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 nonwhites 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 
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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 
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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 AfricanAmerican 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 
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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.