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lowkell

(671 posts)
Sun May 14, 2017, 08:15 AM May 2017

Perriello to Torch-Wielding Racists in Cville: Get your white supremacist hate out of my hometown [View all]

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Source: Blue Virginia

Crazy, despicable white supremacist crap in Charlottesville, Virginia last night. What are these people’s goals? According to their leader, Richard Spencer, “We’re fighting for a White future.” Also gotta love the chants of “Russia is our friend” — near a statue of Robert E. Lee, no less. So…we know exactly what these people are all about, and we know what the response should be: as Tom Perriello put it, “Get your white supremacist hate out of my hometown.” Or as Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer wrote, “I want everyone to know this: we reject this intimidation. We are a Welcoming City, but such intolerance is not welcome here.”

Read more: http://bluevirginia.us/2017/05/perriello-torch-wielding-racists-cville-get-white-supremacist-hate-hometown

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