White Supremacist rally in Charlottesville

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/...&gwh=870AD708D8A4F4040F50C1D311A7CA89&gwt=pay

Christopher Cantwell, White Nationalist in Vice Video, Braces for Charges

By at least one measure, Christopher Cantwell, a self-described white nationalist, said he believed his decision to be interviewed in a Vice News report had “worked out magnificently.”

The documentary has been viewed more than 44 million times since it aired on Aug. 14.

In it, Mr. Cantwell is shown calling for an “ethno-state” and saying that the death of a 32-year-old woman who was killed protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12 was justified, adding, “I think that a lot more people are going to die before we’re done here.”

A week after the broadcast, Mr. Cantwell has emerged as a high-profile activist for the so-called alt-right. In that sense, he said in interviews, it’s a victory because he drew the scorn of liberals.

“The first thing you’ve got to understand is my job is to shock people,” Mr. Cantwell, 36, said in the first of two telephone interviews on Friday and Saturday.

But in many other ways, his actions and the public exposure have upended his life.

Since the rally in Charlottesville, the prospect of an arrest has loomed over Mr. Cantwell, who posted a video on Aug. 12 in which he choked back tears.

He gave a phone number that he said the authorities could use to contact him, and he said that since then, his voice mail has been “recording death threats faster than I can listen to them.”

Officials at the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office of Albemarle County in Charlottesville said on Monday morning that four warrants had been issued for Mr. Cantwell’s arrest. The office referred questions about the nature of the charges to the University of Virginia Police Department. A spokesman at the department did not respond to requests for comment on Friday, Saturday and Monday.

The Boston Globe reported on Thursday that the warrants were related to the “illegal use of gases, and injury by caustic agent or explosive.”

In interviews on Friday and Saturday, Mr. Cantwell said that if he were to face such charges, he believed they are connected to an episode he said was photographed by a journalist.

The image, he said, shows “that I’m pepper-spraying a guy straight in his face as he’s coming toward me.”

“I thought that spraying that guy was the least damaging thing I could do,” he added. “In my left hand I had a flashlight. My other option, other than the pepper spray, was to break this guy’s teeth. O.K.? And I didn’t want to do that. I just wanted him to not hurt me.”

In an interview on Monday, Emily Gorcenski, an activist for transgender rights, said she filed a report against Mr. Cantwell with the University of Virginia police on Aug. 12. The night before, she said, she was standing to Mr. Cantwell’s right when he used some kind of pepper spray on a group of counter-protesters that demonstrated against the torch-lit march Mr. Cantwell and other white supremacists held on campus.

“He sprayed basically the whole group,” Ms. Gorcenski said. “The whole thing was scary. I was targeted by people wearing swastika pins. It was terrifying.”

Ms. Gorcenski said she recognized Mr. Cantwell from his YouTube videos, and she had seen him earlier organizing his group at a Walmart parking lot. She said she believed her complaint was the cause of one, but not all, the charges against him.

Mr. Cantwell, who lives in New Hampshire and hosts a podcast, said he had read The Globe report but had not spoken with the authorities in Virginia. He said he would turn himself in immediately if necessary.

“I don’t think I did anything wrong, and I’m looking forward to my day in court,” he said on Friday.

On Monday, he said in an email he was contacting his lawyer.

The violence erupted in Charlottesville ostensibly over the planned removal of a statue of a Confederate general there.

The Charlottesville police arrested at least two people in connection with the rally and unrest. The Virginia State Police said it made at least three arrests, and the University of Virginia said its Police Department arrested at least one person at an Aug. 11 demonstration.

Mr. Cantwell rose to prominence days later when Vice News aired its report recapping what happened. The reporter, Elle Reeve, was embedded with white nationalists, and the documentary allowed viewers to see things from their perspectives.

Mr. Cantwell was featured prominently in the report.

In it, he cites Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice — whose shooting deaths spurred a nationwide debate about criminal justice and racial profiling — as examples of a black person “behaving like a savage.” He also reprimanded President Trump for “giving his daughter to a Jew.”

After the rally, he dumped at least four firearms and a knife onto a bed, the video shows. Several times throughout the Vice report, he made it clear that he and other members of the alt-right were capable of violence, saying during the rally that they would kill their opponents “if we have to.”

Yet in the video he recorded of himself the day of the rally, Mr. Cantwell said he was “terrified” and “afraid” the police would kill him.

On Saturday, he assailed people he said had inaccurately suggested he was scared about going to prison.

“The problem is that my country has descended to a point where your political opinions get you charged with felonies, and that’s what I’m upset about,” he said. “I get a little emotional about the fact that all this is going on, and now people want to throw me in prison because I want to save my race and nation.”

On Sunday, Mr. Cantwell posted a blog post with what he said might be the final episode of his audio show.

“Tomorrow I’m more than likely going to find myself in a cage facing decades in prison,” he wrote. “It is entirely possible that this will be the last time you hear from me.”

