The confederate flag was flying high in front of the National Association for the Advancement of People of Color (NAACP) offices in Houston this weekend. “If they’re going to be a civil rights organization and defend their people, they also need to hold their people accountable”. “Obviously we’re exercising our Second Amendment rights but that’s because we have to defend ourselves”, Reed told the Chronicle. “We’re not. We definitely will defend ourselves, but we’re not out here to start any problems”.
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The protesters said that they were speaking out against Black Lives Matter for focusing on black victims of police violence.
On Sunday afternoon, a group of armed white supremacists surrounded the NAACP building in Houston, Texas, with banners that read, among other things, “white lives matter”.
Black residents were stunned by the group’s Confederate flags and assault rifles.
“I’m not neutral in injustice”, Burton said after the incident. Do we come to your neighborhoods?
Reed said the group wasn’t there to cause problems and that the Confederate flags were being flown to symbolize Southern heritage. “It has all to do about heritage, nothing to do with hate”.
With the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, a number of American cities have seen violent clashes between protesters and police.
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Video of the protest shows members of the group chanting “obey the law and you won’t get shot”. The term reflects the primary white supremacist worldview in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: that unless immediate action is taken, the white race is doomed to extinction by an alleged “rising tide of color” purportedly controlled and manipulated by Jews. An African-American man walked up to the barricade and began asking the White Lives Matters crowd questions, the Chronicle reported.
