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Paging North Jerz Ho!

Maybe this is old news, but apparently there are active and organized white supremacists in blue-ass Northeastern New Jersey – Bergen County to be precise. And we’re not talking about the more subtle, “Jews control the media” and “Ship those immigrants back to where they came from” variety of racists, like your friend’s crazy uncle who makes everyone uncomfortable at the dinner table.  We’re talking Mein Kampf-reading, Holocaust-denying, white-laces-on-black-Docs-wearing, white bread warriors who are amped up for the race war. New Village Voice reporter Maria Luisa Tucker recently infiltrated one of their gatherings, a Memorial Day weekend barbecue held in Elmwood Park, followed the next day by a trip to the Met to look at “some of the most amazing [art]work done by our race.”

The June 13 cover story relays in detail the highlights of the two-day white pride extravaganza, remaining entirely objective so as to “observe the members of [the] group as they really are.” Unfortunately for North Jersey residents, it might make them feel, if only for a split second, like they live in rural Alabama as opposed to 20 minutes outside of New York City. Then again, it will probably remind them of why they should be thankful for living in North Jersey, where shit like this is confined to a few dozen loonies convening in some run down meeting hall with “peeling white paint,” a “dirt-and-weeds yard,” and old furniture and broken “circa 1990″ computers stacked all over the place. W.T. much?

P.S. Be thankful the Voice is now running hard-hitting features like this on its cover instead of articles about candy.