 

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https://twitter.com/reetae27/status/899018562647375872

https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/342312/allen-armentrout-confederate-college/

Douche kicked out of college after waving Confederate flag in Charlottesville

In the aftermath of the Charlottesville rally, a lot of people are learning the hard way why their predecessors wore hoods. The latest casualty of being spotted at a white supremacist rally is Allen Armentrout, aka the kid in the Confederate soldier regalia getting flipped off. He has since been booted out of Pensacola Christian College prior to starting his senior year.

Armentrout told Pensacola News Journal that he traveled to Charlottesville from Florida, donned a Confederate uniform, and flew a stars-n-bars flag on his person to prove that white supremacists erroneously “latched on” Confederate history.

“They need to know what they fought for wasn’t slavery or oppression,” Armentrout said in the AP video depicting him getting escorted away from counter-protesters giving him the double-bird and chanting “terrorist go home!” The people enslaved during that time would probably beg to differ.

Way to pick the dumbest hill to die on, champ.

“I have been released from my school and will be unable to return to college to finish my senior year,” Armentrout told WXII. “I’m processing this and making adjustments to my life to compensate for this scrutiny.”

From WXII:

Armentrout says he made the trip to Charlottesville to honor [Robert E.] Lee, calling him “the greatest American that ever lived.” Armentrout stood at the statue with a semi-automatic handgun, an AR-15 rifle and a Confederate flag. His purpose was to honor and defend a statue that he loved, according to Armentrout.

Slugger, I got news for you. Lee himself would want that statue to come down.

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/penn-state-university-richard-spencer-not-welcome

Penn State: White Nationalist Spencer ‘Not Welcome To Speak’ On Campus

The president of Pennsylvania State University on Tuesday announced that prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer “is not welcome to speak” on the college’s campus.

University president Eric J. Barron said in a statement that the college “evaluated a request” for Spencer to speak on campus in the fall and “determined that Mr. Spencer is not welcome.”

“The First Amendment does not require our University to risk imminent violence,” Barron said. “After critical assessment by campus police, in consultation with state and federal law enforcement officials, we have determined that Mr. Spencer is not welcome on our campus, as this event at this time presents a major security risk to students, faculty, staff and visitors to campus.”

Barron said he disagrees “profoundly with the content that has been presented publicly about this speaker’s views which are abhorrent and contradictory to our University’s values.”

“There is no place for hatred, bigotry or racism in our society and on our campuses,” he said. “It is the likelihood of disruption and violence, not the content, however odious, that drives our decision.”

Penn State director of news and media relations Lisa Powers told the Daily Collegian, the university’s student-operated newspaper, that the school received the request from “an individual who claims to be a student at Georgia State University, and an acolyte to Richard Spencer.”

“We’ve received no request from Spencer himself or any organization associated with him,” Powers told the Daily Collegian.

In response to violence that erupted on August 12 at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Texas A&M University canceled a September rally where Spencer was scheduled to speak.

The colleges are among a wide swath of corporations, universities and localities pushing back against white nationalist groups in the aftermath of the rally.

 

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http://www.dispatch.com/news/201708...ederate-soldier-statue-at-camp-chase-cemetery

Vandals topple Confederate soldier statue at Camp Chase cemetery, take head

Columbus police are investigating the vandalism of a Confederate soldier statue at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery on the Hilltop.

Police said the vandalism occurred sometime between midnight and 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

It appears the vandals climbed on top of the arched monument at the cemetery and toppled the statue to the ground, officials said. As a result of the fall, the statue was decapitated.

The vandals took the head but left the hat, police said.

Officers noticed the broken monument around 7:20 a.m. when doing a check of the cemetery.

Vandalism cases are difficult to prosecute because they are challenging to prove.

"Our best hope is whoever took the head puts photos of it on social media," said Columbus Police Lt. Clifton Dean.

Police have been routinely keeping an eye in the cemetery as tensions continue to rise about whether Confederate statues have a place in today's world since the violence at a white-supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Douglas Ledbetter, director of Dayton/Marion National Cemeteries, which is part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Association, said Camp Chase is one four cemeteries he oversees.

"We're being vigilant. We have a lot of historical sites," said Ledbetter, adding that they have been in touch with Columbus police.

Camp Chase was Ohio's largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camp for thousands of captured Confederate troops during the Civil War.

Ledbetter reviewed the damage Tuesday morning. The remaining pieces of the statue will be secured for safekeeping, he said. It's unclear if the statue will be repaired or replaced.

"I don't know what we're going to do at this point," he said.

The bronze statue could be seen Tuesday morning standing near the arch facing north with the hat sitting on a headless body. The statue is holding a rifle with both hands clasping the barrel. None of the grave markers were damaged as a result of the statue toppling over, Ledbetter said.

As of last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs told the Dispatch there were no plans to take down Confederate monuments at gravesites.

“Monuments to Confederate soldiers stand only in cemeteries where Confederate soldiers are buried or memorialized, and we have no plans to disturb those gravesites or monuments,” said Curt Cashour, press secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs, in a statement.

