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"White Power" Yelled From The Stands At Donald Trump's Alabama Rally
This was not an isolated incident. It was yelled out multiple times by people in the crowd, repeatedly, you can check for yourself by re-watching the rally, or by glancing through comment threads from websites where people were watching the rally and searching for the term "white power". For example:
OH KEK SOMEONE SAID WHITE POWER
Anonymous 21 August 2015, 16:57
WHITE POWER
DID ANYONE HEAR THAT??
Anonymous 21 August 2015, 16:28
DID THAT GUY JUST YELL WHITE POWER????!!!
Anonymous 21 August 2015, 16:45
It's the third or fourth time I've heard it
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/22/1414429/-They-Yelled-White-Power-From-the-Stands-at-Donald-Trump-s-Alabama-Rally#
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White Supremacists Flock To Donald Trump After He Reveals Himself As A Racist
Author: Vera July 1, 2015 6:35 pm
While its been fun to watch GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump lose several business relationships as a consequence of his racist statements about Mexican immigrants, those same comments have apparently won him some die-hard fans.
While Univision, NBC and Macys have all severed their relationship with the real estate mogul, another demographic has come forward in support: white supremacists. Despite the fact that Trumps hate speech has cost him millions of dollars, racists are rooting for him as Trump continues to stand by what he calls his totally accurate anti-immigrant rant.
One of these new fans is Andres Anglin, who blogs on neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. Praising the man who he affectionately refers to as The Don, Anglin wrote, I do not believe he would solve all or even most of the problems we are facing, but he is absolutely the only candidate who is even talking about anything at all that matters. Anglin also spoke with admiration of Trump, because the Republican candidate was willing to call them out as criminal rapists, murderers and drug dealers.
Trump also has the support of white supremacist and Council of Conservative Citizens member Kyle Rogers. If you need a refresher, the Council of Conservative Citizens is the hate group that Charleston massacre gunman Dylann Roof credited for radicalizing him. Although Rogers deleted his Twitter account after Roof shot nine black churchgoers dead on June 17, activist Shaun King was able to provide a screenshot of Rogers promoting shirts that said Donald Trump 2016? to his Twitter followers the day before the shooting.
Read more:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/07/01/white-supremacists-flock-to-donald-trump-after-he-reveals-himself-as-a-racist-image/
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Read all the info at the links to see the kind of people The Donald is attracting.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)T Rump will be out with a statement along about Tuesday, denouncing something or other. My bet is he will be denouncing the people who noticed the racists at his rally, and he will call them divisive or the real racists.
The popular media will know what's right and proper, but will confess themselves conflicted and retreat into "reasonable people disagree about what it means."
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but does anyone get a weird feeling about this? Maybe he isn't a Hitler, but judging by the people around me (work, not family) he is REALLY tapping into the racist/scape goat seeking part of some Americans.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)But this asshole is playing with high explosives.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and his supporters are (dangerously) armed.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)is what this looks like
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)It looks like the "God, Gays and Guns" crowds aren't coming back to the fold by focusing on economic messages.