White supremacist summit convenes in Tennessee today

[TomCADem]

Source: USA Today

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. — White supremacists from Stormfront, an online forum with more than 330,000 members, traveled here this weekend for a conference replacing what had been billed earlier as their annual Great Smoky Mountains Summit.

Don Black of West Palm Beach, Fla., a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and the forum's founder, announced the Sept. 30 weekend event in July.

In the time since the forum's domain hosts removed the site from the Internet, Black became ill and withdrew from its planning, according to Billy Roper, another prominent white supremacist who took over the conference.

Saturday also is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and the holiest on the religion's calendar. Roper, whose ideology is neo-Nazi according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, said the date of the conference was a coincidence.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-supremacist-summit-convenes-in-tennessee-today/ar-AAsDTgB

[Orrex]

1. I'm so sick of all the Trump posts

[shenmue]

2. Fuck these people

[EarthFirst]

3. Oh, but the Constitution grants them their rights to convene their hate fest...

Fuck their rights!

[sarisataka]

7. Their rights are your rights

At least it brings them into the open

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. I wonder if these crackerfests attract a lot of hookers?

I've heard that hookers will travel to Republican conventions because the get a lot of business, but they don't bother with Democratic conventions. It seems the Dems just fuck each other and have little use for sex workers.

[AJT]

5. I can't find the guess as to how many showed up. Anyone know?

[keen observer]

6. The last time Roper held a conference was in a coffee shop

and he was fired from his job.

Conway coffee shop apologizes for white supremacist gathering

Recently, a long time employee asked if our business could be used after hours for a political meeting of a conservative group. We questioned the employee in detail about the purposes of the gathering and we were assured that no extremist or other hateful views would be exchanged as we do not condone that. We were leaving town for the weekend after our family had suffered a loss. Our mistake was trusting an employee, who in hindsight, should not have been trusted. We are appalled that the employee hijacked our business to provide a platform for hate and we absolutely denounce it and all forms of hate.

Steps have been taken to insure this does not happen again, and the employee has been fired. We absolutely love our community and it's diversity. Through the years, our business has made positive contributions to our community and we will continue to do so. We are sorry for our mistake and ask for your forgiveness.

https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/09/25/conway-coffee-shop-apologizes-for-white-supremacist-gathering

[benld74]

8. I hear their giving free DNA tests when you arrive nt

[SonofDonald]

9. That's to find out how many of them

Married their sisters and begat these upright citizens.....

You just can't mix too many siblings or you end up with.....

trump.

[Hieronymus]

19. One white supremacist was found to be 14% black ..

he was outed on TV.

[bitterross]

10. I Know That Town and Area

Crossville, TN is the town right next to the one where I went to college. They used to say that black people shouldn't hang around there after dark or they'd end up hanging around there after dark. This was the '80s. Oh so witty those KKK lynch mobs.

I had hoped things had changed in that part of the country but this makes me wonder.

Yep, there is a reason say I "escaped" TN. Not that I just moved away.

[videohead5]

14. Nashville

Is very different.a very blue city in the middle of a red state.

[paleotn]

20. Yep. I grew up there

In the 70s and 80s the Democratic primaries where the election for Metro-Nashville offices. The general was a mere formality. Same for big Shelby. The rest of the state however.....

[Archae]

11. Just saw the college game, TN "Volunteers" vs. Georgia Bulldogs.

Fans of the Volunteers got into brawls in the stands, while the Volunteers lost, 41-0.

[IcyPeas]

12. I heard some of them are nice people.....

[Sunlei]

13. edited, not new-JFK * "Lawyers committee for civil rights" killed their domain name, really fast!

https://lawyerscommittee.org/


In August 2017, Stormfront's domain name was seized by its registrar for "displaying bigotry, discrimination or hatred."[46] Earlier the same month, white supremacist news and commentary website The Daily Stormer had been removed from the public Internet[46] for its involvement in the Unite the Right rally.


*The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities. The Lawyers’ Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar’s leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity – work that continues to be vital today.

To view the Lawyers’ Committee General Brochure, click here.

[bluestarone]

15. in North Dakota

everyone is worried some white supremacist will buy property BUT they vote for the ass hole trump NOW that shows how dumbfuck they are

[jcmaine72]

16. Hate speech.

Each and every one of them should be in prison for promoting genocide and inciting the hate that fuels it.

[dhill926]

17. Crossville...

Appropriate name...

[roamer65]

18. ..