The memorial arch the statue stood on top for more than a hundred years is built of granite blocks. The arch was erected at the cemetery in 1902, Dispatch archives show. The keystone of the arch is inscribed "AMERICANS."

"One of the things you'll notice on the archway, what does it say? 'Americans.' Not Confederates," said Harry Pearson, 70, who lives a few blocks away from the cemetery. He was one of a few people who stopped by upset by the vandalism. "We're all Americans."

There are more than 2,000 graves of soldiers — mostly Confederate ones — at Camp Chase marked with marble headstones who died while imprisoned.

Pearson accused the vandals of trying to erase history.

"I'm really surprised they didn't vandalize the tombstones," he said. "Thank God they didn't touch them."

In the meantime, officials are hopeful someone could come forward with information.

"We're tasked with taking care of our national cemeteries and national shrines," Ledbetter said. " If you know anything or see anything, contact the authorities."

 

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Coonin once again is at an all-time high...

 

[Kwan Dai]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S2TZOdXAtQ

Coonin once again is at an all-time high...

So, no mention of:

The Prison industrial complex

Red Lining

Sentencing disparities

Education disparities

Pay Gap between Blacks and Whites

Predatory lending

Racial profiling

When one of these uneducated ass hats opens their mouths to immediately spew off murders rates we should be swift to cut them off. They are unfit to discuss anything concerning race and it's affects on those who it's designed to target.

 

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https://twitter.com/viaSimonRomero/status/900214548883546112

It's hard out there in those Arizona streets for coon Trump supporters...

 

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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article168766842.html

Pittenger asks: Why aren’t liberals condemning Black Lives Matter and others?

Rep. Robert Pittenger, a Republican congressman from North Carolina, said Tuesday President Donald Trump is getting unfairly blasted for his comments about the deadly Charlottesville rally, arguing that liberals haven’t condemned Black Lives Matter and other groups for their “hate and violence.”

“It’s a bit disingenuous to me that so much pressure and criticism has been put on President Trump for what he didn’t say, and yet when these things happen on the other side, silence,” Pittenger, considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable incumbents, said in an interview on a Fayetteville radio station.

“You look at the actions of Black Lives Matter and people like Al Sharpton who have not condemned it – we never heard President Obama condemn the violence of Black Lives Matter,” Pittenger said on WFNC radio’s “Good Morning Fayetteville.”

Pittenger later clarified his remarks. “While I have condemned white supremacists, I made no direct connection between Black Lives Matter and KKK,” he told McClatchy. “However, there is the reality of hate and violence with Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and why should they be given a pass?”

Democrats and Republicans have criticized Trump for appearing to find moral equivocation between the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who organized and participated in the August 12 Charlottesville rally and the counter protesters who opposed them.

The event became an ugly skirmish that left one woman dead. Two Virginia state troopers were also killed when their helicopter crashed while on patrol during the rallies.

Trump, responding to the tragedy, said “I think there’s blame on both sides” and added that protesters in Charlottesville included some “very fine” people.

Pittnger asked, “Why is it okay to call out white supremacists but this ‘antifa’ group – their whole scope and mission is violence.” He was referring to the group whose mission is combating fascism and white nationalism.

The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag gained prominence on social media after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was charged in the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Florida.

The first Black Lives Matter protests came after the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, three years ago by a white Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Black Lives Matter activists have protested at hundreds of events across the nation in the years since, often after the death of a black man or boy in police-involved shootings.

Though Black Lives Matter leaders say the movement is not violent and not anti-police, many — particularly on the right — have accused the group of fostering violence. Earlier this month, state Sen. Dan Bishop, a Republican from Mecklenburg County, said Black Lives Matter and those waiving Nazi flags were "both violent, racist movements."

Pittenger added Tuesday: “I don’t think you can give a pass to people who support the antifa movement or Black Lives Matter movement when they are just as engaged in hate.”

When asked whether he can compare Black Lives Matter to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, Pittenger said, “Hate in all forms is wrong…are we justified to give a pass to ‘antifa,’ who promote violence, and instigators.”

He noted the September 2016 protests in Charlotte following the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man. The officer was also black.

“We found out, clearly, that was promoted by instigators who came in,” Pittenger said. “You never heard somebody calling that out. Where was Al Sharpton to calling that out? Would have this been the expression of Martin Luther King? No. Where’s the spirit of Martin Luther King in all of this?”

Pittenger also recalled his controversial comment in a BBC interview in September 2016 that some of the black protesters in Charlotte “hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” He later apologized for the remarks.

Pittenger in the radio interview Tuesday said he was merely repeating what a black protester was conveying on television in 2016.

“There was an African-American young man, you could see the lack of hope in his eyes, he had nowhere to go in his life, and he said on TV ‘I hate all white people,’” Pittenger recalled. “What he was saying was ‘I have nothing.’ I repeated what he said and then I got into trouble for saying it because they somehow blamed me that I said it…it was reporting what someone else said.”

