Among the many many, many downsides of Donald Trump’s second time period is white supremacists getting method too comfy with letting their racist flag fly. Members of the white supremacist group Patriot Entrance felt the Fourth of July weekend was good for marching via downtown Louisville.
In accordance with WAVE, each Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and the NAACP swiftly spoke out towards the Patriot Entrance march on Sunday. “Phrases are usually not sturdy sufficient. For many years, the NAACP has been devoted to combating towards racial hatred and division fomented by teams like this,” Raymond Burse, president of the Louisville NAACP, mentioned on Sunday. “It’s unlucky that this group felt comfy sufficient to show its venom and ignorance on a Louisville metropolis road. It’s going to by no means be tolerated.”
Mayor Greenberg condemned the march in a social media submit on Saturday. “Earlier at the moment, a white supremacist group briefly marched downtown. I strongly condemn this group, their message and their exercise. Whereas the remainder of our metropolis is celebrating our nation’s freedoms this weekend, they’re centered on hate and haven’t any place in our metropolis or anyplace else,” Greenberg wrote.
Patriot Entrance is a white supremacist group that shaped after the Charlottesville “Unite the Proper” rally in 2017. A cursory take a look at their manifesto reveals such gems like “An African, for instance, might have lived, labored, and even been classed as a citizen in America for hundreds of years, but he isn’t American…The identical rule applies to others who are usually not of the founding inventory of our individuals.”
Wow, they completely don’t sound like each different weirdo white boy with web entry, poor social abilities, and method an excessive amount of time on their fingers.
Patriot Entrance’s Louisville march had males waving Accomplice flags, Three Percenter flags, and carrying riot shields. Whereas they had been daring sufficient to exit marching, they drew the road at displaying their faces, as video of the march reveals all of the Patriot Entrance members wore masks and sun shades.
It’s strikes like that that go to point out how weak these males actually are. If you wish to actually exhibit how powerful you’re, take the masks off and stand 10 toes in your beliefs. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg had the identical power, telling the members of Patriot Entrance, “When you’re so happy with your beliefs, present your face,” throughout an interview with LPM Information.
Patriot Entrance apparently violated a number of metropolis ordinances throughout their march, together with a 1983 ban on sporting masks in public. Louisville residents voiced concern and confusion as to why the ban wasn’t enforced in the course of the Patriot Entrance’s march.
“We’ve got not been imposing the masks ban ordinance on individuals which can be exerting their First Modification proper, whether or not it’s this hateful, disgusting group or different teams which can be sporting masks as nicely,” the mayor informed LPM. “We might revisit that, however for proper now we haven’t achieved that.”
The Louisville chapter of the NAACP known as on extra native companies to talk out towards the Patriot Entrance march. “I assume what I might ask for is for each group, each enterprise, each elected official in our metropolis to make a public assertion condemning what has taken place to suggest that, as a group, throughout all these teams, we’re unified and never wanting or accepting what befell yesterday,” Burse mentioned.
Patriot Entrance has performed a number of related marches over the previous couple of years in cities throughout the nation. Earlier this yr, a choose ordered the group to pay musician Charles Murrell III $2.7 million after they yelled racial slurs and assaulted him throughout a 2022 march in Boston.
Patriot Entrance wasn’t the one white nationalist group making headlines during the last week, as California police arrested one other member of the transnational white nationalist group “Terrorgram Collective” for doxxing a number of federal officers as a way to solicit their deaths.
This all comes within the wake of the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle revealing hate teams have really gone down during the last yr. This ought to be excellent news, however who’re we kidding? That is America we’re speaking about. After all, the one motive hate teams have gone down is because of white nationalist beliefs turning into so normalized within the mainstream, it’s eliminated any want for them to arrange.
Oh, America. By no means cease doing you. (However severely, for the love of all that’s holy, please cease doing you. I’m so, so drained.)
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