October 26, 2005
Private: Young Twins Sing Songs of Racist Hate
For those of you who may have been too absorbed with work or studying to pay attention to developments in popular culture, thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.
Their blonde hair, blue eyes, and smiling faces may conjure up images of another pair of famed American twins--Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen--but the similarities stop there. Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.
Known as "Prussian Blue," which is a nod to their German heritage, the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine.
"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx. "We want our people to stay white ... we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."
Lynx and Lamb have been nurtured on racist beliefs since birth by their family. Their mother, April, home-schools the girls, teaching them her own unique perspective on everything from current to historical events. In addition, April's father surrounds the family with symbols of his beliefs - specifically the Nazi swastika. It appears on his belt buckle, on the side of his pick-up truck and he's even registered it as his cattle brand with the Bureau of Livestock Identification.
"It really breaks my heart to see those two girls spewing out that kind of garbage," said Ted Shaw, civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund.
Since they began singing, the girls have become such a force in the white nationalist movement that David Duke uses the twins to draw a crowd.