-Tennessee, United States.-a building of social justice in Tennessee that has hosted such iconic civil rights leaders was destroyed in a fire and a symbol of “pod was found ER white”on the site, said the Center. The symbol, which the officials not described but said that it was connected with the white power movement, was discovered when the main office was completely destroyed in a fire last week, said the Research Center and Education Highlander in a press release on Tuesday. It was painted with spray in the parking lot connected to the main office. No one was injured in the fire on Friday. “Although we do not know the names of the culprits, know that the white power movement has increased and consolidated power in the South, in this nation and around the world,” said Highlander.
Breaking: White power symbol found spray painted at site of the Highlander Center fire. As we said before, there has been a major uptick in white supremacist organizing in E TN including the now defunct TWP, League of the South, Shieldwall etc. pic.twitter.com/yOAGDpxZVw – The Holler Network (@HollerNetwork) April 3, 2019 from 2016, the white power movement has become more visible, and we have seen that it manifests itself in various ways, both subtle and open.
Highlander, 30 minutes east of Knoxville, has provided training and organization for social justice movements emerging in the South since 1932, when Myles Horton founded the Popular School of Highlander.desempeno a key role in the movement by the civil rights by helping to organize boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama, and collaborate on the Foundation of the Committee Coordinator student nonviolent, according to the web site of the Center.
The offices were painted with spray with messages that included a swastika, “1488”, which is frequently used by white supremacists and refers to Adolf Hitler, and anti-chinas slander. The Republican Governor Kevin Stitt described as “abominable” vandalism, and the representatives of the United States Tom Cole and Markwayne Mullin, both native Americans, and Republicans condemned the images.” There is no place in our communities for symbols and language so negligible with the very clear intention to threaten other human beings and those with different points of view”, said Cole.
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