Pittenger won a tight three-way race for the Republican nomination in 2016, defeating Mark Harris by 134 votes. Pittenger won the general election with more than 58 percent of the vote easily defeating Democrat Christian Cano.

Harris has announced he is running again in 2018. Cano is one of three Democrats competing for the seat, including Maria Collins Warren and Dan McCready, who has raised more than $459,000 already.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted Pittenger’s district as one it hopes to flip in 2018. The district includes Fayetteville and Lumberton in the east and runs along the South Carolina border to include parts of Scotland, Richmond, Anson, Union and Mecklenburg counties.

DCCC officials jumped on Pittenger’s comments Tuesday night.

"For any Member of Congress to defend the actions of the Ku Klux Klan, particularly after their actions and the actions of other white supremacists cost a young woman in Charlottesville her life, is unacceptable,” said Cole Leiter, a DCCC spokesman. “But for Congressman Pittenger, it is simply the most recent episode in his history of racist remarks followed by half-hearted apologies.

“There is no "both sides" when it comes to defending white supremacists and it's past time Congressman Pittenger learn that from the North Carolina families he claims to represent."

 

[Mister B.]

Y'all gotta STOP giving ditzy, five-head broads promo. This chick ain't saying shit.

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/un-condemns-us-high-level-politicians-poor-cville-response

UN Condemns ‘High Level Politicians’ For Poor Charlottesville Response

A United Nations committee is calling out the U.S. government, “high level politicians” and public officials and asking them to take a stronger stance against racism in America.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued a statement Wednesday asking the U.S. to “unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the country,” referencing the violence that broke out at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month.

As part of the UN’s “early warning and early action” procedure, the committee issued a statement to denounce “racist white supremacist” ideas and ideologies.

“We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,” CERD Chairperson Anastasia Crickley said in a statement.

The committee asked the U.S. to investigate what happened when a man reportedly affiliated with the white nationalists allegedly drove his car through a crowd of counter-protesters at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, killing a woman named Heather Hayer.

It also asked the U.S. government to pinpoint what is fueling the “proliferation of such racist manifestations.”

“We call on the U.S. government to investigate thoroughly the phenomenon of racial discrimination targeting, in particular, people of African descent, ethnic or ethno-religious minorities, and migrants,” Crickley said.

 

[313 wayz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S2TZOdXAtQ

Coonin once again is at an all-time high...

Some people will say and do anything for ATTENTION...whether it's positive or negative.....just seeking the attention....SMH

 

[D. Morgan]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/un-condemns-us-high-level-politicians-poor-cville-response

UN Condemns ‘High Level Politicians’ For Poor Charlottesville Response

A United Nations committee is calling out the U.S. government, “high level politicians” and public officials and asking them to take a stronger stance against racism in America.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued a statement Wednesday asking the U.S. to “unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the country,” referencing the violence that broke out at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month.

As part of the UN’s “early warning and early action” procedure, the committee issued a statement to denounce “racist white supremacist” ideas and ideologies.

“We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,” CERD Chairperson Anastasia Crickley said in a statement.

The committee asked the U.S. to investigate what happened when a man reportedly affiliated with the white nationalists allegedly drove his car through a crowd of counter-protesters at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, killing a woman named Heather Hayer.

It also asked the U.S. government to pinpoint what is fueling the “proliferation of such racist manifestations.”

“We call on the U.S. government to investigate thoroughly the phenomenon of racial discrimination targeting, in particular, people of African descent, ethnic or ethno-religious minorities, and migrants,” Crickley said.

 

[aneed123]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX9KQJJDb7u/

Shout out Oakland

That was glorious lol

 

[Mister B.]

Some people will say and do anything for ATTENTION...whether it's positive or negative.....just seeking the attention....SMH

Y'all gotta STOP giving ditzy, five-head broads promo. This chick ain't saying shit.

Quoted...again, for emphasis.

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

What needs to be investigated from a white supremacist running over a woman? What are they having a hard time understanding?

Either us blacks are equals in making this country great again or white supremacists have to be in trouble by they damn selves.

Nobody is listening to the opponents pov they are left to stay in the same cycle of answering they own questions

Lets hope they dont dig away from the fact a white supremacist running over the woman

 

[Undefeatable]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article168766842.html

Pittenger asks: Why aren’t liberals condemning Black Lives Matter and others?

Rep. Robert Pittenger, a Republican congressman from North Carolina, said Tuesday President Donald Trump is getting unfairly blasted for his comments about the deadly Charlottesville rally, arguing that liberals haven’t condemned Black Lives Matter and other groups for their “hate and violence.”

“It’s a bit disingenuous to me that so much pressure and criticism has been put on President Trump for what he didn’t say, and yet when these things happen on the other side, silence,” Pittenger, considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable incumbents, said in an interview on a Fayetteville radio station.

“You look at the actions of Black Lives Matter and people like Al Sharpton who have not condemned it – we never heard President Obama condemn the violence of Black Lives Matter,” Pittenger said on WFNC radio’s “Good Morning Fayetteville.”

