A prolonged American Prospect whine about GOP community outreach centers in minority communities, especially the Lumbee tribe in North Carolina, includes this contrast.
The ad recounted the 1958 Battle of Hayes Pond, where a Lumbee contingent of 400 chased off a Ku Klux Klan rally…
In June 2020, a small Black Lives Matter protest took to the streets, beginning from the UNC Pembroke campus. Estimates put the march’s attendance at around 150 people, demonstrating, as thousands of American towns did, against police violence. The march didn’t get far before it was set upon by an armed and agitated Lumbee counterprotest, 300 strong, “probably more than that,” said the Rev. Tyrone Watson, president of the Robeson NAACP, who was among the demonstrators. “They had automatic rifles and handguns. It was something that you would see in the ’50s.” In a cruel inversion of the Battle of Hayes Pond, the protesters were pelted with bottles and rocks, menaced with knives and guns by Native counterprotesters beneath a large Trump flag.
It’s not an inversion, but a repetition.
When the Lumbees fought off white supremacists, they were cheered, but when they fight off black supremacists, suddenly they’re the bad guys.
Tyrone Watson tries to depict an Indian tribe defending itself against black supremacists as somehow comparable to Bull Connor. But that’s how supremacists think.
The encounter led to a series of angry media attacks like this one.
Reckoning With Anti-Blackness in Indian Country – The New Republic
Won’t someone those Indians to kneel when a black supremacist marches by.
The Lumbees were cheered for opposing one set of racists, but jeered for opposing another bunch of racists whose supremacism and bigotry are in vogue. And the Indians are being compared to the KKK.
As the protesters approached a shopping plaza anchored by a Maxway discount store, they were outnumbered by counter-protesters. A crowd of mostly Native Americans threw whatever they had on hand. One man had a knife, and another carried a military-style rifle slung over his shoulder. A large flag in support of then-President Donald Trump flew from the back of a pickup truck.
Watson, 52, immediately thought of the Ku Klux Klan.
“Instead of KKK signs,” he said, “they were Trump signs.”
When you hate everyone, maybe you’re the problem.
Watson… has navigated a world where he says black people endure racism from two fronts: the whites and the Indians.
If you’re Indian and vote Republican, the media and its black supremacist allies will call you the new KKK.
somehistory says
The real *racists* are just like the rabid mozlums…they “hate” everyone not like them; but it won’t keep them from turning on each other.
The Black pastor can’t get help from the *owners* of the bm who buy themselves into luxury with the money donated for the “cause.” Because the true “racist” is only interested in the self of the racist.
And they must keep fomenting trouble because that’s how they make their living off of others who work and are made to feel compassionate for the “downtrodden” and maybe a little guilty for what their great, great, great, great grand parents did just by being White.
The Native Americans…of whatever Tribe they may be…have every right to oppose those racists out to make trouble for them. Just as anyone has the same right to self-protection and self-preservation.
What rational person wants to see their homes looted and burned while being called names?
Wellington says
Rank double standard on display again, courtesy of Leftthink. As for BLM, it is Marxist by its own admission, hates the police, is anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-capitalist and profoundly corrupt. Anyone still supporting BLM is, at best, a complete fool, at worst, utterly malevolent.
Scott says
I agree with you.BLM should be shut down for good.They are a disgrace to America
Scott says
It time to tell these drug dealing, child molesters, rapist ,and murders to tell them FUCK YOU!
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
At least some of the naïve fools who initially supported BLM are waking up to the truth.
Some are, albeit very quietly, removing BLM lawn signs, bumper stickers, etc.
But they’ll never talk about it…
Scott says
BLM are the most racist group I’m the history of the world They are worst than Talbian and KKK.They want to destroy USA . All of them should be sent back to Africa where they belong.
gravenimage says
Media Accuses Indians of Racism for Opposing BLM
………….
This just keeps getting more grotesque.
And no–opposing violent Marxist BLM is *not* anti-Black. What vicious claptrap.
tgusa says
Its getting complicated out there in that loose coalition that is named the modern (progressive?) democrat party. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people you don’t want to hang out with.
Westman says
“Watson… has navigated a world where he says black people endure racism from two fronts: the whites and the Indians.”
Wat? There are only whites and Indians who don’t appreciate black behavior in the Big Cities?
There is an up and coming group that is moving to conservatism – Hispanics. And that demographic, dear Watson, is going to bury you(politically).
Avinoam Ben Dor says
BLM are the most racist Antisemitic hate group in the US.
I’d compare them to Neo Nazis, KKK and White Supremacists of the black people.
They are the extremists that disgrace the whole black communities of America.
gravenimage says
+1
Andrew Blackadder says
I wonder love to see some video of those Indians chasing the blacks out of town…
Good for them and waving Trump Flags as they can see who is on their side and who aint…