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There is a Klan rally in downtown Dayton today. Downtown streets are closed.
A counter-demonstration will also be held.
Im going to Columbus to attend a wedding.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)My father "marched" along with KKK in 1925 in Dubois, PA because it looked like fun. Granted he was five years old at the time. OTOH, he was Jewish and marching along with the Klan.
struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)Posted: 8:17 PM, May 24, 2019
Updated: 11:39 PM, May 24, 2019
... vent organizers expect the Saturday afternoon rally in Courthouse Square to attract 20 demonstrators from the Honorable Sacred Knights of Indiana, an offshoot of the notorious white supremacist group, and up to 1,000 counterprotesters from groups such as Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Newsweek reported earlier in the day ...
https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/campbell-county/dayton/dayton-ku-klux-klan-rally-anticipates-20-klansmen-1-000-protesters
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)10 braindead klansmen exercising their 'rights' in front of a municipal bldg, using OUR taxpayer resources, while a thousand locals were in the slam pit behind chain link fences expressing their disagreement.
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backtoblue
(11,343 posts)These are HATE groups who actively call for the extermination of other humans. They deny the Holocaust happened and they fucking bully and disrupt communities to spew their hate.
Call me fucking narrow minded if you want...
The Klan and supremacy groups are goddamn terrorists .
cwydro
(51,308 posts)No thanks.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Have done a great job of rebuilding down town after the loss of 5 GM plants and all the other places shut down during the Bush Recession. I just hope there is no riot like they had in Toledo.
Maybe with so few coming it will fizzle out. But no driving through Dayton today!
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)a front group from Farrakhan, (who, point of fact, actually attacked the original BPP for Self Defense.)
I recall also the problems with a couple of the Womens' March decentralized leadership members backing Farrakhan.
The local womens' march here also was split into 2 groups a couple of years ago, where the divide/conflict was focused around intersectionality.
Last, Farrakhan's NOI has been in bed with the far right, klan, nazis, skinheads, seperatists, since the '50's.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)getting arrested at Klan rallies:
https://www.irishecho.com/2011/02/78-years-ago-notre-dame-battles-the-kkk-3/
marble falls
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cwydro
(51,308 posts)Um...
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Good riddance.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)spanone
(135,823 posts)irisblue
(32,967 posts)Troll be gone.
struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)Published: Saturday, May 25, 2019 @ 12:16 AM
Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2019 @ 2:23 PM
By: Chris Stewart, Cornelius Frolik
DAYTON UPDATE @ 2:25 p.m.:
The nine members of the Ku Klux Klan group conducting a rally in downtown Dayton that drew hundreds to counter protest their presence have done little talking during the first hour ...
A Church of God group from Greenville came to downtown Dayton and sang Amazing Grace over speakers to drown out what speakers for a Ku Klux Klan group conducting a rally ...
Dayton City Commissioner Darryl Fairchild said ... There is a great crowd of people down here on Main Street ... This is probably Dayton at its best ...
One man .. carried a rifle and wore a red hat that says Make racists afraid again. He said he was because he worried that armed KKK supporters would try to terrorize minority community members. Im not here to shoot anybody, its an anti-facist statement, he said ...
https://www.whio.com/news/local/today-kkk-rally-disrupt-services-test-dayton-unity-campaign/rbhb874czMR8DnxU1t2HXP/
struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)BY SCOTT MCDONALD ON 5/25/19 AT 6:20 PM EDT
... City officials estimated that 500-600 people showed up for the counter protest ...
https://www.newsweek.com/kkk-members-outnumbered-counter-protesters-dayton-rally-saturday-1436271
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)The weak point being exploited here is the inclusion of the armed 'Huey P. Newton Gun Club', which is a farrakhan inspired fake org, stealing the original BPP leader's name.