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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:57 PM Aug 2017

Texas A&M cancels "White Lives Matter" protest scheduled for 9/11

Guess the pressure got to them, its working folks......keep it up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-lives-matter-protest-texas-am-canceled_us_5991d904e4b090964298dcfd?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

Texas A&M University canceled a “White Lives Matter” protest that had been scheduled for Sept. 11 despite initially defending the event, according to a press release Monday. The rally, organized in response to this weekend’s violent “Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, would have featured white nationalist speaker Richard Spencer.


A&M administrators conferred with “law enforcement, system leaders and regents” before ultimately canceling the rally, university spokeswoman Amy Smith told the Houston Chronicle.

Smith said A&M was able to cancel the event because its organizer, Preston Wiginton, “directly linked his plans for A&M to the weekend violence in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia with a press release that read, ‘Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M.’”

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Texas A&M cancels "White Lives Matter" protest scheduled for 9/11 (Original Post) sunonmars Aug 2017 OP
Do non white lives matter? Bladewire Aug 2017 #1
They were going to have it on 9/11? Lordy BootinUp Aug 2017 #2
The title of the press release "Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M" just shows how embolden ciaobaby Aug 2017 #3
Good Lotusflower70 Aug 2017 #4
One of the most conservative campuses in the US central scrutinizer Aug 2017 #5
How would this be "in response"? RhodeIslandOne Aug 2017 #6
Yeah Gothmog Aug 2017 #7
 

Bladewire

(381 posts)
1. Do non white lives matter?
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:59 PM
Aug 2017

Just curious

I'm white

American patriots come in many shades and died for our Stars and stripes with the same red blood.

 

ciaobaby

(1,000 posts)
3. The title of the press release "Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M" just shows how embolden
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:11 PM
Aug 2017

they have become with their guy in the white house. In the end I think seeing them step out from the shadows and expose themselves for who they really are will be beneficial. Republicans will have to face the facts of who is running their party and America will be forced to look at and and acknowledge the truth about the hatred and racism that still exists in America.

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