COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS CONFERENCE SHUT DOWN IN NASHVILLE

They must have thought Jared Taylor hiding his American Renaissance conference in the woods of Dickson, TN every year meant they can go anywhere in the Nashville area. Wrong!

One People’s Project

NASHVILLE, TN – The group that is said to have inspired alleged Charleston, SC shooting suspect Dylann Roof expected to hold a conference this weekend in the city that Roof was traveling to when he was caught and arrested. Instead, after the immediate outrage prompted many to contact the hotel that they plan to host the event, the hotel decided to cancel the reservations.

According to the Tennessean, the Guesthouse Inn on Music Valley drive canceled the reservations three days ago after they were alerted that the event they were hosting was being organized by the White supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). “This is definitely not what the Guesthouse Inn represents,” Guesthouse Inn director of sales Michelle Jameson told the newspaper. “The group will not be at our hotel, nor will they ever be at our hotel.”

The CCC was cited in a manifesto reportedly written by Dylann Roof as a source of information that led him to act out on Black on White violence as depicted on the organization’s website. On June 17, Roof allegedly shot and killed nine Black parishoners of the Temple Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, saying to them, “‘You rape our women, and you’re taking over our country, and you have to go.” While the CCC condemned the killings in a statement, it went on to say that the murders “do not detract in the slightest from the legitimacy of some of the positions he has expressed.” noting that silence on Black crime against Whites “only makes acts of murderous frustration more likely.”

Dylan was caught and arrested in Shelby, North Carolina while en route to Nashville.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, this would have been the first CCC conference since the group was connected to the Charleston shooting, and the keynote speaker was supposed to be former CCC board member and American Renaissance publisher Jared Taylor, who for the past four years has been holding annual conferences at the Montgomery Bell Park Inn in Dickson, TN, 45 minutes from Nashville, after hotels similarly shut their doors to him in the Washington, DC area and Charlotte, NC after calls of protest from citizens and government officials. His last conference was last April, and it is likely they will return to the Inn next year. Taylor served as the spokesperson for the CCC in the wake of the Charleston shooting.

Other speakers would have been American Freedom Party’s Earl Holt, Canadian neo-fascist Paul Fromm, who recently claimed that he had been barred from entering the United States by the Department of Homeland Security, and Keith Alexander, the co-host of the White supremacist radio show the Political Cesspool who just became the C.E.O. of the CCC replacing founder Gordon Baum who died in March.