Louisville mayor references "peaceful assembly" where the protest organizer outside Mitch McConnell's house suggests that someone "stab the motherf***er in the heart. Sounds peaceful. #compassionatecity #NoHate full video: https://t.co/HYK1DUEiSn 📸 @nypost https://t.co/hHy3W26GTf pic.twitter.com/6lqUiD9qgM— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) August 6, 2019 Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin tweeted his dismay that Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer would allow protesters to hurl death threats outside the home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The protest was led by Black Lives Matter activist Chanelle Helms who screams the f-word throughout the two-hour late evening protest. Helms is known for her screed urging white people to give up their homes to black families as a form of reparation for slavery. Mayor Fischer responded to Governor Bevin the next morning
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SURJ urges purges of Statues of No Liberty
Neo-Nazis touting white supremacy are battling with anti-racism activists in hotspots across America. The upheaval is one of the ugliest chasms in the country's 241 year history. SURJ spokesman Andrew Stone Porter, a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University, spoke on my radio show about the need for white allies to join people of color and religious minorities to strengthen their position against white nationalists. We also talked about the push to remove Confederacy statues and the notion that monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and King Louis XVI should also be considered for removal.