Protecting and Serving White Supremacy

“The cops and the Klan go hand in hand.”

Anyone who’s taken part in one of the many counterprotests against the far right, white supremacists and assorted neo-Nazis in the past several years has probably heard this chant.

Often, it’s born of frustration — when anti-racist protesters, usually far outnumbering the bigots, find themselves herded into protest pens, with guns and other weapons of the riot police pointed at them, while the Nazis spout off about their dreams of race wars and fantasies of assaulting those who oppose them.

In Washington, D.C., on August 12, the police accommodations for the three dozen or so Nazis who dared to show up included hundreds of Maryland police, U.S. Park Police and Secret Service agents — all to make sure that “American racists [got] bundled into the capital on a segregated train car and escorted through a racists-only entrance into a park across from the White House,” as the Huffington Post put it.

Is it any wonder that so many anti-racist protesters felt anger and disgust as the hateful bigots got the red-carpet treatment?

Read more: https://socialistworker.org/2018/08/17/protecting-and-serving-white-supremacy