Upper St. Clair Residents Receive Letters from White Advancement Group

Tracey L. Coleman, a resident of the Rolling Meadows subdivision of Upper St. Clair Township (a southern Pittsburgh suburb), received a letter on her front lawn this morning, Sunday, Aug. 25, opposing illegal immigration.


And a drive around her neighborhood by a Patch reporter on Sunday afternoon confirmed that Coleman was not the only one.

Printed at the bottom of each page of the letter is the website address www.TheAdvancedWhiteSociety.org.

The Advanced White Society "party thesis," according to its website, includes lines like "We demand the union of advanced white people to be the highest priority of our cause, and to grow by self-determination of our race and beliefs," "We demand land and territory for the maintenance of our people and our future population" and "We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury or destruction of the common welfare of the society."

Coleman, who identifies herself as white, discovered the letter at around 7 a.m., less than 12 hours after a neighborhood block party wrapped up that included among its guests "several American citizens, born here, who look foreign," she said.

"We think we were targeted for that reason," she said, "because they (whomever left the letters) only left these things in the yards of people on this street where we blocked off the street for a block party."

The street was blocked off from the intersection of Rolling Meadow Road and Rolling Meadow Circle to the intersection of Rolling Meadow Road and Old Meadow Road, Coleman said. Coleman lives in that block and attended the party.

Patch has learned that the letters were delivered to nearby houses outside of that block, as well.

An Upper St. Clair police dispatcher said on Sunday afternoon that he was unsure if any groups had recently obtained permits to disseminate information in that area.

The UpperSt.Clair Patch contacted Jason Hiecke, CEO of The Advanced White Society, on Sunday, and Hiecke accepted the group's ownership of the Upper St. Clair letters.

However, Hiecke, a former member of the National Socialist Movement, said that he does not believe that any specific area of the township was targeted. Hiecke says that his group is responsible for the recent dissemination of 300 similar letters across the Pittsburgh area.

When asked if The Advanced White Society is a "white supremacy group," Hiecke said that he does not believe the white race to be "100-percent superior" to any race. Instead, he said that his group believes that whites "need a society to rule our own people and keep our own people safe" and that "the white race is on a verge of extinction."

"If we continue to allow this society to go the route that it's going, there will be no white race," he said. "This multiculturalism is being forced onto white countries, and it's only destroying the white race."

Coleman says, "I was ashamed and embarrassed to receive that today. You have your political opinion, and I have mine. But I was just really embarrassed by that, and I felt that, because we had so many multicultural people here in our neighborhood yesterday at this party, we were targeted."

A woman who also lives along Rolling Meadow Road but declined to give her name said, "I opened up the scroll (letter), was surprised to see it, thought it was quite a shame, feel like there's no point to have this.

"I just threw it away. It suited me wrong. I didn't care for it, so I threw it away."

The unnamed woman said that her and Coleman's street contain a good number of homes that are often rented to foreign families.

Did you receive a letter from The Advanced White Society? Contact Editor Bob Healy at robert.healyiii@patch.com.