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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 01:54 PM Aug 2015

"White Power" Yelled From The Stands At Trump's Alabama Rally

"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:

Anonymous 21 August 2015, 16:52
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 it’s 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 Macy’s have all severed their relationship with the real estate mogul, another demographic has come forward in support: white supremacists. Despite the fact that Trump’s 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.
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"White Power" Yelled From The Stands At Trump's Alabama Rally (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Aug 2015 OP
Trump’s Alabama ‘pep rally’ brings out folks who want to shoot ‘illegals’ at the border Cali_Democrat Aug 2015 #1
Next stop Philadelphia, Mississippi? nt DURHAM D Aug 2015 #2
That wasn't from the podium? My bad..... Motown_Johnny Aug 2015 #3
Just another "passionate" T Rump fan gratuitous Aug 2015 #4
Maybe I am over-inflating Trump awoke_in_2003 Aug 2015 #5
Mussolini is a closer comparison, IMO hifiguy Aug 2015 #6
Yeah, that fits better... awoke_in_2003 Aug 2015 #9
George Wallace or Strom Thurmond ericson00 Aug 2015 #7
Holy Shit, people still do this shit? seveneyes Aug 2015 #8
Who let Clayton Bigsby into a Trump rally? Arkana Aug 2015 #10
k&r Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #11

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Just another "passionate" T Rump fan
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 03:01 PM
Aug 2015

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)
5. Maybe I am over-inflating Trump
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 09:08 PM
Aug 2015

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.

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
11. k&r
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 09:33 PM
Aug 2015

It looks like the "God, Gays and Guns" crowds aren't coming back to the fold by focusing on economic messages.

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