{"id":1755,"date":"2012-03-08T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/supreme-white-alliance-gets-routed-in-duluth-mn\/"},"modified":"2012-03-08T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:37:55","slug":"supreme-white-alliance-gets-routed-in-duluth-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/08\/supreme-white-alliance-gets-routed-in-duluth-mn\/","title":{"rendered":"'SUPREME WHITE ALLIANCE' GETS ROUTED IN DULUTH, MN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Duluth\"Best known for having reputed members that plotted to kill Barack Obama, the Supreme White Alliance was responding to a anti-racist campaign that has the tagline “It’s hard to see racism when you’re White”. We’re thinking they were just trying to make it a little easier.<\/p>\n

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It probably wasn’t the sort of showing members of the Supreme White Alliance<\/a> had in mind, but really, what else did they expect? <\/p>\n

Eleven members of the white supremacist group took part in an anti-Un-Fair Campaign<\/a> march in downtown Duluth on Saturday morning, only to be vastly outnumbered by counter-protesters, some of whom eventually pelted the white supremacists with snowballs. <\/p>\n

Four anti-racists were arrested<\/a> on disorderly conduct charges.<\/p>\n

Members of the Supreme White Alliance decided to march in response to the Un-Fair Campaign’s controversial “It’s hard to see racism when you’re white”<\/a> billboards, which have been visible around Duluth since January. A statement posted on the SWA’s homepage<\/a> last week says. <\/p>\n

the Un-Fair Campaign “has plastered advertisments [sic] all over [Duluth] basically telling white people that they are automatically racist because they are white.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The billboard that sparked the controversy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Robert Hester of Superior, a member of the Alliance and the rally’s organizer, told the Duluth News Tribune<\/a> he was unable to give his prepared speech during Saturday’s march, as counter-protesters drowned him out with chants of “Nazis out!” “Get out of Duluth!” and “Go home!”<\/p>\n

It was over quickly. A half-hour after the white supremacists were met downtown by about 200 sometimes snowball-throwing counter-protesters, police escorted the Alliance members into Duluth City Hall amid chants of “Run and hide, go inside.” They walked through the building and out to their cars without further incident.<\/p>\n

The Tribune reports that a total of about 500 counter-protesters turned out at the Duluth Civic Center and at Canal Park, meaning the white supremacists were outnumbered 50 to 1. <\/p>\n

So while it may sometimes be hard for Duluthians to see racism in their 90-percent-white community, it seems they won’t let a downtown white supremacist march escape their collective gaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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