Is it wrong for me to hope these ideologically similar groups annihilate one another while I watch?
Posted on 07/29/2018 8:51:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Washington, D.C., chapter of Black Lives Matter is planning to stage a counter-protest against the "White Civil Rights" rally scheduled to take place near the White House next month.
The organizer of last year's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., received a permit in July to host a similar rally on Aug. 12 in the nation's capital.
The Black Lives Matter activists told a local Fox affiliate that they are disappointed the National Park Service approved a permit for the white nationalist protest.
Black Lives Matter and Shut It Down DC are calling on "all anti-fascists and people of good conscience" to join their counterprotest of the rally from Aug 10-12.
"This is for Heather Heyer, Corey Long, Deandre Harris, ICE abolition, open borders, dismantling the prison industrial complex, and ending the settler colonial system," the group wrote in a statement. "We will confront fascism, antisemitism, islamophobia, white supremacy, and state violence on August 10-12."
Jason Kessler, the white nationalist organizer, said he expects 400 people to attend in support of the rally.
Last year's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, which was attended and organized by hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, turned violent and left one counter-protestor dead after a man with ties to white supremacist groups drove into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring 19 and killing Charlottesville resident Heather Heyer.
Kessler withdrew his petition to organize a second Charlottesville rally this August, but he is going ahead with the event in D.C.
The D.C. chapter of Black Lives Matter told Fox 5 that they are planning to provide training sessions for counterprotesters in anticipation of safety concerns.
"We are stronger than they are, that they are resistant to change and to progress that Black Lives Matter has been doing over the last four years with black liberation and fighting racism and fascism,” Makia Green, a member of of Black Lives Matter DC, told Fox 5. "So it's important that we let D.C. and rest of the world know that we are not going to stand for the hate."
The "White Civil Rights" rally is scheduled to take place in Lafayette Park, near the White House.
A different Black Lives Matter chapter is also planning to hold a march from New York City to Washington, D.C., on the anniversary of the Charlottesville rally. The march will start in New York on Aug. 3 and end with a rally at the D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
“[This] will be remembered in history as the day that Americans of all colors and religions united against hate to say, ‘There is no place for bigotry and racism in America,’” activist Hawk Newsome told the New York Daily News.
Well hell,who didnt see this coming?
Is it White History month already?
No doubt the Pink Pussy Hats and Antifa will join in.
If its on a week day the rally will be small, only a few so called fascists and a huge crowd of BLM and the usual $15+ an hour paid protestors with their preprinted propaganda signs. With the MAGA economy, there are fewer people to attend, because they’re too busy working, wile the working is good.
“wile?, OMG I’m now as dumb as Trump, I can’t spell while, but if I take my time and don’t rush it my spelling improves. My finger always miss and sometime add letters that should not be there. Grammar nazi, I confessed.
Kessler’s not about “rights for whites.” Dollar to a donut he’s just trying to help the Democrats motivate their black base by performing some street theater with BLM.
Probably works for or in coordination with the SPLC.
what do you think Cortez’ “2 jobs” quote was about? Because she knows all her friends get paid in their 2nd job as protestors!
The former Occupy Wall Street organizer and CNN contributor turned "white nationalist".
ROFL you beat me to it while I was pinging you :-)
And timed to heat things up for the midterms.
I forgot his CNN connection. I suppose CNN will have box seats.
Exactly.
It’d be kind of funny if a bunch of folks dressed in chef’s hats and aprons and clown noses showed up with cream pies to hurl at both “sides” of agitators.
Total false flag
Black Lives Matter hates civil rights!
White racists against black racists. What’s the worst that could happen.
One anonymous source claimed that he was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement and previously supported President Barack Obama. People who know Kessler have confirmed that he previously voted for Democrats.[14]
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.