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White nationalist Richard Spencer leads torch-bearing protesters defending Lee statue

White nationalist Richard Spencer leads torch-bearing protesters defending Lee statue

Steve Williams · Saturday, August 19th 2017 at 8:35AM · 1760 views
RICHMOND — Self-proclaimed white nationalist Richard Spencer led a large group of demonstrators carrying torches and chanting “You will not replace us” Saturday in Charlottesville, protesting plans to remove a Confederate monument that has played an outsize role in this year’s race for Virginia governor.

“What brings us together is that we are white, we are a people, we will not be replaced,” Spencer said at an afternoon protest, the first of two rallies he led in the town where he once attended the University of Virginia.

At the second rally, dozens of torch-bearing protesters gathered in a city park Saturday evening and chanted “You will not replace us” and “Russia is our friend,” local television footage shows. Spencer was not shown addressing that gathering, but he tweeted a photo of himself standing in the crowd carrying what appeared to be a bamboo tiki torch.

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robert powell Monday, August 21st 2017 at 11:57AM


“You will not replace us”

----- if that individual that is torch marching is seen by his/her employer THEY will be REPLACED at Work

----- if that individual that is torch marching is seen by Public and is an employer, his Clients will Replace

his business.....

AS I have ALWAYS said; "a selfIdentifying COLORED person is racistlyIGNORANT....."

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