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video belowStop Telling Me What to Do!: MAGA Supporter Crashes Out at Black Author Book Talk After Getting the Boot for Spewing Racist Insults
On May 21, Black author Dr. LaTonya Rease Miles appeared at a book talk to promote her new memoir, Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story. Attendees gathered at the quaint James M. Duncan Branch Library in Alexandria, Virginia, hoping to get their books signed and to hear Miles inspiring story of being the first in her family to attend and graduate from a four-year university.
Instead, they got an earful from a belligerent Trump supporter who crashed the reading.
This is not Nazi Germany! I dont need to do anything. Stop telling me what to do, shouted the older white man.
According to the caption of the now viral video, he infiltrated what appears to have been the book talk from March 17 and began heckling the author and harassing her with racist rants. Decked out in a fiery red Make America Great Again t-shirt, the man refused to calm down or lower his voice, and likened library security to Nazi Germany, communist China, and the f-cking USSR when they told him to shush.
Link to tweet
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/10/08/maga-supporter-crashes-out-at-black-author/
Klarkashton
(5,422 posts)Skittles
(172,895 posts)AZJonnie
(4,035 posts)I'm impressed everyone there kept their cool like they did.
What a fucking DICK.
John1956PA
(5,119 posts)They know not to jump at the bait, which would result in them getting accused of starting a confrontation.
AZJonnie
(4,035 posts)And that is part of why I'd have felt compelled to leverage my white privilege against his in that scenario.
NBachers
(19,576 posts)rictofen
(270 posts)Whew boy.
Calling a child having a public meltdown a "white demon seed" with a future of "meth use whoring" was a good one, but my personal favorite? He blames local Democratic politicians for the ICE raid situation, because they "packed" migrants and "illegals" into black communities.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,009 posts)Torchlight
(7,066 posts)What cause? Well... 'cause they're idiots.
Clouds Passing
(8,196 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,009 posts)To express hate
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