{"id":2204,"date":"2013-10-13T02:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/league-of-the-south-overwelmed-at-rally-by-counterprotest\/"},"modified":"2013-10-13T02:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T02:32:05","slug":"league-of-the-south-overwelmed-at-rally-by-counterprotest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/13\/league-of-the-south-overwelmed-at-rally-by-counterprotest\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH OVERWELMED AT RALLY BY COUNTERPROTEST"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"101213LOS3\"The Tennessee Anti-Racist Network<\/a>, The organization that formed around opposing the American Renaissance Conference earlier this year just outside Nashville is getting stronger, and today they showed the League of the South just how much stronger!<\/h3>\n

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MURFREESBORO<\/strong> \u2014 Counter-protesters Saturday outnumbered rallying League of the South members 2-to-1 at a demonstration the group said was meant awareness about the displacement of Southern people.<\/p>\n

Michael Cannon of the activist group Statewide Organizing for Community Empowerment said the more than 125 counter-protesters were a testament to the way most people in Rutherford County would feel about the League of the South, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a racist neo-Confederate group.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to take a stance against racist, extremist and fascist groups like the League of the South,\u201d said Cannon, who is also a student at Middle Tennessee State University.<\/p>\n

David Jones, Tennessee chairman for League of the South, said the group was not a white organization, but a Southern organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a matter of racial pride,\u201d said Jones, who lives an hour west of Nashville in Lobelville. \u201cIt\u2019s not racism. You have to get inside someone\u2019s head to determine what is and what is not racism. And it\u2019s very hard to get inside each others heads unless we really know each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some people who believe in the purity of having their race. … Personally, I\u2019ve got two nephews and niece that are half-black. My own grandchildren, their father is a good ole\u2019 Mississippi boy, and obviously my daughter is white. I\u2019ve got white grand babies, and I like it that way. People are allowed to have a preference.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"101213LOS\"The League of the South also held its rally to show public disagreement with Somalian refugees living in the Middle Tennessee area, according to Michael Hill, president of League of the South.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been dumped with by the government a bunch of refugees,\u201d said Hill, who lives in Killen, Ala. \u201cThere\u2019s the controversy with the (Murfreesboro) mosque, and there\u2019s the controversy with Tyson foods (in Bedford County) hiring a lot of illegals. And we\u2019re here to protest that, to show the people who have been here for generations of families that there\u2019s somebody here who supports them and opposes the demographic and cultural changes that will come when you dump a completely new population into an area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily Mitchell, a first-grade teacher at David Youree Elementary in Smyrna, said she came to counter-protest League of the South because she wanted her students to know she supported all of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had the privilege and honor of working with all sorts of diverse students and families,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cThey\u2019ve taught me so much more than I\u2019ve taught them.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that she thought the group felt displaced because their views \u201care becoming more and more of a minority. They assume that if they shout louder that people will still know they\u2019re there. But we, on the other hand, are also shouting to let people know that we\u2019re here to be a voice for Tennesseans who don\u2019t feel that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Cushman, chairman for League of the South in South Carolina, organized the rally and said the group was not against \u201cforeigners, Iraqis or Somalis. But Somalis have a country and that\u2019s Somalia. That\u2019s their homeland. We have ours and that\u2019s the South. … We\u2019d like to see a free South.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c(Secession) could take many different forms, to be honest,\u201d Cushman said. \u201cI generally don\u2019t get in to the specifics of it; it\u2019s more the idea that we\u2019re promoting right now. Basically, we\u2019re just working on Southern nationalist awareness. I think the original 13 states would be a good start. We just need a place of our own.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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