Pro-White Agitators Rallying This Weekend In VA To Unite The Right

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By Melinda Warner | August 11, 2017 6:00 pm

What began as a local effort to protect a symbol of white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia, has become what may be the largest gathering of “pro-white” demonstrators in the United States for well over a decade at this weekend’s “Unite the Right” rally.

Following months of public debate, the Charlottesville city council voted in February to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee from a downtown park. ‘Alt-right’ leader Richard Spencer led a white supremacist protest in May and the KKK rallied in July against the statue’s removal. Local blogger Jason Kessler started organizing a “Unite the Right” rally to occur on August 12th to express support for leaving the statue where it is—in the middle of Lee Park (now named Emancipation Park). The neo-Confederate League of the South promoted the rally in hopes of “an excellent turnout of Southern nationalists:”

In response to the Alt-Right’s peaceful demonstration in support of the Lee Monument on May 13th, the City of Charlottesville and roving mobs of Antifa have cracked down on the First Amendment rights of conservatives and right wing activists. They have threatened our families, harassed our employers and tried to drive us from public spaces with threats of intimidation. We are not afraid. You will not divide us.

This is an event which seeks to unify the right-wing against a totalitarian Communist crackdown, to speak out against displacement level immigration policies in the United States and Europe, and to affirm the right of Southerners and white people to organize for their interests just like any other group is able to do, free of persecution.

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/pro-white-agitators-rallying-this-weekend-in-va-to-unite-the-right/

[BigmanPigman]

1. My, my...isn't that lovely. When will these people get over it?

It has been 150 years since they lost the civil war. We have had foreign enemies in wars who became our allies in less than 10 years.