Civil rights groups will converge on Washington, D.C. to protest white supremacist rally

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KAY WICKER at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/civil-rights-groups-protest-dc-white-supremacist-rally-7663cd8b297d/

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Black Lives Matter DC has announced it will hold a counter-protest against the “White Civil Rights Rally” planned for Sunday, August 12 near the White House.

After learning last month that the National Park Service had accepted a permit for the white supremacist rally, which is being organized by those responsible for the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville last year, BLM organizers were left feeling frustrated, according to D.C.-based WTTG. The group decided to channel its disappointment into direct action, organizing its own rally to counter the narrative being pushed by the “White Civil Rights” demonstrators.

“We are stronger than they are…they are resistant to change and to progress that Black Lives Matter has been doing over the last four years with black liberation and fighting racism and fascism,” Makia Green of BLM DC told WTTG. “So it’s important that we let D.C. and the rest of the world know that we are not going to stand for the hate.”

Adding to the mounting anxiety surrounding the August 12 rally is the fact that it was deliberately scheduled on the one-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, during which one woman, Heather Heyer, was killed after a rally attendee drove his car into a group of counter-protesters.

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[kimbutgar]

1. I hope the civil rights group stays safe

I would not put it past the white nazis to shoot black people who are counter protesting them. This could ignite into something really ugly in this country. We are at a level that things are highly flammable. Everyday seeing these incidents of white people attacking innocent black and brown people And the police brutality could set off a firestorm.

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2. The police are not going to be brutal. They will keep the two groups apart as they should.

I for one would not want to be at a counter demonstration to racists without the police present. Look at the violence that happened in Charlottsville. What happens if a nazi with a car drives into another crowd of demonstrators? Don't you want him arrested immediately?