Proud Boys, Black Lives Matter leaders hold joint conference: We 'denounce White supremacy'

Washington Times ^ | 10/1/20 | Jessica Chasmar

[Impala64ssa]

Local leaders of the right-wing group Proud Boys in Salt Lake City held a joint news conference with a local Black Lives Matter leader on Wednesday to correct the record and “denounce White supremacy” after President Trump mentioned them during TuesdayÂ’s first presidential debate.

I will go out and say that the Proud Boys as a whole "I will say this on behalf of the entire national organization denounce White supremacy,” the chief of the Proud Boys Salt Lake Utah Chapter, who only gave the name Thad, told reporters, FOX13 reported. “We are in no way, shape or form White supremacists,” Thad said. “We have a vetting system that gets those people out of our hair. We do not have anything to do with White supremacy. We do not have anything to do with the Ku Klux Klan. We denounce those organizations.” “I will go out and say that the #ProudBoys as a whole, I will say this on behalf of the entire national organization, denounce white supremacy.” - Thad, Chief of the Proud Boys Salt Lake Utah

“I don’t care what color your skin is, we’re all Americans, and we need to find a way to come together instead of divide” the group’s president, who only gave the name Seth, told reporters during a joint news conference in Washington Square Park, KUTV reported. Thad and Seth appeared alongside Jacarri Kelley, the leader of Black Lives Matter Northern Utah chapter, which is unaffiliated with Black Lives Matter Utah. “We do need to be able to reach across the aisle and have these tough conversations,” Ms. Kelley said. She said she recently met with Proud Boys leaders in Portland, Oregon, and that they had a “productive conversation,” KUTV reported.

[Impala64ssa]

Tweets at link. Is Jacarri Kelley a "kinder and gentler" BLM member? The Proud Boys cleaned up their act, when will BLM, or are they hard wired to be the same haters they accuse their enemies of being?

[Fai Mao]

This is interesting.

[Starcitizen]

But no denunciation of Black Supremacy

[Jim W N]

We 'denounce White supremacy existence'

[nickcarraway]

Why would anyone support this organization? PB is just an organization of pseudo-antifa lefty snowflakes.

[Veggie Todd]

That would be rassist and sheeeet.

[jetson]

Denounce Ethnic Supremacy.

[House Atreides]

“...The Proud Boys cleaned up their act...”
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I’m not sure they had anything to “clean up”.

[mylife]

Idiotic

[proust]

Exactly. The fix is in.

[dfwgator]

I support freedom of association, even of groups I disagree with.

[mylife]

I aint no commie Thad

[Datom69]

after President Trump mentioned them during TuesdayÂ’s first presidential debate.
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It just never stops. Wallace and Biden mentioned Proud Boys first!!!!!!

[plain talk]

Probably good that they did this. But it is sad that organizations are reduced to having to prove that they are innocent and prove they don’t beat their wives or bury kittens alive.

This will prolong the news cycle but it won’t be enough. the Left will come back with more allegations and drag it out.

[MHGinTN]

One need only read what the BLM movement is founded upon, juxtaposed with what the Proud Boys were founded upon, to see that BLM is a racist hate group. And isn’t the spelling is Klu Klux Klan?

[ifinnegan]

Lol.

Amazing.

Press are such buffoons.

[Fai Mao]

It will totally flummox the left if BLM and Proud Boys unite against Antifa.

[kara37]

And isn’t the spelling is Klu Klux Klan?

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No

[Eagles6]

Proud Boys, in a joint news conference with an anti White, black supremacist terror cult...

[MHGinTN]

So it is Ku Klux Klan?