Pittenger later clarified his remarks. “While I have condemned white supremacists, I made no direct connection between Black Lives Matter and KKK,” he told McClatchy. “However, there is the reality of hate and violence with Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and why should they be given a pass?”

Democrats and Republicans have criticized Trump for appearing to find moral equivocation between the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who organized and participated in the August 12 Charlottesville rally and the counter protesters who opposed them.

The event became an ugly skirmish that left one woman dead. Two Virginia state troopers were also killed when their helicopter crashed while on patrol during the rallies.

Trump, responding to the tragedy, said “I think there’s blame on both sides” and added that protesters in Charlottesville included some “very fine” people.

Pittnger asked, “Why is it okay to call out white supremacists but this ‘antifa’ group – their whole scope and mission is violence.” He was referring to the group whose mission is combating fascism and white nationalism.

The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag gained prominence on social media after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was charged in the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Florida.

The first Black Lives Matter protests came after the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, three years ago by a white Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Black Lives Matter activists have protested at hundreds of events across the nation in the years since, often after the death of a black man or boy in police-involved shootings.

Though Black Lives Matter leaders say the movement is not violent and not anti-police, many — particularly on the right — have accused the group of fostering violence. Earlier this month, state Sen. Dan Bishop, a Republican from Mecklenburg County, said Black Lives Matter and those waiving Nazi flags were "both violent, racist movements."

Pittenger added Tuesday: “I don’t think you can give a pass to people who support the antifa movement or Black Lives Matter movement when they are just as engaged in hate.”

When asked whether he can compare Black Lives Matter to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, Pittenger said, “Hate in all forms is wrong…are we justified to give a pass to ‘antifa,’ who promote violence, and instigators.”

He noted the September 2016 protests in Charlotte following the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man. The officer was also black.

“We found out, clearly, that was promoted by instigators who came in,” Pittenger said. “You never heard somebody calling that out. Where was Al Sharpton to calling that out? Would have this been the expression of Martin Luther King? No. Where’s the spirit of Martin Luther King in all of this?”

Pittenger also recalled his controversial comment in a BBC interview in September 2016 that some of the black protesters in Charlotte “hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” He later apologized for the remarks.

Pittenger in the radio interview Tuesday said he was merely repeating what a black protester was conveying on television in 2016.

“There was an African-American young man, you could see the lack of hope in his eyes, he had nowhere to go in his life, and he said on TV ‘I hate all white people,’” Pittenger recalled. “What he was saying was ‘I have nothing.’ I repeated what he said and then I got into trouble for saying it because they somehow blamed me that I said it…it was reporting what someone else said.”

Pittenger won a tight three-way race for the Republican nomination in 2016, defeating Mark Harris by 134 votes. Pittenger won the general election with more than 58 percent of the vote easily defeating Democrat Christian Cano.

Harris has announced he is running again in 2018. Cano is one of three Democrats competing for the seat, including Maria Collins Warren and Dan McCready, who has raised more than $459,000 already.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted Pittenger’s district as one it hopes to flip in 2018. The district includes Fayetteville and Lumberton in the east and runs along the South Carolina border to include parts of Scotland, Richmond, Anson, Union and Mecklenburg counties.

DCCC officials jumped on Pittenger’s comments Tuesday night.

"For any Member of Congress to defend the actions of the Ku Klux Klan, particularly after their actions and the actions of other white supremacists cost a young woman in Charlottesville her life, is unacceptable,” said Cole Leiter, a DCCC spokesman. “But for Congressman Pittenger, it is simply the most recent episode in his history of racist remarks followed by half-hearted apologies.

“There is no "both sides" when it comes to defending white supremacists and it's past time Congressman Pittenger learn that from the North Carolina families he claims to represent."

The idea that Black Lives Matter is a hate group is just completely ridiculous.

But the idea that BLM is a violent group is not completely ridiculous. I feel vindicated when I said that the violence, especially the shooting of cops, was going to hurt the cause. Cause it has. It gave our enemies something to point back the fingers at us.

I still strongly support BLM, but we gotta be smarter with this shit.

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article168766842.html

Pittenger asks: Why aren’t liberals condemning Black Lives Matter and others?

Rep. Robert Pittenger, a Republican congressman from North Carolina, said Tuesday President Donald Trump is getting unfairly blasted for his comments about the deadly Charlottesville rally, arguing that liberals haven’t condemned Black Lives Matter and other groups for their “hate and violence.”

“It’s a bit disingenuous to me that so much pressure and criticism has been put on President Trump for what he didn’t say, and yet when these things happen on the other side, silence,” Pittenger, considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable incumbents, said in an interview on a Fayetteville radio station.

“You look at the actions of Black Lives Matter and people like Al Sharpton who have not condemned it – we never heard President Obama condemn the violence of Black Lives Matter,” Pittenger said on WFNC radio’s “Good Morning Fayetteville.”

Pittenger later clarified his remarks. “While I have condemned white supremacists, I made no direct connection between Black Lives Matter and KKK,” he told McClatchy. “However, there is the reality of hate and violence with Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and why should they be given a pass?”

