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‘White Supremacy’s Got To Go’: Students Protest Virginia Republican
The Daily Caller ^ | April 1, 2017 | Rob Shimshock

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.


TOPICS: Virginia; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: 5thdistrict; congress; garrett; gop; protests; racialjustice; republicans; thomasgarrett; tomgarrett; trump; virginia
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To: PGR88

The question is who will do the stopping?

All effective leaders had a security apparatus to exterminate and harass domestic enemies that were working against the national interest.

The current Administration doesn’t have such an animal.

This is not rocket science, it’s politics 101.

Trump and the hard right either do what needs to be done, or admit defeat.


41 posted on 04/01/2017 7:37:46 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: dp0622

You have no idea what youre saying about me if you think I want this.

Whites are the new jews. Look at europe. It is being overwhelmed. Everywhere white are there are groups of more and more vocal people, with backing of academia and government, that are publicly calling for the murder of white people. That only whites can be racist, that only whites are the source of the worlds problems, and they all must die.


42 posted on 04/01/2017 7:38:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then what about 0’s act of war against Israel when he interfered in their elections? Silly congressman, Russian interference is a dimocrat talking point. It is a lie. Lies are not acts of war.


43 posted on 04/01/2017 7:40:48 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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What you are looking at is the failure of parents to carry out their parenting responsibilities. Leaving it instead to the teachers of their children, and this is the result. Stupidity of major proportions.

44 posted on 04/01/2017 8:03:07 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Nuc 1.1
Yes, but then 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 didn't say that Russia tried to influence the election to benefit Trump. But let's be honest, all major countries try to influence elections in other countries. we do it, Russia does it, China does it, and most likely a host of other nations do as well. So there is no doubt Russia tried to influence our election process, and we fully expect them to do so.

45 posted on 04/01/2017 8:08:20 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

I noticed a very professional Planned Parenthood sign in the background. Nothing epitomizes godless white supremacy more than abortion heroine Margaret Sanger, the eugenicist.


46 posted on 04/01/2017 8:55:07 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then why weren’t the protestors at a Democrat’s office?


47 posted on 04/01/2017 8:59:42 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Yep, they have no problem denying entrance into this country by the innocent unborn child, but we must not stop the entrance of those who quite possibly are coming to destroy us. I always said irony escapes these people at every turn.


48 posted on 04/01/2017 9:05:21 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Simple math seems to elude them.... the nation is 70% white.... in a democratic republic, where they are CLEARLY on board with racial identity politics, is is virtually impossible mathematically to eliminate white majorities in government.


49 posted on 04/01/2017 9:21:10 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In Hispanic countries, it’s Hispanic supremacy, in African countries, it’s black supremacy, and in Asian countries, it’s arab supremacy - which all of them believe they are entitled to. Until they all renounce their senses of supremacies, and allow white peoples to vote, own land and live in peace in their countries, whites should have no dialogue with them! Take that, you racist world majorities who are bullying us world minorities!


50 posted on 04/01/2017 10:09:44 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ef’n communist terrorist scumbags threatening everyone not joining them while pretending to wage the good fight


51 posted on 04/01/2017 10:23:41 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Secret Agent Man

i apologize


52 posted on 04/01/2017 10:39:03 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The defamation from the charge of White Supremacy is the new racism.


53 posted on 04/01/2017 11:16:09 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They must not know the history of the KKK and the democrat party.


54 posted on 04/01/2017 11:28:08 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These honky snowflake maggots are seeing “white supremacy” everywhere all of a sudden? Too much booze and drugs on “spring break” or are they all just brainwashed into total mental retardism?


55 posted on 04/01/2017 11:54:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain has got to go. The boy is crazy.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s not “either/or”.


56 posted on 04/02/2017 12:04:31 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: dp0622

No problem. :)


57 posted on 04/02/2017 12:37:19 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I almost always admit when I’m wrong. Unless it’s with the wife :) and then I just assume I am wrong


58 posted on 04/02/2017 1:00:18 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brainwashed liberals...hey snowflakes, shut up and learn something...the illegals will take your jobs, jerks...


59 posted on 04/02/2017 5:38:59 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wish we would collectively stop calling illegal immigrants “immigrants”....

In this sense Europe makes a clearer distinction... economic ‘migrants’ vs refugees.

migrants come for money, not a new life or adopting a new country.


60 posted on 04/02/2017 8:00:34 AM PDT by Katya
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