It's nice to see that an anti-immigrant "white pride" rally in Hudson, NH, flopped. The ten participants were outnumbered by the protesters against the rally. They picked Hudson as a friendlier place for their views than Nashua; in the past, Hudson police have arrested at least one foreigner for "trespassing" in the town.
The anti-immigrant crowd is a powerful political force, but this group didn't try to soften its message, and people won't accept explicit racism. There's still hope for rolling back the lunacy.
Update: A message board run by "North East White Pride" linked to this post. I'm almost tempted to link back, to give their full flavor with references to "the true environment for whites," a declaration that "Racial blood must be preserved in its purity at all costs" under a "Nuke Israel" banner, and so on. A comment after the link says, "Ask the hundreds of people beeping, waving and giving us the thumbs up if we 'flopped'." There's scant support for white supremacists in the Nashua-Hudson area, and if people paid any attention to them at all, it was a different digit they were presenting. But the page does confirm that it's the Hudson Police's policy of illegally arresting people for "trespassing" on public streets which endears the town to them. Birds of a feather.
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Actually the fact that people no longer accept explicit racism is at best a mixed bag - it draws bigots into using code words and 'subtle' forms of racism. And those are still endemic.
We've got a long way to go yet.
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