AP Wire | 09/30/2004 | Minnesota record label direct-mails racist CD to teenagers

One of the nation's largest "white power" music labels said it was pressing 100,000 copies of a "pro-white sampler CD" and had begun direct-mailing them to teenagers across the country. An official of Panzerfaust Records said the campaign was dubbed Project Schoolyard USA, after a similar effort earlier this year in Germany. "Volunteers from every pro-White group and organization in the U.S. have signed up to assist us in this project, as well as numerous unaffiliated individuals, consisting mostly of our customers/supporters who are high school students themselves," said a statement on the label's Web site. "We don't just entertain racist kids, we create them," the Web site boasted, going on to say the target audience for the project is "White kids between the ages of 13-19." The CD features song titles such as "White Supremacy," "Hate Train Rolling," and "Commie Scum." "Obviously there's a message behind the music, and the message is one that we're also interested in marketing as well," said Byron Calvert, one of the men who operates Panzerfaust, named after a Nazi antitank weapon. He said in an interview with The Associated Press that the label, based in the Twin Cities suburb of Newport, had already sent out 5,000 CDs - most were direct-mailed to teenagers nationwide with interests including heavy metal music or skateboarding. Calvert bought bulk mailing lists to obtain the teens' names and addresses.