delawareonline ¦ Music attracts teens to hate groups

Newark man, who taught physics at UD, a key player in mid-Atlantic After being screened and approved, they entered in twos and threes. Wearing combat boots, black bomber jackets and T-shirts with swastikas, the skinheads crowded into a volunteer fire hall here last month for an early evening concert featuring ear-shattering rock music laced with lyrics of hate. The 150 or so who attended -- young and middle-age men and women from five states -- advocate the superiority of the white race. "Uprise 2006" was organized by Robert T. Huber, of Newark, and the Keystone State Skinheads, according to Web sites in the white power movement. (...) Such music and its message is propelling a new wave of racist recruiting in the Delaware Valley, across the country and throughout much of Europe, say law enforcement agencies, the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center of Birmingham, Ala. And the Internet is the engine driving the movement. "It has made white power music a global phenomenon and created a network of international white supremacist sites that put haters around the world in touch with each other," the Anti-Defamation League said in a report released Tuesday. "European racist skinheads, using the Internet, helped to play a role in reinvigorating the American scene. Now, both American and European racist skinheads are helping the subculture to expand rapidly in the countries of the former Communist bloc."