How inconvenient for all those white “sowflake” Republican legislators around the country trying to whitewash America’s white supremacy violent history from the history books. White supremacy is alive and well and in your face on the nightly news. Oh my, how will we ever explain it to the children?
There has been a significant increase in white supremacy hate crimes since Doanld Trump’s seditious insurrection on January 6, 2021: SF police data shows 567% increase in reports of hate crimes against Asian Americans, and this Separate ‘Nazi’ protests held in central Florida over the weekend:
More than a dozen self-proclaimed Nazis yelled antisemitic slogans outside a Florida shopping plaza and waved a swastika flag from a highway overpass before authorities broke them up over the weekend.
The demonstrators, wearing Nazi garb, protested at an intersection near the University of Central Florida on Saturday and on a highway overpass on Sunday.
Actual NAZIS about 5 minutes from where I live in a shopping center I go to all the time, somewhere my Jewish self will now never go alone. Makes me sick. Orlando is beautiful and diverse. We don’t want you here as much as you don’t want us. pic.twitter.com/y8W0Cm0kVn
— Eva (@evabrooke_26) January 30, 2022
This was seen today driving east on I4 heading from Orlando to Tampa. What is happening in Florida? I hear anger from @CarlosGSmith and @AnnaForFlorida but silence from @GovRonDeSantis pic.twitter.com/xmZwZuyyus
— RohBeeGyn (@rbrapkin) January 30, 2022
One video posted to Twitter showed members of the group doing the Nazi salute and shouting anti-Semitic slurs at drivers. The video has racked up more than 2.7 million views so far.
During Saturday’s demonstration, some participants got into a fight with a passerby, but no arrests were made and an investigation is ongoing, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Florida Highway Patrol said in a statement that they and sheriff’s deputies had disbanded the group on the overpass Sunday.
Orange County Sheriff John Mina said any reports of criminal activity by the group would be investigated by his agency. Orange County in central Florida is home to the nation’s biggest theme park resorts. [Disney, “the happiest place on Earth,” now with more Neo-Nazis.]
[T]he demonstrations took place a week after antisemitic flyers were distributed to hundreds of homes in two South Florida cities with large Jewish populations.
“Despite displays of hate in Central Florida this weekend, our collective commitment to building an inclusive, compassionate community for all is stronger than ever,” Dyer said in a tweet.
Local Democratic lawmakers said they were appalled by the demonstrations and urged Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to condemn the demonstrators. The governor’s spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, said in a tweet that Democrats were insinuating that DeSantis’ policies were responsible for the demonstration.
Just like Trump tried to claim his white supremacist supporters who sacked the nation’s Capitol were Antifa and FBI instigators, DeSantis’ spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, tried to claim that this neo-Nazi demonstration was “staged.”
Pushaw at first questioned if the demonstration might be staged. She cited the example of a Republican group opposed to former President Donald Trump that said it was responsible for five people appearing with tiki torches at a Charlottesville, Virginia, stop for the GOP candidate for governor. The torches were reminiscent of those carried by white supremacists who descended on the city in 2017. But she deleted that tweet, saying in a later tweet, “I admit I don’t know who staged the protests in Orlando and waiting for law enforcement to confirm.”
[L]ater in the day, at a news conference in Palm Beach County, DeSantis angrily denounced attempts to tie him and the Republican Party to the Nazi protesters. He said Florida law enforcement agencies were trying to determine who the demonstrators were because they violated state law by hanging banners from overpasses.
“These Democrats who are trying to use this as some type of political issue, to try to smear me as if I had something to do with it. We are not playing their game,” DeSantis said.
Reminder: Ron “DeathSantis” was simply asked to make a public statement condeming Neo-Nazi protests in his “free state” of Florida. Instead, he angrily attacked those asking him to condemn Neo-Nazis, just like Donald Trump got angry and said that “there are fine people on both sides” after the white supremacy protest in Charlottesville.
The Miami Herald blasted Gov. Ron “DeathSantis” for his performance politics outrage. Despite all his manufactured anger, truth is, DeSantis failed to condemn Nazi demonstrators:
Denounce the Nazi demonstrators in Orlando, Gov. Ron DeSantis. It’s that simple.
Say they are abhorrent. Say they are despicable. Say they have no part in this society or this state.
But no. Instead, our governor attacked Democrats during a press conference in Palm Beach County on Monday. Dragged in issues like immigration and inflation and crime. Accused unnamed people — Democrats, of course — of trying to “smear” him. Said he wouldn’t “play their game.”
In other words, politics. Again. Not leadership. Not uniting against something terrible that is cropping up, one more time, in our midst. Not condemning the actions of those who advocated publicly for the extermination of Jews.
