Posted on 04/01/2017 6:19:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Students and residents in Charlottesville, Virginia, protested Republican Rep. Tom Garrett’s first town hall Friday with a massive sign stating “no dialogue with white supremacy” and chants including “say it loud, say it clear: immigrants are welcome here.”
Garrett met with protests both inside and outside of the building at the University of Virginia where he hosted the town hall, reports NBC 29. Both Showing Up for Racial Justice and UVA Students United organized the protests.
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“[W]e refuse to give him a platform to spout his politics of racial terror and white supremacy,” the Charlottesville chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice said in a Facebook post. “Engaging in polite conversation with Garrett normalizes his extreme views and allows them to spread. Instead, we need to disrupt this language and these policies in order to make space to create a world in which we can all be liberated from the damning violence of white supremacy that has built and structured this nation since its inception through settler colonialism and racial chattel slavery.”
The group accused Rep. Garrett of running for Congress on a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, and “anti-social” platform.
Garrett’s protesters had several chants, including “Tom Garrett, go away; no racist USA,” “If we don’t get it, shut it down,” and “no ban, no registry; f*** white supremacy.”
Some supporters of President Trump were also present. They displayed Trump and Pence signs and shouted “Trump, Trump, Trump,” repeatedly, while one man shouted “illegal immigrants have to go” into a mic.
Rep. Garrett discussed a number of subjects, including Obamacare, Russia’s role in the 2016 election, gun rights, and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
“[Obamacare] was sold to us on a promise that our premiums would drop by $2,500 dollars a year and it didn’t,” Garrett said. “That if we liked our doctor we could keep them, we couldn’t. That if we liked our plan, we could keep it. We couldn’t.”
“I absolutely, positively believe that there was an effort by the Russians to influence the elections,” he added. “… If someone can show me evidence that a single vote was changed, then I would say that’s tantamount to an act of war, but I haven’t seen it from anywhere.”
He expressed support for gun rights, and said he generally endorsed pipelines, but did not like how the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was proceeding.
Ultimately there is only one way this is going to end.
I would advise everyone to stay healthy and practice.
I’m not getting any younger...
Wish they’d hurry it up.
They are refugees from Mexican White Spaniards who have screwed up Mexico from the beginning.
Yeah me too. Drink alkaline water, it helps qute a bit.
White supremacy goes; Islamic supremacy takes its place (the blacks have got to go in their calculus, also, because the Dems need the Spanish types for extra votes and the Latin types take black jobs).
These people are the equivalent of Hitler’s Brownshirts or Mao’s Red Guards.
They disrupt, they shout meaningless slogans, and they intimidate. Unless it is stopped, they will become ever-more emboldened.
I remember when you had to be somewhat intelligent to be admitted to UVA.
The news in that area is full of black racist and extreme radicals. They always overblow how big the protest are. The news hates conservatives.
Things like this draw me dangerously close to a line I never ever imagined crossing: declaring that some people truly are, by virtue of their choice to be stupid, a waste of life.
Come on man. It didn’t end that way before WWI when there were LOTS of German sympathizers.
It didn’t end that way in the ‘60s, which was a disaster.
And 85 percent accept Trump as president.
Your fantasies of glory in battle will have to stay just that for now, a fantasy :)
I laugh every time I read one of these comments.
There will be groups like the Weather Underground etc., but your war won’t come
Sorry :)
Bunch of privileged white kids is all I saw.
If they’re feeling so much guilt for being white, they really should all just go off themselves.
They’re also welcome to give up their seat inside this university to possibly make room for someone less privileged. They should also give up mom and dad’s trust fund too. Otherwise, they’re just a bunch of sorry hypocrites.
They be been taken over by the leftist crowd. Some of the protesters no doubt don’t go there. Probably 25 people or a few more. The media there is crazy.
They be been taken over by the leftist crowd. Some of the protesters no doubt don’t go there. Probably 25 people or a few more. The media there is crazy.
It is the religion of hate that believes executions of their enemies (the hard working white people) will perfect society. What they don’t realize is that a 45 ACP between the eyes by the white people who don’t want to be executed is the real solution.
Legal immigrants are welcome here to a point. Illegal aliens never!
The swamp gas at the school is causing yet another UFO sighting, where UFO = Unauthorized Fascist Object.
Showing Up for Racial Justice ......
..must another Soros DNC ODUNGO backed rent
a mob
Especially legals who create jobs or serve our citizens.
:)
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