Photo: Justin Jones via CNN
Is Black History Month really Black History Month if there’s no counter-demonstration of the sorts? Well, over the weekend, over a dozen people dressed in Nazi symbols marched down near the Capitol building in Nashville on the heels of a Black Lives Matter event.
Metro Nashville Police say they were monitoring “some type of demonstration” that occurred Saturday. That demonstration consisted of a group of men dressed in red and black, waving swastika flags in the air.
Tennessee Rep. Justine Jones took to social media, explaining the group were members of the Blood Tribe—a white supremacist group that exalts Adolf Hitler as their god, per the Anti-Defamation League. In Jones’ video, he said the group were chanting “deporting every Mexican” along with other racist taunts. Jones told CNN he just stepped outside an event honoring a Divine Nine sorority for Black History Month when he caught the scene.
“Immediately the reaction of myself and [the] chief of staff was to try and rush to the parking garage and hide, but then we remembered the way to write wrongs is not to hide but to shine the light of truth upon them. So we recorded them to bear witness to what was going on here,” Jones said.
Gov. Bill Lee responded to the incident in a statement condemning Nazism and antisemitism, adding that Tennessee “remains unwavering in their support for Israel.”
Source: Really?! During Black History Month? Neo-Nazi March in Nashville Sparks Outrage