Democrats and Republicans have criticized Trump for appearing to find moral equivocation between the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who organized and participated in the August 12 Charlottesville rally and the counter protesters who opposed them.

The event became an ugly skirmish that left one woman dead. Two Virginia state troopers were also killed when their helicopter crashed while on patrol during the rallies.

Trump, responding to the tragedy, said “I think there’s blame on both sides” and added that protesters in Charlottesville included some “very fine” people.

Pittnger asked, “Why is it okay to call out white supremacists but this ‘antifa’ group – their whole scope and mission is violence.” He was referring to the group whose mission is combating fascism and white nationalism.

The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag gained prominence on social media after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was charged in the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Florida.

The first Black Lives Matter protests came after the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, three years ago by a white Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Black Lives Matter activists have protested at hundreds of events across the nation in the years since, often after the death of a black man or boy in police-involved shootings.

Though Black Lives Matter leaders say the movement is not violent and not anti-police, many — particularly on the right — have accused the group of fostering violence. Earlier this month, state Sen. Dan Bishop, a Republican from Mecklenburg County, said Black Lives Matter and those waiving Nazi flags were "both violent, racist movements."

Pittenger added Tuesday: “I don’t think you can give a pass to people who support the antifa movement or Black Lives Matter movement when they are just as engaged in hate.”

When asked whether he can compare Black Lives Matter to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, Pittenger said, “Hate in all forms is wrong…are we justified to give a pass to ‘antifa,’ who promote violence, and instigators.”

He noted the September 2016 protests in Charlotte following the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man. The officer was also black.

“We found out, clearly, that was promoted by instigators who came in,” Pittenger said. “You never heard somebody calling that out. Where was Al Sharpton to calling that out? Would have this been the expression of Martin Luther King? No. Where’s the spirit of Martin Luther King in all of this?”

Pittenger also recalled his controversial comment in a BBC interview in September 2016 that some of the black protesters in Charlotte “hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” He later apologized for the remarks.

Pittenger in the radio interview Tuesday said he was merely repeating what a black protester was conveying on television in 2016.

“There was an African-American young man, you could see the lack of hope in his eyes, he had nowhere to go in his life, and he said on TV ‘I hate all white people,’” Pittenger recalled. “What he was saying was ‘I have nothing.’ I repeated what he said and then I got into trouble for saying it because they somehow blamed me that I said it…it was reporting what someone else said.”

Pittenger won a tight three-way race for the Republican nomination in 2016, defeating Mark Harris by 134 votes. Pittenger won the general election with more than 58 percent of the vote easily defeating Democrat Christian Cano.

Harris has announced he is running again in 2018. Cano is one of three Democrats competing for the seat, including Maria Collins Warren and Dan McCready, who has raised more than $459,000 already.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted Pittenger’s district as one it hopes to flip in 2018. The district includes Fayetteville and Lumberton in the east and runs along the South Carolina border to include parts of Scotland, Richmond, Anson, Union and Mecklenburg counties.

DCCC officials jumped on Pittenger’s comments Tuesday night.

"For any Member of Congress to defend the actions of the Ku Klux Klan, particularly after their actions and the actions of other white supremacists cost a young woman in Charlottesville her life, is unacceptable,” said Cole Leiter, a DCCC spokesman. “But for Congressman Pittenger, it is simply the most recent episode in his history of racist remarks followed by half-hearted apologies.

“There is no "both sides" when it comes to defending white supremacists and it's past time Congressman Pittenger learn that from the North Carolina families he claims to represent."

The idea that Black Lives Matter is a hate group is just completely ridiculous.

But the idea that BLM is a violent group is not completely ridiculous. I feel vindicated when I said that the violence, especially the shooting of cops, was going to hurt the cause. Cause it has. It gave our enemies something to point black the fingers at us.

I still strongly support BLM, but we gotta be smarter with this shit.

But if whites keep refusing to respect lives of black men black women and black children turning the other cheek will never matter

 

[Undefeatable]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article168766842.html

Pittenger asks: Why aren’t liberals condemning Black Lives Matter and others?

Rep. Robert Pittenger, a Republican congressman from North Carolina, said Tuesday President Donald Trump is getting unfairly blasted for his comments about the deadly Charlottesville rally, arguing that liberals haven’t condemned Black Lives Matter and other groups for their “hate and violence.”

“It’s a bit disingenuous to me that so much pressure and criticism has been put on President Trump for what he didn’t say, and yet when these things happen on the other side, silence,” Pittenger, considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable incumbents, said in an interview on a Fayetteville radio station.

“You look at the actions of Black Lives Matter and people like Al Sharpton who have not condemned it – we never heard President Obama condemn the violence of Black Lives Matter,” Pittenger said on WFNC radio’s “Good Morning Fayetteville.”

Pittenger later clarified his remarks. “While I have condemned white supremacists, I made no direct connection between Black Lives Matter and KKK,” he told McClatchy. “However, there is the reality of hate and violence with Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and why should they be given a pass?”