Where was his expression of horror that residents of this state had to see a Nazi flag on an overpass in Orlando? Drowning in a sea of his own grievances and fear-mongering, that’s where.
[On] Monday, when DeSantis had his chance to condemn these demonstrators, when he could have simply said Nazis are bad people, when he could have made sure he didn’t give cover to those who hate, well, he didn’t. And all the manufactured anger at Democrats can’t cover up that telling silence.
But wait, there’s more!
February is Black History Month and this has been greeted with a series of bomb threats at Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) across the South.
Gee, I don’t know, do you think maybe this has something to do with race? “White privilege” threatened by college educated African-Americans in a meritocracy?
A growing number of historically Black colleges and universities have had to lock down or postpone classes due to bomb threats on the first day of Black History Month.
At least 14 HBCUs reported bomb threats Tuesday. At least one of them, Howard University, also received a bomb threat Monday.
“We’ve had these challenges before,” Howard University President Wayne Frederick said Tuesday. But “since I’ve been here (as a student) in 1988, it has not been this widespread and also, I think, this overt.”
US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called the threats “disturbing” and said they would not be tolerated.
“My team will continue to work with students, faculty, and alumni to make sure HBCUs continue to be a safe place for students to learn,” Cardona tweeted Tuesday.
CNN then has a short summary for several of the HBCU’s that received bomb threats.
My campus @MorganStateU is the latest HBCU to face a bomb threat. Over half a dozen HBCUs have received these threats in the last few weeks. Not exactly how you want #Blackhistorymonth2022 to begin pic.twitter.com/kh19iKpVN3
— Dr. Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) February 1, 2022
What’s next, a revival of Black Church bombings? Thugs and Terrorists Have Attacked Black Churches for Generations (excerpt):
Most Americans learn in history class about the September 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama, when Ku Klux Klan terrorists killed four girls. “They died between the sacred walls of the church of God,” Reverend Martin Luther King said. “And they were discussing the eternal meaning of love.”
Black churches suffered at the hands of thugs and terrorists throughout the Civil Rights era, as they had for a century before, but such attacks aren’t a matter of remote history. As recently as the 1990s, a wave of fire-bombings hit black churches.
Congressional hearings were held in 1996 at the end of a two-year period when such arson spiked across the southeast. In South Carolina alone, black churches that suffered probable arson attacks included Mt. Zion AME Church in Williamsburg, Macedonia Baptist Church in Manning, Saint Paul Baptist Church in Lexington, Rosemary Baptist Church in Barnwell, St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, Effington Baptist Church, Mount Olivet Baptist Church, and Allen’s Chapel. One member of Congress likened fire-bombings in those years to “the return of a biblical plague.” The most recent burning of a black church to make national headlines occurred in Massachusetts the day Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first black president. A white man was later convicted in what prosecutors called a racially motivated arson attack.
One wonders how many black congregants are remembering bygone fires today.
But white “snowflake” Rep. Michelle Udall does not want this history taught in Arizona schools because some white “snowflake” kid might feel discomfort from learning about the vicious cruelty of white supremacy in American history.
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UPDATE: Buzzfeed News reports, “A Person Claiming To Be Part Of A Neo-Nazi Group Made One Of The Threats To Bomb An HBCU Campus”, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/university-threat-neo-nazi-hbcus
One of the bomb threats against more than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities this week was made by a person who claimed to be part of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, a police chief said Wednesday.
The news comes as the FBI announced it had opened a hate crime and violent extremism investigation into the threats, some of which coincided with the first day of Black History Month. No explosives were found on any of the campuses that were threatened, but canceled classes and lockdowns have left some students on edge.
“From what we can tell, it is a neo-Nazi organization going by the name of Atomwaffen,” Young said.
Over Monday and Tuesday, bomb threats were received around the country by more than a dozen HBCUs: Jackson State University, Coppin State University, Mississippi Valley State University, Morgan State University, Alcorn State University, Tougaloo College, Kentucky State University, Fort Valley State University, Xavier University of Louisiana, University of the District of Columbia, Spelman College, Edward Waters University, Howard University, and Southern University and A&M College.
According to NBC News and the Associated Press, authorities have identified at least five people as persons of interest. An official described them to NBC News as “tech savvy” juveniles, and the threats appeared to be racially motivated. The AP reported that investigators believe the callers used spoofed phone numbers to make the threats.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, the FBI did not confirm that reporting but said its Joint Terrorism Task Forces are leading the investigation.
“Although at this time no explosive devices have been found at any of the locations, the FBI takes all threats with the utmost seriousness and we are committed to thoroughly and aggressively investigating these threats,” the statement said.