibility of expanding north into Missouri. Return to the Land (RTTL), which describes itself as a private membership association (PMA) for individuals with 'traditional views and European ancestry,' opened its first community in Arkansas in October 2023 and is now considering entering a second state, according to TMZ. The group is opposed to mass immigration, multiculturalism and 'forced integration' and reportedly does not welcome non-white, non-Christian or LGBT+ people, explaining that its members are seeking to 'separate ourselves from a failing modern society' and return to pastoral living. 'You want a white nation? Build a white town?' RTTL's co-founder Eric Orwoll asks in an X video promoting the initiative. 'It can be done. We're doing it.' RTTL's flagship community spans 150 acres of land, is home to approximately 40 inhabitants, and features its own cabins, roads, wells, a community center, and a schoolhouse. It was followed by a second site nearby that opened in January this year, with the group listing a further Ozarks site as upcoming and aspirations to move into the Appalachian mountains on its website. Speaking to Sky News journalist Tom Cheshire – who visited RTTL's first 'fortress for the white race' and found a world of fresh goat's milk, flute recitals, family kickball games and creek swimming – Orwoll expressed a nostalgia for the America of the 17th century encountered by the Virginia settlers. 'I would probably feel more comfortable there because I'm white and that's the way this country was when my ancestors came there,' he said, overlooking the Native Americans soon to be displaced by the colonists. 'Even if an individual has all the same values that I have, if they have an ethnic identity that other people share and care about, their children will also have that identity, and their children might not necessarily have all the same beliefs that they have.' On his ambitions for RTTL's expansion, he said: 'I would like to have more communities so that people in all parts of the U.S. have this as an option if they want. I would also like us to network and branch out internationally.' Part of that branching out includes online fundraising campaigns, one of which seeks donations to enable the group to pay 'cash rewards to parents of newborns as a means to incentivize population growth,' which was halfway towards its modest $10,000 goal at the time of writing. For a back-to-nature movement, RTTL is surprisingly active on social media, posting updates on the progress of its construction projects, wildlife photography, and even illustrations from children's books to promote its vision of rural idyll. Orwoll – who frames the debate surrounding his project as a 'First Amendment issue' and a 'freedom issue' about 'doing what we want on our own private land' – has invested tens of thousands of dollars into research on its legality. He believes its PMA status exempts it from legislation like the Civil Rights Act or the Fair Housing Act, which mandate equality and outlaw discrimination, although that is by no means an opinion shared by all experts. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, for one, said in a statement responding to RTTL's practices: 'Racial discrimination has no place in Arkansas or anywhere in a free society. These allegations raise all sorts of legal issues, including constitutional concerns. My office is reviewing the matter.' Barry Jefferson, president of the Arkansas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said: 'I just truly believe that we don't need to get back to the Jim Crow era. We've been through that before. I think no one should be discriminated against because of their skin colour. 'If you really look deep into the Civil Rights Act, it doesn't state that. I think they're misunderstanding what it states because there have been many organisations that tried to carve that out. That's not right.' The Anti-Defamation League has been even more blunt about RTTL, accusing it of trying to revive 'discredited and reprehensible forms of segregation.' Asked by Sky about the more overtly racist aspects of his organization, including the sharing of white supremacist slogans in its Telegram channel and his own thoughts on a 'second coming' of Adolf Hitler, Orwoll did not shy away, saying conventional opinion on the Nazi leader is 'one-sided' and informed by Second World War propaganda. 'I think all historical figures are complex, multi-dimensional,' he said. 'But when I say, 'you're gonna have to wait for that new Hitler to arise', I'm not saying you're going to have to wait for a new person to start a new Holocaust. 'I am saying you are going to wait for a charismatic leader who is going to advocate for your interests because that's how a lot of people see Hitler.'
