James Edwards Interviews White Advocate Don Wassall

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James Edwards: Don, you have been a lifelong activist and have been involved in many different projects and publications. Could you give readers a quick recap of your work?

Don Wassall: Building a strongly pro-American “third party” was the main reason I left my legal career and devoted my efforts full-time to the Populist Party of America in the 1980s and ‘90s, first as Executive Director and later National Chairman. The Populist Party was the most successful right-wing grassroots third party since the Populist Party of the 1890s. After the seemingly inevitable factionalism and infiltration that bedevils nationalist projects and caused the Populist Party’s downfall, I ran the American Freedom Union for several years and founded and published The Nationalist Times from 1985 until 2023.

Edwards: CasteFootball.us is a long-running online forum dedicated to discussing sports through the lens of what you call the racial “caste system” in American athletics. You argue that White athletes face systemic discrimination, negative stereotyping, and positional restrictions in both professional and collegiate leagues. Sports fandom plays a significant role in the lives of countless Americans, yet few examine these racial dynamics in sports the way you do. What inspired this issue to become a passion for you?

Wassall: I played sports growing up and always followed baseball, football, basketball, and hockey among other sports as a fan. I grew up in an all-White suburb of Pittsburgh and didn’t become racially aware until my mid-20s. At that time (the early 1980s), I noticed an ongoing change in the demographics of the National Football League. Although the NFL, like Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association, had been thoroughly integrated beginning in the 1950s and ’60s, starting in the 1980s, White players began to be phased out as running backs, wide receivers, and on defense in general. It was obvious that this wasn’t by accident but rather as part of an agenda, so it was something I began following quite closely, and eventually I started Caste Football in 2004 to study and expose the racial and political dynamics of sports, and Caste Football remains the one and only website of its kind to this day.

Edwards: Football has become a religion in this country, and you’ve tracked this racial caste system in the NFL for years. Do you believe that White players are steered away from certain positions despite their talent? If so, why?

Wassall: The racial slotting actually begins at the peewee level, with Black kids almost automatically becoming the running backs and receivers, and more and more now the quarterbacks. It’s not as noticeable in predominantly White small towns and suburban areas, but it continues through high school and then, of course, college and the NFL.

The template of the Caste System in football, restricting Whites primarily to quarterback, tight end, and the offensive line and rarely any other positions, was cemented in place some 40 years ago and has changed very little since, other than there are now many more Black quarterbacks than there used to be. Blacks are heavily recruited and given every opportunity to succeed at quarterback, while Whites rarely receive scholarships or opportunities to play running back, wide receiver, or defense at major college programs.

There have been two generations now of uncontested propaganda that American Blacks are the world’s greatest athletes, and that Whites just can’t keep up with them when it comes to speed, jumping, and other measurements of athleticism.

This agenda serves two main purposes. One is a form of psychological warfare directed at Whites to make them feel inferior physically and athletically, to demoralize them and keep them down as they are rapidly replaced in the United States; and also, to prop up Blacks and their often-fragile egos.

Many Whites, especially racially aware Whites, have tuned out sports, seeing it as “blackball” and buying into the “Blacks are the best” propaganda and ceding it as an area where Whites can’t compete. In reality, Whites, not Blacks, are the world’s best athletes, and it’s not even particularly close. Whites win around 90% of the medals at the Winter Olympics and usually 60% or more at the Summer Games. Blacks are almost completely invisible in most sports because they just aren’t very good at them compared to Whites, and often Asians as well.

The only slight advantage Blacks have over Whites on average is running short distances in a straight line. This is why the 40-yard dash at the NFL’s annual Combine is hyped so much, but even there the Black advantage is small. At the Combine, athletes are tested in several events, and the relatively few Whites who are invited more than hold their own in the strength and quickness tests. And also in jumping; on Caste Football we regularly post videos of young White basketball players who can “jump through the roof.”

A new measurement in recent years for college football players is the Relative Athletic Score (RAS), which combines various tested attributes of athleticism into a grade, with 10.0 being perfect. Again, many Whites do exceptionally well when it comes to RAS, including those who don’t even get drafted by the NFL.

White football players are at the back of the bus when it comes to scholarships and opportunities after high school, no matter how much talent they have. From there, the lack of opportunities at big-time college football programs results in Whites being excluded by the NFL via its annual draft, which every year, decade after decade, limits the number of Whites drafted to around 20%, defying all laws of probability and common sense.

DEI began in earnest in sports in the late 1960s and has since spread throughout society as an extremely important part of The Great Replacement. Blacks can indeed be good athletes, but what we have now is an extremist form of Black racial supremacy in sports that most Whites aren’t even aware of because the corporate media always follows the party line of lionizing Black athleticism while downplaying and even joking about White athleticism.

Contrary to what we’re often told, sports is not the one area of American society that is still a “meritocracy”; it’s the original proving ground of effective anti-White propaganda as well as a tool to glorify and promote Black athletes far more than Whites ones in service to The Great Replacement agenda.

Edwards: Some readers may be surprised to know that there is a women’s professional basketball league called the WNBA, where we find a notable example of anti-White sentiment in sports. Who is Caitlin Clark, and why are her Black, lesbian opponents trying to physically assault her during games?