Democrats and Republicans have criticized Trump for appearing to find moral equivocation between the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who organized and participated in the August 12 Charlottesville rally and the counter protesters who opposed them.

The event became an ugly skirmish that left one woman dead. Two Virginia state troopers were also killed when their helicopter crashed while on patrol during the rallies.

Trump, responding to the tragedy, said “I think there’s blame on both sides” and added that protesters in Charlottesville included some “very fine” people.

Pittnger asked, “Why is it okay to call out white supremacists but this ‘antifa’ group – their whole scope and mission is violence.” He was referring to the group whose mission is combating fascism and white nationalism.

The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag gained prominence on social media after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was charged in the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Florida.

The first Black Lives Matter protests came after the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, three years ago by a white Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Black Lives Matter activists have protested at hundreds of events across the nation in the years since, often after the death of a black man or boy in police-involved shootings.

Though Black Lives Matter leaders say the movement is not violent and not anti-police, many — particularly on the right — have accused the group of fostering violence. Earlier this month, state Sen. Dan Bishop, a Republican from Mecklenburg County, said Black Lives Matter and those waiving Nazi flags were "both violent, racist movements."

Pittenger added Tuesday: “I don’t think you can give a pass to people who support the antifa movement or Black Lives Matter movement when they are just as engaged in hate.”

When asked whether he can compare Black Lives Matter to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, Pittenger said, “Hate in all forms is wrong…are we justified to give a pass to ‘antifa,’ who promote violence, and instigators.”

He noted the September 2016 protests in Charlotte following the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man. The officer was also black.

“We found out, clearly, that was promoted by instigators who came in,” Pittenger said. “You never heard somebody calling that out. Where was Al Sharpton to calling that out? Would have this been the expression of Martin Luther King? No. Where’s the spirit of Martin Luther King in all of this?”

Pittenger also recalled his controversial comment in a BBC interview in September 2016 that some of the black protesters in Charlotte “hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” He later apologized for the remarks.

Pittenger in the radio interview Tuesday said he was merely repeating what a black protester was conveying on television in 2016.

“There was an African-American young man, you could see the lack of hope in his eyes, he had nowhere to go in his life, and he said on TV ‘I hate all white people,’” Pittenger recalled. “What he was saying was ‘I have nothing.’ I repeated what he said and then I got into trouble for saying it because they somehow blamed me that I said it…it was reporting what someone else said.”

Pittenger won a tight three-way race for the Republican nomination in 2016, defeating Mark Harris by 134 votes. Pittenger won the general election with more than 58 percent of the vote easily defeating Democrat Christian Cano.

Harris has announced he is running again in 2018. Cano is one of three Democrats competing for the seat, including Maria Collins Warren and Dan McCready, who has raised more than $459,000 already.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted Pittenger’s district as one it hopes to flip in 2018. The district includes Fayetteville and Lumberton in the east and runs along the South Carolina border to include parts of Scotland, Richmond, Anson, Union and Mecklenburg counties.

DCCC officials jumped on Pittenger’s comments Tuesday night.

"For any Member of Congress to defend the actions of the Ku Klux Klan, particularly after their actions and the actions of other white supremacists cost a young woman in Charlottesville her life, is unacceptable,” said Cole Leiter, a DCCC spokesman. “But for Congressman Pittenger, it is simply the most recent episode in his history of racist remarks followed by half-hearted apologies.

“There is no "both sides" when it comes to defending white supremacists and it's past time Congressman Pittenger learn that from the North Carolina families he claims to represent."

The idea that Black Lives Matter is a hate group is just completely ridiculous.

But the idea that BLM is a violent group is not completely ridiculous. I feel vindicated when I said that the violence, especially the shooting of cops, was going to hurt the cause. Cause it has. It gave our enemies something to point back the fingers at us.

I still strongly support BLM, but we gotta be smarter with this shit.

But if whites keep refusing to respect lives of black men black women and black children turning the other cheek will never matter

I'm not so sure that is true. Some said that black people won't ever get civil rights, but they were eventually proven wrong.

 

[stringer bell]

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...niversity-barricades-Confederate-11950147.php

A North Carolina county commissioner referred to slaves as "workers" during a discussion on removing a Confederate statue.

The Times-News of Burlington reports Alamance County Commissioner Tim Sutton made the comments during an unscheduled discussion on Monday regarding a Confederate statue in downtown Graham, the county seat. A group appeared before the board of commissioners to ask them to consider keeping the statue.

Sutton is a member of the Sons of the Confederacy. He told the meeting that he is "not going to be a victim of political correctness."

He was talking about his great-grandfather's death when he said, "some guys on the farm, you can call them slaves if you want to, but I would just call them workers."

 

[Rembrandt]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article168766842.html

Pittenger asks: Why aren’t liberals condemning Black Lives Matter and others?

