#WhiteLivesMatter :: Is Bad for EVERYONE, including certain White Lives
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Over the weekend, white nationalists gathered in Tennessee to stage protests. One of them was shut down thanks to the vigilance of counter protesters. The other? Well, it ended with a white woman being assaulted by a participant in the white nationalist movement.
White supremacists, neo-Nazis, and fascists all descended upon two Tennessee towns on Saturday for “White Lives Matter” rallies, striking fear into communities so desperate to avoid the kind of violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia recently. An umbrella group of white supremacist organizations called the Nationalist Front held its first rally early Saturday morning in Shelbyville, a town of 21,000 about an hour south of Nashville.
Police stood between some 200 counter-protesters and various white supremacist factions as they exchanged chants. At least one white supremacist was seen throwing up a Nazi salute, while others, carrying shields and wearing helmets, chanted “White lives matter” and “Blood and soil.” Counterprotesters heckled them from the other side of the street, offering free genetic testing to the so-called “master race.” Ha-ha!
Later in the afternoon, the groups planned to move to the main event: a rally in the town of Murfreesboro, a larger college town 25 miles back toward Nashville. But because of the much greater showing by counter protestors, it was canceled. Great job!
I have a few thoughts on the #whitelivesmatter movement, but so did many of you. One theme that emerged was that while #WhiteLivesMatter is a direct response to BlackLivesMatter, other lives are threatened too by this showing of white nationalism and supremacy.
Eugene Gu on Twitter said:
“As an Asian American, these #WhiteLivesMatter rallies along with the death threats I’ve received makes me fear for my life in Tennessee.” He goes on to say further in a thread – “I’ve already been physically assaulted and called a chink in the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital Parking garage. Now I wonder what’s next.” “In fact,” Gu continues, “I get so many death threats the Vanderbilt police called me last week and opened an Intimidation Report. America is changing.”
@PassportControl on Twitter said:
“If hundreds of Muslims gathered wearing body armor to rally about our Islamic pride, we’d be rounded up and deported.”
@AngieMarieEG – a Latina – sent a message saying:
“Hi, #WhiteLivesMatter Group, please stop saying “we are not going to be replaced”. A bit of melanin is not scary.” I’m sorry,
@AngieMarieEG, but melanin is scary – especially when you think you are devoid of it…which brings me to this comment by @US_EmperorTrump:
“#WhiteLivesMatter? Don’t you mean European descendants whose DNA will also show Middle Eastern and African traces lives matter?”
Yikes – now you know they are not trying to hear that history lesson…the evolution of what we now call “white”. It’s not the part of the story they are trying to focus on, even though the whole white pride thing is an effort to try to purge any and all of black and middle eastern from their DNA. Which explains what happened in Brentwood, Tennessee shortly after the white power rallies fizzled out.
Police are searching for a white man who allegedly hit a white woman who was sitting with a black man in a pub after “White Lives Matter” rallies were held in Tennessee. According to eyewitnesses statements in the Police Report, here is what indisputably happened:
a couple a 30 year old white woman and a 37 year old Black man were sitting at a table in a pub when a group of 20-30 white men and women entered the restaurant. They sat at a table behind the couple when, according to the woman, one of the individual asked to “guess”. She responded, “White Lives Matter”. Another said “that’s right” and told her to join their table and leave her boyfriend. The argument inside escalated even after the female victim had gone outside to deescalate the situation. After another woman in the group reportedly began to argue with the victim, a man struck her in the face with his fist, causing a cut above her eye.
Check out this video of the altercation:
Here’s the best question to of all of this, so succinctly stated by #hengebeat:
“which white lives do #WhiteLivesMatter actually care about? Not women who exercise reproductive rights, not LGBTQ lives, not the poor…
not the trans folks, not those struggling on minimum wage, not the disabled, not the mentally ill??? Who then??”
The desire to keep the straight white man superior for infinity is strong. And, that strong desire isn’t adverse to violence against anyone or anything that stands in its way or reminds them of the revolution for which they are fighting. And, so for my one thought on this topic – I’m not going to sit here and let ya’ll think that showing love and kindness can be the sole weapons we use to play both offense and defense.
