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In an effort to help stem the epidemic of suicide and opioid abuse among white males in today’s America, Craig Nelsen and Sherman Davis started the Robinson Jeffers Boxing Club in an empty 8000 sq ft former grocery store in Lexington, Missouri in January, 2018.
It was a truly different approach to an urgent problem. The 13-week residency program included a healthy, primarily raw diet, exercise, and academic studies including math, philosophy, literature, music, and, to help residents conceptualize a higher way of being, poetry. But the core of the program was daily rigorous boxing training.
The need for such a program is as clear as it is urgent. White men are only 30 percent of the nation’s population, but they account for 70 percent of the nation’s suicides.
While the program was focused on the particular problems unique to white males, the program was always open to--and would have benefited--men of any race, as was always clearly stated on the website and in all correspondence. Nevertheless, on January 24, 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center attacked the project in an article published on their website that left readers with the false impression Sherman and Craig were opening a “whites only” club. The article was so outrageous it linked the effort to help others to, unbelievably, Nazi atrocities.
The SPLC’s dishonest attack caused the project to be shut down by local authorities, leaving Sherman and Craig financially ruined.
In November, 2018, Craig filed suit against the SPLC on defamation grounds in US District Court for the Western District of Missouri (Case #: 4:18-cv-00895 ). On July 31, 2019, the lawsuit survived the Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss--the first of dozens of defamation lawsuits against the SPLC to do so. Now the case is in discovery. Funds are needed to take depositions. If you can help out, you'll be doing a great thing against a vile organization.
Please help us fight the destructive hatred of the SPLC by donating to this effort.
It was a truly different approach to an urgent problem. The 13-week residency program included a healthy, primarily raw diet, exercise, and academic studies including math, philosophy, literature, music, and, to help residents conceptualize a higher way of being, poetry. But the core of the program was daily rigorous boxing training.
The need for such a program is as clear as it is urgent. White men are only 30 percent of the nation’s population, but they account for 70 percent of the nation’s suicides.
While the program was focused on the particular problems unique to white males, the program was always open to--and would have benefited--men of any race, as was always clearly stated on the website and in all correspondence. Nevertheless, on January 24, 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center attacked the project in an article published on their website that left readers with the false impression Sherman and Craig were opening a “whites only” club. The article was so outrageous it linked the effort to help others to, unbelievably, Nazi atrocities.
The SPLC’s dishonest attack caused the project to be shut down by local authorities, leaving Sherman and Craig financially ruined.
In November, 2018, Craig filed suit against the SPLC on defamation grounds in US District Court for the Western District of Missouri (Case #: 4:18-cv-00895 ). On July 31, 2019, the lawsuit survived the Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss--the first of dozens of defamation lawsuits against the SPLC to do so. Now the case is in discovery. Funds are needed to take depositions. If you can help out, you'll be doing a great thing against a vile organization.
Please help us fight the destructive hatred of the SPLC by donating to this effort.
Organizer
Craig Nelsen
Organizer
Kansas City, MO