MA Teacher Has Secret Life As White Nationalist Writer: Report

WATERTOWN, MA — Star Academy, which has campuses in Watertown and Wellesley, fired an elementary school teacher this week just before Huffington Post published an article identifying him as a writer for white nationalist Websites and publications.

Benjamin Welton, who is also a history PhD candidate at Boston University, wrote under the several pen names, including Sinclair Jenkins. In 2017 he published an essay on the white supremacist Website American Renaissance where, Huffington Post reported, he complained about Black seamen he served with in the Navy and an "ingrained culture of anti-white hatred" in academia.

"Once I began paying attention to the news, I started seeing why so many people in my hometown took a dim view of blacks,” Jenkins wrote. "After Ferguson and Baltimore, I understood that pumping money into the ghetto would never fix things."

Star Academy, which describes itself as a school for "the gifted and talented," placed Welton on leave when Huffington Post asked for comment. The school fired him this week, just before the article was published. Some of his writings were critical of "critical race theory" in schools, a frequent target for conservatives.

"I now try to inject race realism into my working life," he wrote as Jenkins in the 2017 American Renaissance article. "When I teach my students or write papers, I refuse to engage in cultural Marxism or in anti-white rhetoric."

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