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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 03:45 PM Aug 2017

Woman Protects Trump Supporters From Crowd, Showing Us How To Combat Hate

Source: Huffington Post

A woman demonstrated perfectly how best to tackle hate, as she helped supporters of President Donald Trump navigate through a crowd that was yelling and spitting at them during a rally in Boston Saturday.

The woman, a 19-year-old named Imani from Connecticut, told the Boston Globe she couldn’t think of a better way to counter much of the hate that’s bubbled to the surface in America than helping people with whom she disagreed.

“You know, I don’t believe in this right-wing narrative of the alt-left and how we are crazed and looking to get nonviolent,” she told the Globe. “What better way to show them they are wrong?”

Imani, who is black, told the Globe she didn’t think white supremacists would give her the same kind of help she gave on Saturday, but that didn’t matter. “I couldn’t get through a KKK rally with the same treatment,” she said. “But we shouldn’t be like them.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-protects-trump-supporters_us_599888c6e4b0a2608a6cabd9?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009



This is how you do it!
This is who we are!
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Woman Protects Trump Supporters From Crowd, Showing Us How To Combat Hate (Original Post) Stonepounder Aug 2017 OP
Very moving. Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2017 #1
A very strong, smart and loving young woman! She rocks! nt logosoco Aug 2017 #2
THIS is the story that should be on the national & local news tonight stuffmatters Aug 2017 #3
and, even better... pat_k Aug 2017 #4
Dayum! calimary Aug 2017 #5
"... then we take the high road..." fierywoman Aug 2017 #6
She's my new hero. Squinch Aug 2017 #7
Yeah shenmue Aug 2017 #8
This image is the difference.. Bladewire Aug 2017 #9
"...we shouldn't be like them." Exactly. (nt) scarletwoman Aug 2017 #10
K and R BadgerMom Aug 2017 #11
I suppose its the Maxheader Aug 2017 #12
That is why we are better than they are. The Mouth Aug 2017 #14
Welcome to DU, Maxheader. calimary Aug 2017 #18
Who we are! zentrum Aug 2017 #13
alt-left???? Demonaut Aug 2017 #15
wondering the same thing. xor Aug 2017 #22
Nobody has yet to come up with SCantiGOP Aug 2017 #16
I vomit a little but it's brilliant Juliusseizure Aug 2017 #17
We'll never defeat them by out-hating them. FrodosNewPet Aug 2017 #19
Only Love can Conquer Hate Martin Eden Aug 2017 #20
I appreciate this line of thought and action. xor Aug 2017 #21
Do we know who was spitting on them? MichMan Aug 2017 #23

pat_k

(10,676 posts)
4. and, even better...
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 03:57 PM
Aug 2017

...turn their hateful rallies into extremely visible fund raisers for anti-hate cause, as in the town of Wunsiedel.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029487449

I love how confused they look the first year Wunsiedel did this:



calimary

(84,021 posts)
5. Dayum!
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 03:59 PM
Aug 2017

She's a far better person than I think I could be, toward these people. There are angels among us. All I can do is hope I'm worthy to stand near them.

 

Bladewire

(381 posts)
9. This image is the difference..
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 05:13 PM
Aug 2017

When the alt-right is the majority at a rally





I'd choose being minority alt right and being bood & spit on in Boston than being minority left being beaten with pipes and murdered in Charlottesville

When the alt right is the majority people are murdered and beaten.

Maxheader

(4,393 posts)
12. I suppose its the
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 06:16 PM
Aug 2017

right thing to do. But its hard for me, doubting
the right would do this for the liberals.

calimary

(84,021 posts)
18. Welcome to DU, Maxheader.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 11:28 PM
Aug 2017

Yeah, I know how you feel. It's hard to imagine one of these young toughs would stop long enough to find his humanity. One could certainly hope so. At least we know that lovely Imani is out there somewhere.

SCantiGOP

(14,156 posts)
16. Nobody has yet to come up with
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 09:45 PM
Aug 2017

a better blueprint for resistance and change than the Ghandi, King, Mandela model.

Juliusseizure

(562 posts)
17. I vomit a little but it's brilliant
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 11:06 PM
Aug 2017

That's the only possible (w/low probability) way to effect them internally. I don't think many know minorities on a personal level especially the younger ones.

xor

(1,204 posts)
21. I appreciate this line of thought and action.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 02:35 PM
Aug 2017

Also, is this "alt-left" term becoming an actual thing? The only reason why I use the term alt-right is because they title themselves as such, and they are a fairly clearly define group. I also avoid labeling everyone who is more conservative than me as alt-right as some people have started doing.

What exactly is alt-left supposed to be? Up until the last week I've never heard anyone call themselves alt-left. Maybe I read her comment wrong and she isn't saying she's "alt-left", but just commenting on their usage of it while pushing the violent left narrative.

MichMan

(13,015 posts)
23. Do we know who was spitting on them?
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 03:40 PM
Aug 2017

Kudos to her for doing what she did, but why did they need to be protected?

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