According to the Associated Press via the Times-Picayune, a white supremacist group, the Nationalist Movement "want to protest a march held in September supporting the so-called Jena Six, a group of black teenagers charged in the beating of a white schoolmate". The earlier marches were in protest of what was viewed as overly harsh charges and sentences against the the black youths. The fight came about because of the hanging of two nooses in a tree in the schoolyard by white students, who were given only suspensions from school.
The mayor of Jena, Murphy McMillan, wanted the group to post a bond of $10,000 before the march, but a federal judge said that the bond requirement abridged the group's First Amendment rights. The white supremacist group will march on Martin Luther King Day. Like the Reverend Fred Phelps, the white supremacists appear to want to be as provocative as possible, while staying within the law.
The Nationalist Movement, a self-described "pro-majority" group from Learned, Miss., will hold what they call "Jena Justice Day to Empower the Majority" on Jan. 21, the day set aside to celebrate the birthday of the slain American civil rights leader.
I wonder if the group has chapters in Texas and California and, if so, how they self-describe in those states.
Don't worry about 'em Mimi. The worst thing these folks can do for their image is let the Great American Public get a good look at them in daylight. Years back the Klan "organized" a rally at the Statehouse here in Columbia. After weeks of advance publicity a 100 or so of them turned up, the majority women, small kids and babes in arms. The term "skinny white trash", snobbish and racist both, only starts to describe the spectacle they made of themselves. My dogs, who, at a limited level reason, have higher IQs.
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me - how's Cousin Diana doing?
Somehow, I don't think there will be a huge crowd. Did you see their website?
ReplyDeleteTell your dogs that Cousin Diana is doing fine, back to barking to defend us from delivery and repair persons. Of course, once they come in, she is their friend. I suppose she'd be the same with a burglar. If I can ever get my pictures to load into my computer, I have snaps showing what a neat job of surgery the vet did.
It's very sad that there are still such hateful people among us. But, let 'em march. It's within their rights as American citizens, and it will make them look as stupid and small as they really are.
ReplyDeletePJ, it is sad. Does the guy in the picture mean to do a Nazi salute?
ReplyDeleteUgh. Well, I didn't even want to give their site a hit but I did. Yes, I'm sure they know exactly what that picture looks like.
ReplyDeleteA seriously goofy (albeit hate-filled group). I did look at their web site. My favorite quote was:
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Communists object to Down With Communism placard slated for Jena, say that Nationalists stand in the way of their world-takeover. "
Were the Communists planning to start their world takeover in Jena? -- and how amazing that a placard would stop them. All the cold warriors over the years would be mighty put out to find that they never needed to fund Star Wars -- just needed to get a placard.
SusanKay, the commies are coming! The commies are coming back! And the plan is to start with Jena.
ReplyDeleteA good friend of mine moved back from LA to Shreveport in search of love and cheaper housing prices. She and her intended bought a magnificent old home there for some absurd price. But once they moved it, they discovered from the neighbors that the one of the previous owners, actually the one who had done some of the best restoration work, had been the Grand Dragon of the KKK during the 50's and 60's. "Oh yes," the neighbor lady cheerily said, "they used to store the crosses in the carriage house before they went out to burn them." My friends are nominal Episcopalians, but seriously considering some kind of exorcism....
ReplyDeleteJohn, I can't say I blame them. They should go ahead and do it. Was that why it was so cheap?
ReplyDeleteThe blessing of a home in the Book of Occasional Services includes one prayer (optional) that is clearly of exorcismal intent. I would do the full rite of blessing and use lots of holy water (the old fashioned kind with exorcised salt and water--I never use anything less). Home blessings are wonderful occasions.
ReplyDeleteMy house was blessed by a RCC priest who is now serving a life sentence for child abuse. Should I get a new blessing?
ReplyDeleteuh, yes. I would.
ReplyDeletewe know a couple in California who had a bunch of Thai Buddhist monks around to bless their house. Turns out that the central event of a house blessing by Thai monks is the part where you feed them all a big expensive meal and then send them back to the abbey with more expensive food (cooked by special virgins chanting in the kitchen or something) to feed all of the monks who couldn't come. Oh, and since they can't eat after noon (really) and have lots of chanting to do all day, the event happened at around 6am, which meant that the caterer charged extra.
Dennis, I'm sure I'd have to pay their airfare down here,too. I might just take my chances.
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