Wassall: Caitlin Clark was the most dominant female college basketball player ever. However, another characteristic of the Caste System in sports is the requirement that a Black person must always be regarded as “the best” in football, basketball, and sprinting. And as an aside, of late we are seeing several White sprinters breaking 10.00 seconds in the 100 meters; Whites often won gold medals in sprinting until the 1970s and are now battling their way back when it comes to world-class speed even though they are rarely given scholarships out of high school or trained at a high level. Boxing is another sport where Whites have made a strong comeback, which is why the media doesn’t cover it like it used to.

The WNBA is not only regarded by the mostly Black players in it as “theirs,” but it also has a high number of lesbians, including the coaches. So Caitlin is doubly resented for being both White and straight as well as for the publicity she received while playing collegiately for Iowa. So the hatred directed toward her is a textbook example of Black fragility and hatred toward Whites who “encroach” on what they regard as their exclusive territory.

Edwards: A few weeks ago, during a game where Clark was punched in the throat, her teammate Sophie Cunningham got into a viral finger-pointing standoff with DeWanna Bonner following the incident involving Clark. Cunningham, a blonde bombshell resembling a Greek goddess, calmly pointed while Bonner reacted with typical hysterics. The clip exploded as a meme, generating tens of millions of views on social media and national news coverage. What did you think of the incident, and why has it sparked a public debate about racial realities in sports?

Wassall: God Bless Sophie Cunningham! She is a beautiful and very likable White girl who protects Caitlin on the court as best she can and doesn’t take guff from anyone. She and Caitlin are doing a great job of exposing the WNBA as a bastion of Black and lesbian supremacy. However, while it is generating a lot of debate, at Caste Football we dig much deeper into these things, and unfortunately the average White sports fan, being a well-indoctrinated American, is still oblivious to the bigger picture when it comes to the racial dynamics of sports and how it disadvantages Whites.

Edwards: Why does successful athletic performance by White players in Black-dominated sports leagues trigger such a level of resentment and physical response?

Wassall: Black fragility and ego are the main factors. They believe that once something becomes “theirs” it stays that way in perpetuity.

Back in the 1990s, there were very few White receivers in the NFL, and they were often hit in the head with extreme force by Black defenders, what’s called “head hunting.” In recent years, the league has moved to penalize the worst offenders, but it’s still an occupational hazard for Whites at the “verboten” positions.

Racial taunting is also common; Peyton Hillis, who in 2010 became the first White running back in the NFL to run for 1,000 yards in a full 25 years, has said he was the target of racial insults on virtually every play.

Edwards: Using a sporting event as a segue into politics, an extreme example of Black violence against White athletes would be the murder of Austin Metcalf by Karmelo Anthony at a high school track meet. This incident has led to a mini-resurgence of BLM hysteria, with many individuals in the Black community posting AI images of themselves urinating on Metcalf’s grave and arguing that Anthony should have been able to strike first, stab Metcalf repeatedly, and expect a “not guilty” verdict. How pervasive is this kind of thinking within the Black community, and what was your reaction to that incident, the trial, and the sentence handed down?

Wassall: It saddens me to see the level of knee-jerk anti-White hate among some Blacks. There are Blacks who speak out intelligently against the behavior that has caused epidemic “Black fatigue” in the U.S, but so many Blacks in urban areas are seemingly nurtured from birth with an unshakeable victim mentality that resists common sense.

The stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, a good-looking young kid who repeatedly politely asked Karmelo Anthony to go to the correct area at a track meet in Texas, was a tragedy, but typifies a scenario that happens all too often and with far less publicity.

Edwards: Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) attempted to stoke the flames with her comments, asserting that in that district, there was no way a Black man could receive a fair trial. With the election of more politicians who are quick to blame everything on Whites (Mamdani, Crockett, AOC, etc.), where is this all heading?

Wassall: The problems will continue to worsen until Whites start thinking and acting in their own group interests far more than is the case now. You see White groups like the Mormons and Amish who work together for the greater good of their community, but among Whites in general there is precious little of that. Whites are independent to a fault, and until we find some ways to work together in this virulently anti-White system, we will continue to freefall when it comes to numbers and our collective mental and physical health.

Edwards: What do you think other minority groups think about these concerns? Do Asians, for instance, view the blatant anti-White racism against Caitlin Clark and others differently than we do? And are average Hispanics relieved that a murderer like Anthony is off the streets, or is there a loose alliance among these minority groups against heritage Americans?

Wassall: Asian Americans were bombarded with propaganda that “Asian hate” was coming from White men, but they are well aware that Black men (and often Black women) are behind all of it. Blacks and Hispanics rarely get along; in fact, Blacks as a group seem unable to get along with anyone.

Many “Hispanics” are primarily or entirely White; “Hispanic” is a linguistic definition more than a racial or even ethnic one. Some South American countries have a larger White population by percentage than the United States, and “south of the border” Whites are still mostly respected and are at the top of the pecking order when it comes to politics and things like advertising and standards of beauty. There are many pro athletes named “Rodriguez” or “Garcia” from Latin America who are mostly or entirely of European descent, usually Spanish, Italian and/or German.

Whites need to be open and welcoming of any potential alliances, including with Asians, given the overall poor condition of our great race both in North America and Europe.

Edwards: Please provide a final statement and let readers know where they can continue engaging in the debate at the intersection of race and sports.

Wassall: There is a lot more to the Caste System in sports than what I’ve briefly summarized. Caste Football is a discussion forum that has well over half a million posts, and we discuss everything under the sun, not just sports, though rooting for White athletes and exposing the racism and unfairness they often experience with direct and indirect evidence is our primary mission. American Free Press readers are encouraged to contribute to the discussion by going to castefootball.us and signing up as a poster.