Rep. Robert Pittenger, a Republican congressman from North Carolina, said Tuesday President Donald Trump is getting unfairly blasted for his comments about the deadly Charlottesville rally, arguing that liberals haven’t condemned Black Lives Matter and other groups for their “hate and violence.”

“It’s a bit disingenuous to me that so much pressure and criticism has been put on President Trump for what he didn’t say, and yet when these things happen on the other side, silence,” Pittenger, considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable incumbents, said in an interview on a Fayetteville radio station.

“You look at the actions of Black Lives Matter and people like Al Sharpton who have not condemned it – we never heard President Obama condemn the violence of Black Lives Matter,” Pittenger said on WFNC radio’s “Good Morning Fayetteville.”

Pittenger later clarified his remarks. “While I have condemned white supremacists, I made no direct connection between Black Lives Matter and KKK,” he told McClatchy. “However, there is the reality of hate and violence with Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and why should they be given a pass?”

Democrats and Republicans have criticized Trump for appearing to find moral equivocation between the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who organized and participated in the August 12 Charlottesville rally and the counter protesters who opposed them.

The event became an ugly skirmish that left one woman dead. Two Virginia state troopers were also killed when their helicopter crashed while on patrol during the rallies.

Trump, responding to the tragedy, said “I think there’s blame on both sides” and added that protesters in Charlottesville included some “very fine” people.

Pittnger asked, “Why is it okay to call out white supremacists but this ‘antifa’ group – their whole scope and mission is violence.” He was referring to the group whose mission is combating fascism and white nationalism.

The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag gained prominence on social media after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was charged in the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Florida.

The first Black Lives Matter protests came after the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, three years ago by a white Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Black Lives Matter activists have protested at hundreds of events across the nation in the years since, often after the death of a black man or boy in police-involved shootings.

Though Black Lives Matter leaders say the movement is not violent and not anti-police, many — particularly on the right — have accused the group of fostering violence. Earlier this month, state Sen. Dan Bishop, a Republican from Mecklenburg County, said Black Lives Matter and those waiving Nazi flags were "both violent, racist movements."

Pittenger added Tuesday: “I don’t think you can give a pass to people who support the antifa movement or Black Lives Matter movement when they are just as engaged in hate.”

When asked whether he can compare Black Lives Matter to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, Pittenger said, “Hate in all forms is wrong…are we justified to give a pass to ‘antifa,’ who promote violence, and instigators.”

He noted the September 2016 protests in Charlotte following the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man. The officer was also black.

“We found out, clearly, that was promoted by instigators who came in,” Pittenger said. “You never heard somebody calling that out. Where was Al Sharpton to calling that out? Would have this been the expression of Martin Luther King? No. Where’s the spirit of Martin Luther King in all of this?”

Pittenger also recalled his controversial comment in a BBC interview in September 2016 that some of the black protesters in Charlotte “hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” He later apologized for the remarks.

Pittenger in the radio interview Tuesday said he was merely repeating what a black protester was conveying on television in 2016.

“There was an African-American young man, you could see the lack of hope in his eyes, he had nowhere to go in his life, and he said on TV ‘I hate all white people,’” Pittenger recalled. “What he was saying was ‘I have nothing.’ I repeated what he said and then I got into trouble for saying it because they somehow blamed me that I said it…it was reporting what someone else said.”

Pittenger won a tight three-way race for the Republican nomination in 2016, defeating Mark Harris by 134 votes. Pittenger won the general election with more than 58 percent of the vote easily defeating Democrat Christian Cano.

Harris has announced he is running again in 2018. Cano is one of three Democrats competing for the seat, including Maria Collins Warren and Dan McCready, who has raised more than $459,000 already.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted Pittenger’s district as one it hopes to flip in 2018. The district includes Fayetteville and Lumberton in the east and runs along the South Carolina border to include parts of Scotland, Richmond, Anson, Union and Mecklenburg counties.

DCCC officials jumped on Pittenger’s comments Tuesday night.

"For any Member of Congress to defend the actions of the Ku Klux Klan, particularly after their actions and the actions of other white supremacists cost a young woman in Charlottesville her life, is unacceptable,” said Cole Leiter, a DCCC spokesman. “But for Congressman Pittenger, it is simply the most recent episode in his history of racist remarks followed by half-hearted apologies.

“There is no "both sides" when it comes to defending white supremacists and it's past time Congressman Pittenger learn that from the North Carolina families he claims to represent."

The idea that Black Lives Matter is a hate group is just completely ridiculous.

But the idea that BLM is a violent group is not completely ridiculous. I feel vindicated when I said that the violence, especially the shooting of cops, was going to hurt the cause. Cause it has. It gave our enemies something to point black the fingers at us.

I still strongly support BLM, but we gotta be smarter with this shit.

But if whites keep refusing to respect lives of black men black women and black children turning the other cheek will never matter

Id have to agree with undefeatable here. It's a simple matter of mathematics. So long as they remain the majority and control most of the state departments...a violent response from us will never work in our favor.

The other, non-violent resistance path is a slower one...but it's the most logical.