White nationalists stage anti-refugee protests in Tennessee
Source: Reuters
October 28, 2017 / 6:03 AM / Updated 30 minutes ago
Bryan Woolston
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - About 300 white nationalists and neo-Nazis held back-to-back rallies in two small Tennessee cities on Saturday to protest refugee resettlement in the state, which sued the federal government over the issue earlier this year.
Protesters arrive at a White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee, U.S., October 28, 2017. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
The “White Lives Matter” rallies in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro, organized by some of the same groups involved in a Virginia march that turned violent in August, drew an equal number of counter-demonstrators and a heavy police presence.
The protesters started in Shelbyville, then traveled about 35 miles north to Murfreesboro for a second rally. Both towns are near Nashville, center of a metropolitan area has become home to refugees from Somalia, Iraq and elsewhere.
“We don’t want the federal government to keep dumping all these refugees into middle Tennessee,” said Brad Griffin, a member of a group known as the League of the South who has written about his desire to create a white “ethnostate.”.....................
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennessee-protests/white-nationalists-stage-anti-refugee-protests-in-tennessee-idUSKBN1CX0BZ
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Anne Morrow Cooper @Annecoo73745427 3h3 hours ago
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Singing: "Jesus Is Just Alt-Right With Me" Umm ... except Jesus Is throwing up about now.
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Good for the counter protesters.
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/28/white-lives-matter-rally-held-in-tennessee-but-they-were-outnumbered/
Counterprotesters Shout Down “White Lives Matter” Rallies in Tennessee
By Daniel Politi
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People hold signs during a "White Lives Matter" rally on October 28, 2017 in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
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Hundreds of people came out to two white nationalist rallies held in Tennessee on Saturday, and, as has become the norm lately, the counter protesters vastly outnumbered the racists. The first rally of the day was held in Shelbyville, where some 200 white nationalists chanted in favor of deportations and closing the borders while almost double the number of people protested their presence.When someone from the National Socialist Movement took the microphone and tried to speak to the gathered demonstrators, the counter protesters managed to drown out his words by playing Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
The second rally was set to be held in Murfreesboro, and the counter protesters came out in droves, as some 500 people gathered in the town of 130,000 to oppose the planned rally. In the end it seems only about 15 white nationalists showed up and their protest quickly fizzled out.
Police managed to keep protesters and counter protesters apart and the rallies ended without incident. The only exception seems to be that one man was arrested in Shelbyville after he apparently tried to cross onto the white nationalist side of the protest.
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This one in Murfreesboro was cancelled.
Lots of expence put out by this community no doubt!!
Chris Conte @NC5_ChrisConte 4h4 hours ago
Counter protestors have started showing up here in Murfreesboro - White Lives Matter demonstrators haven't showed up yet @NC5
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Fuck these fundie nazi fuckers