Sky News
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News
Inside the whites-only settlement in Arkansas: The group building a 'Fortress for the White Race'
by Tom Cheshire, Data and Forensics Correspondent "You want a white nation? Build a white town," Eric Orwoll says, in one video posted on social media. "It can be done. We're doing it." As the Arkansas sun beats down, dozens of men are hammering posts into the red-brown earth, building a fence to mark out the boundary. Over the last year and a half, high up in the hills and woods of the Ozarks, the group has been working hard: levelling the land, laying roads, building cabins. There are wells, a community centre and a school house, where the children do their lessons. The settlement sprawls over 160 acres and it's called Return to the Land. Its founders say it is an "intentional community based around shared ancestry". Writing on X, they are more straightforward: "We started a Whites only community." Around 40 people live here and hundreds more, from all around the world, have paid to be members. Warning: this report contains themes of racism and homophobia which some readers might find distressing Orwoll is the leader of Return to the Land, or RTTL. Blonde-haired and blue-eyed, he says he is building a "fortress for the white race". And he has invited me in. RTTL is at the vanguard of an ethnonationalist movement that has been organising online – a network that aims to define countries by ethnicity but which links across borders. There are plenty of Nazi references on the group's public chat on Telegram. Peter Csere has posted the phrase 1488. 14 refers to the "14 words", a white supremacist slogan. And H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so 88 means HH, which means "Heil Hitler". He says that is "a funny comment, a throwback". Orwoll, in his videos, has talked about the coming of a second Hitler, saying he won't arrive unless people "do the work". I ask him about this. "Well, there I am, honestly, I'm addressing the sentiments of my audience," Orwell says. "Hitler is a very controversial historical figure. I think the mainstream view is one-sided. It's informed by World War II propaganda, but also the contrary position that Hitler did nothing wrong, that many people online say: that's also a one-sided view. "I think all historical figures are complex, multi-dimensional, but when I say, 'you're gonna have to wait for that new Hitler to arise', I'm not saying you're going to have to wait for a new person to start a new Holocaust. I am saying you are going to wait for a charismatic leader who is going to advocate for your interests because that's how a lot of people see Hitler." Orwoll insists what he is doing is entirely legal, because it is a private club and so exempt from equality legislation. Experts I spoke to doubt that. But the group has invested tens of thousands of dollars in legal research and believes that it has created a viable framework for many more communities to come - both in the US and worldwide. Three other settlements are under way right now, all part of what Orwoll sees as a "path to power". THE LAY OF THE LAND Friday evening, and around 20 members of RTTL are sitting outside on the benches in the communal area, eating burgers and drinking warm milk, fresh from the goats kept on the land. Many of the wider group did not want to be here with journalists; I'm told they include law enforcement officers and federal agents. The site is at the end of a dirt road, through a small river and then up into the hills. The nearest community is Ravenden, population 423. These are remote parts and RTTL chose them deliberately. This is an online movement that picked Arkansas for its real world action because of its low land prices and less demanding building regulations. It is scratchy living, extremely hot even in May, and full of ticks that burrow into people's skin. I'm interested to see what makes people give up their old lives for this. David and Caitlin are two of them. They were among the first to sign up more than a year ago, separately. They got married last month. "Somebody had posted a video of Eric," David tells me. "I saw videos of him building stuff, and thought, 'Oh man I got to come check this out'." Caitlin felt the same. "I figure there's nothing else like this in the country, it should at least exist. Do people really think we should never be able to choose our neighbours?" IS THIS EVEN LEGAL? This is a worldview that is shared by everyone I speak to, a reaction against what they see as left-wing politics pushed too far. But many of the opinions we hear have become relatively mainstream: that mass immigration is out of control, that Western societies are in danger of losing their fundamental character as a result. That evening, it starts raining hard, and lightning flashes across the valley. People shelter inside the portacabin schoolhouse, furnished with pianos and shelves lined with books, mainly Neoplatonist philosophy, Orwoll's particular passion. More goat's milk is served before everyone goes back to their own cabins. The next day, Orwoll organises the work party, a mixture of members and people who have come to check out the project. To join the group, you have to sign up to the Private Members Association, or PMA. Followers of "non-European religions", such as Islam, are banned. So are gay people. Anything that doesn't conform to what RTTL calls "traditional views" or "European ancestry". This is RTTL's logo, a rune, inspired by Norse mythology. It sits around the camp... ...and on their website. RTTL classes itself as a Private Membership Association (PMA). The PMA is what they believe keeps this all legal. Once people have been vetted, including with a video interview to confirm their ethnicity, they can buy shares in the Limited Liability Company or LLC. Those shares translate to acres of land that members can build on. The private members' club That means, RTTL believes, they can circumvent civil rights legislation, such as the Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, and disability. Peter Csere is Orwoll's de facto number two, providing the details to fill out Orwoll's vision, including the legal framework. I ask whether this legal structure is designed as a way around the civil rights legislation - and Csere agrees. "But is this a loop hole?" he asks. "Or is this your way to maintain your right to free association, your right to various other rights that we have in the Constitution?" The civil rights challenge Barry Jefferson is the president of the Arkansas branch of the NAACP, America's oldest civil rights organisation. "I just truly believe that we don't need to get back to the Jim Crow era [of segregation]," he says. "We've been through that before. I think no one should be discriminated against because of the skin colour. "If you really look deep into Civil Rights Act, it doesn't state that. I think they're misunderstanding what it states because there have been many organisations that tried to carve that out. "That's not right." The Arkansas attorney general, Tim Griffin, gave me this statement: "This is the first I've heard of these allegations. Racial discrimination has no place in Arkansas or anywhere in a free society. These allegations raise all sorts of legal issues, including constitutional concerns. "My office is reviewing the matter." Growing a white population A lot of this is reaction to identity politics - critical race theory, and movements like Black Lives Matter. And fundamentally, this is still identity politics - but white identity politics. This is a safe space, just for people of European ancestry. While the men labour, the women of RTTL are at work too, looking after the six children who are home schooled here, and preparing the food for tonight's community dinner. The theme is colonial. Niki is 32, Alison 29 and Caitlin is 31 - none of them want their surnames to be included here. This is vital to RTTL's mission, which aims "to promote strong families with common ancestry". And it has an online fundraiser, to give, quote "cash rewards to parents of newborns as a means to incentivize population growth". Just before we arrived they donated $1,000 to a family for having their sixth child. Like many far-right movements before them, RTTL's mission is to show that by excluding others, they can live purer, more natural lives: as they put it on their website, quote, "to cultivate wholesomeness, beauty, health, and hope". So I watch on as the group plays kickball, a cross between football and rounders, before they head down to the creek for a swim. FEARS OF A RETURN TO SEGREGATION As much as RTTL might like, they do not exist in a separate world. Pocahontas is the nearest proper town to the settlement, a half-hour drive away. In a quiet residential street lies the Eddie Mae Herron centre, a low wooden building that used to be a small school. Until 1964, it was called the "Pocahontas Colored School" and it's where Pat Johnson was educated in the 1950s. She lived her formative years under segregation, when African American children were not allowed to attend schools reserved for white students. 'We could not go to school together,' Johnson, tells me. 'We couldn't eat together. We couldn't do everyday things together. So the way I felt as I grew older, that each day, that you leave your home, you were under rejection.' When I explain what Return to the Land is doing, not so far away, she worries that segregation, or at least the attitudes that allowed it to flourish, are returning: 'When you hear things like that, it causes you to be fearful and you don't know who to trust.' 'I think it's the change of our presidency,' Johnson says. 'That's what I'm going to say, because I feel like that's where the change is. It's allowing people to have the right… to be open for hatred." And the data backs that up. There's been a rise in white supremacist incidents - demonstrations, flyering, meetups and recruitment drives - over the last four years, according to ACLED, which monitors violent conflict and protest around the world. A fortress for the white race It's my last day at RTTL and Orwoll is giving a flute recital. "It's a German flute. It was a very popular instrument in colonial America," he says. Orwoll studied music at university and he plays well. His is one act in a concert put on for our entertainment, the theme, once again, colonial. Peter Csere plays the piano. Caitlin sings a song about the Virginia settlers. Orwoll would prefer those times, would prefer the US to be an entirely white country. "I would probably feel more comfortable there because I'm white and that's the way this country was when my ancestors came there." That ignores the indigenous Native Americans who were there before the Europeans, or the slaves brought over in bondage from Africa. For all Orwoll's talk of different cultures or moralities, skin colour is what matters to him. I'm white. And when I ask whether I would be accepted into RTTL on that basis, Orwoll says I probably would. I point out that I don't know anything about "White American Culture", but that he'd rather have me than say, an American from a mixed heritage background. The problem, he says, is their children. "Even if an individual has all the same values that I have, if they have an ethnic identity that other people share and care about, their children will also have that identity and their children might not necessarily have all the same beliefs that they have." Orwoll believes in the far-right conspiracy theory of "white genocide", that white people are being destroyed, deliberately, by mass immigration and cultural indoctrination. RTTL is his response to this. "When I was a kid, I suppose I interpreted racism to be judging someone solely on the basis of their race. And is that a good or bad thing?" he says. "I think the basic moral consensus treats it as automatically a bad thing without a lot of reflection." Orwoll believes social media makes his movement "far more possible". He has a network, a legal framework, and a settlement. "I would like to have more communities so that people in all parts of the US have this as an option if they want. I would also like us to network and branch out internationally." If this is the first "fortress for the white race", Orwoll would like there to be many more to come. CREDITS Reporting team: Tom Cheshire, Maz Poynter and Chris Gordon Editor: Chris Howard Production: Maz Poynter, Sara Thompson, Kaitlin Tosh, Kate Schneider and Michael Drummond Graphics: Taylor Stuart, Annie Adam and Reece Denton Top Built with Shorthand
