By An Old Friend
Mon, Jan 31, 2022 6:35 p.m.
"Love White Children" Stickers! Surely Guerilla Fighters are Holed-Up in the Hills Nearby ...
Note the blaring fresh evidence, the photo of a scratched-off sticker. Proof positive ... of something.
White Lives Matter movement stickers posted around Collierville, Germantown
Dima Amro, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Stickers promoting white supremacy sentiments were found posted in a Collierville park Sunday.
"Love White Children" sticker is scratched off a water fountain in W.C. Johnson Park in Collierville on Jan. 31, 2022
Reports across social media including facebook showed a sticker with "Love White Children" written on it and a QR code linking to a group-chat for White Lives Matter found on a water fountain near the soccer field at W.C. Johnson Park in Collierville.
Town Administrator James Lewellen said the town was notified Sunday night about the concern, and when he arrived at the park Monday morning the sticker was scratched off.
"It looks like it's a group going around and putting these things everywhere," Lewellen said. "There were a couple of them that showed up there (W.C. Johnson Park) and we took them down. We're watching out to see if they reappear somewhere else."
facebook posts in the Germantown Bulletin Board group also show the stickers in the suburb's neighborhoods with some residents walking around and taking them down.
Germantown officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
The sticker code leads to a Telegram group for White Lives Matter in Tennessee where multiple posts show people placing the stickers around the state including in Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and Collierville.
The white supremacy group on Telegram, an instant messaging site, has nearly 10,800 subscribers with separate groups for certain regions. The group labels the movement as "a world-wide, legal, peaceful and anonymous initiative that furthers the interests of White children through real-life action."
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes White Lives Matter as a neo-Nazi group founded in 2015 as a racist response to the black lives matter movement.
[N.S.: Translation: The splc supports genocidal, black Nazis, while condemning White children to death.]
Lewellen said he has not seen these advertisements in the town before but officials will keep an eye out to see who posted the stickers because the incident is also considered destruction of public property.
[N.S.: The "incident" was protected speech under the First Amendment.]
"This is another one of those racial issues that's not acceptable in Collierville but it's happening everywhere, and there's not a lot we can do to prevent it," Lewellen said.
Collierville Community Justice, a group of activists challenging systemic racism in the town [N.S.: that's not a factual statement, but an editorial endorsement], said Monday afternoon "the lie of White supremacy is wrong," and should be confronted and condemned.
"This latest iteration of White supremacy propaganda in our community highlights the need for our local leaders to take a firm stance against White supremacy activity in Collierville by calling it what it is, publicly denouncing it, and letting white supremacists know that they have no place in Collierville," the group's steering committee said in a statement.
[N.S.: While supporting black Nazis.]
Dima Amro covers the suburbs for The Commercial Appeal and can be reached at Dima.Amro@commercialappeal.com
Some of your rhetoric is juvenile, e.g. 'black Nazis' -- what's the point of nonsense like that?
ReplyDeleteWhy not email the reporter? -- at least then you have a chance to plant some thoughts in her head, giving her something to think about -- who knows, if you are circumspect with the wording, you may make an impression.
Of course the bizarre hysterical reactions to the stickers as well as her story about it are absurd, as is her reliance on the SPLC -- so you have plenty of material for the email.
They shouldn't back down--keep posting signs.
ReplyDelete--GRA
"the incident is also considered destruction of public property."
ReplyDeleteLittering at worst.