His calls have supported a neo-Nazi candidate in California, who he promised would rid America of “traitorous Jews.” Those calls were targeted to 50 Jewish institutions in California, the ADL said. In online forums, according to the ADL, Road to Power has posted videos and commentary filled with hateful, racist speech and ideas Rhodes has also seemingly watched the news with an eagle eye for chances to leap in with robocalls. Rhodes came to public attention when he was found to have distributed white supremacist propaganda at Sandpoint High School in 2017. His story noted the calls are another tool relatively isolated racists have for amplifying their message – a “new, high-tech, computer-delivered brand of hate” that allows isolated individuals to amplify their message and appear to be a much larger movement than they actually are. The Anti-Defamation League says: “The calls, which have targeted communities in California, Idaho, Iowa, Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania, seek to exploit current events by disseminating vile, offensive commentary.”Ī recent rise in this racist robocalling was the subject of reporting by former Spokesman-Review reporter Bill Morlin for the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2018. It’s an amalgam of old tech and new, and Rhodes uses it to try to fuel white supremacist passions in the wake of news events he can twist toward his purposes. That’s the name for Rhodes’ racist, anti-Semitic project, which pushes out robocalls across the nation and dwells in the sewers of the internet. The messages, which reportedly included aspersions cast against the victims’ parents for allowing her to live among people of color, concluded by claiming to have been sent by Road to Power. Of course, for Rhodes, the rabid robocaller, there is a racial – or, rather, a racist – aspect to everything. Police have said it was not racially motivated, though the victim was white and the accused are black, according to news reports on the case. The case is shocking in many ways – the suspects are 13 and 14, for one. The Christmas calls were an attempt to peddle hatred on the back of the recent murder of a Barnard College freshman, who was stabbed during an attempted robbery by three middle-school classmates in a Manhattan park on Dec. But he’s established himself as an ugly echo of this region’s history with racist groups whether he lives here anymore or not.
In truth, he’s just one guy – one very small guy – using a technological megaphone to appear big. Nevertheless, in much of the reporting on the case in New York City media, he is referred to as an Idaho resident and Road to Power as an Idaho-based “organization.” Rhodes was based for several years in Sandpoint, though he was said to have moved to Montana last year. Columbia described the calls as “abhorrent and viciously racist.” A relatively mild example: “Remember to teach your children: Around blacks, never relax.” It came courtesy of our old pal Scott Rhodes, working his racist robocalls once again. What university employees found when they listened to their messages was a nearly two-minute diatribe filled with racist propaganda and hatred linked to the murder of a Barnard student. It was Christmas Day in New York City, early evening, when a few phones in the empty offices at Columbia University and Barnard College began to ring.
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