'White lives matter'

[struggle4progress]

Sarah Viets
August 03, 2016

... Now comes White Lives Matter (WLM), a small but virulent movement ... Its main activists .. are unvarnished white supremacists ...

... one of its key leaders .. is 40-year-old Rebecca Barnette .. a Tennessean who is also vice president of the women’s division of the racist skinhead group Aryan Strikeforce. In June, Barnette announced that she also had been appointed director of the women’s division of the National Socialist Movement, America’s largest neo-Nazi group ...

In posts on her page on vk.com .. Barnette says that Jews and Muslims have formed an alliance “to commit genocide of epic proportions” of the white race. Now is the time, she adds in the same post, for “the blood of our enemies [to] soak our soil to form new mortar to rebuild our landmasses” ...

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/white-lives-matter

[struggle4progress]

1. 'White Lives Matter' Rally Crushed by Counter-Protests

Published 31 July 2016

... A “White Lives Matter” rally in Buffalo, New York called by a neo-Nazi group was outnumbered by counter-protesters about 100 to 1 and several fights broke out between the demonstrators before the racists had to admit defeat and go home, local media reported Saturday.

The rally was called by the U.S.-based neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement but, according to Buffalo News, only a few supporters showed up along with only one neo-Nazi organizer, white supremacist Karl Hand of Lockport.

After hearing about the rally, more than 300 counter protesters showed up. A video of the event showed a woman telling Hand that “nobody is going to take your shit in this day and age, you are sick people … the rest of the United States is going to trample you out.”

Meanwhile, while Buffalo Police had dozens of officers on the scene, a fight broke out between a man wearing a green “White Pride” t-shirt and some of the counter-protesters. His t-shirt was ripped off in the scuffle ...

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-White-Lives-Matter-Rally-Crushed-by-Counter-Protests-20160731-0015.html

[tonyt53]

2. And TN used to be such a nice place. Most of it has pretty much gone straight to hell anymore.