White supremacists to march in Jena on MLK Day
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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, when the nation pauses to reflect on the slain civil rights leader’s life and legacy.
But while King Day commemorations unfold in churches and other venues across the country, one gathering on the streets of Jena, La., today will take the form of a protest to express an anti-King message.
The Nationalist Movement, a Mississippi-based group that is reputed to be a white supremacy organization, pledged to have its “No to Jena Six, No to MLK� parade following the march on Jena last year, according to published reports.
The group’s members had been asked to carry firearms and nooses at the protest, but the organization’s administration has since asked that the weapons and nooses be left at home.
Counter-protests are planned.
Civil rights advocates across the country had expressed strong concerns about a white supremacist backlash in the wake of the September march on Jena that drew an estimated 20,000 people.
The marchers had gathered to support of six black Louisiana teens whose prosecutions have drawn charges of racism and Jim Crow-era injustice.
The six students were accused in the 2006 beating of a white student in an incident that was the culmination of months of racial unrest at Jena High School in north Louisiana.
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Here’s a multiracial website and forum area. White supremacists are a minority. Many whites have never been nor will be racist. However the feeling of guilt for something we didnt do is always looming.
http://www.wacan.org/
also there’s
http://www.euroamerican.org/
please read carefully, knee jerk reaction is its a white supremacist sites. they arent just the opposite. It is run but many people of many different ethnicities.
A good friend of mine founded both and has a multiracial family as do I.
So instead of talking about those promoting hate, please talk about those trying to promote peace and understanding..
Thanx