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The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports on the shutting down of Panzerfaust. This white-supremacy record label has gotten a lot of attention for their proactive distribution of hateful anti-ethnic messages to teenagers across the country. In September, Panzerfaust announced plans to pass out 100,000 copies of a “pro-white sampler CD.” Now they are in the news again. This time, to announce that they are shutting down. They just found out that their owner, Anthony Pierpont has a Mexican mother.

Byron Calvert, 33, who was Panzerfaust’s spokesman and public face, accuses his former business partner, Anthony Pierpont, 38, of having a Hispanic mother. “I told Anthony that he had no choice but to walk away from (Panzerfaust) before this became public,” Calvert says on a Web site linked from the now-defunct Panzerfaust site.

“It’s all over,” said Joe Roy, chief investigator for the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks white supremacist activities across the country. The center’s Web site has posted a copy of Pierpont’s birth certificate, which shows his Mexico-born mother was named Maria Marcola del Prado. Pierpont could not be reached for comment.

Pierpont’s racial heritage has long been a subject of speculation in white-power circles. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Web site refers to him as “The Well-Tanned Skinhead,” and reports others within the movement have questioned his race as early as 1995. Until recently, Calvert adamantly denied the rumors, but now has used the Internet to demand Pierpont “take a DNA test to clear up any doubt. He refuses to do so.”