Confederate flags and Nazi slogans like 'Fourteen words' were paraded around Houston's NAACP's headquarters on Sundays by a group calling themselves 'White Lives Matter'. Many of them were also armed with semi-automatic weaponry and dressed in Donald trump campaign wear and some were wearing 'body armor'.
“We came out here specifically today to protest against the NAACP and their failure in speaking out against the atrocities that organizations like Black Lives Matter and other pro-black organizations have caused the attack and killing of white police officers, the burning down of cities and things of that nature,” organizer Ken Reed told the Houston Chronicle. “If they’re going to be a civil rights organization and defend their people, they also need to hold their people accountable.”
Reed, who was wearing a “Donald Trump ’16” hat and a “White Lives Matter” shirt with white supremacist symbols, said protesters were “not out here to instigate or start any problems,” despite the weaponry and body armor on display.
“Obviously we are exercising our Second Amendment rights but that’s because we have to defend ourselves,” he told the Chronicle. “Their organizations and their people are shooting people based on the color of their skin. We’re not.”
Sadly this was not the first 'protest' by groups calling themselves 'White Lives Matter'. Most of the groups are organized by white supremacists and neo-Nazi's.
Neo-Nazi's organized a small protest in Buffalo in July.
However there is something distinctly disturbing about seeing Confederate flags and neo-Nazi symbolism outside of an NAACP local headquarter in Huston.
One of the 'protesters' outside of the Houston NAACP, who was waving a Confederate flag headquarters said this about his involvement:
"We came here because the NAACP headquarters is here and that’s one of the most racist — supposedly ‘civil rights’ — groups in America.”
This is gross. This is the America that Donald Trump has pushed into the mainstream.
Washington Post: Armed, Confederate flag-waving White Lives Matter protesters rally outside Houston NAACP