A black protester was jostled and shoved by white Donald Trump supporters Tuesday at a rally in Louisville, Kentucky, according to local news station WLKY.
Video published by the news station showed the black protestor, whom it did not identify, being confronted and pushed by white rally attendees until she left. The protester told WLKY on Tuesday night that she was doing well but trying to “process everything.”
Blogger and Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King later identified the protester as University of Louisville student Shiya Nwanguma. Nwanguma alleged in a Facebook video that the rally attendees called her “a nigger and a cunt.”
“I just got escorted out by the police,” she said in the video. “The people at the rally, they were pushing and shoving at me, cursing at me, yelling at me, called me every name in the book. They’re disgusting and dangerous.”
Matthew Heimbach, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “the face of a new generation of white nationalists,” wrote in a blog post that he was one of the men helping to “drive out” the protestor from the rally.
“Now there’s some viral footage of several heated moments in Louisville. One features yours truly helping the crowd drive out one of the women who had been pushing, shoving, barking, and screaming at the attendees for the better part of an hour,” he wrote at the Traditionalist Youth Network. “I’ll avoid any additional Trump events to ensure that I don’t become a distraction, but the entire point of the BLM’s tactics is to push people until they push back. It won’t be me next time, but White Americans are getting fed up and they’re learning that they must either push back or be pushed down.”
Watch footage of the incident below via WLKY:
This echoes the Palin rallies, when over-zealous crowds demonstrated exactly the hate that the Dems were warning against. But this cycle, both the Dems and the GOP establishment are warning. So, even less likely that the haters will prevail.
Destroying their own party with their hatred.
More please!
He’s afraid of black people pushing everybody down and taking over? It’s a good thing we live in a country where authority, political power and personal liberty aren’t and have never been granted according to skin color, then.
…but White Americans are getting fed up…"
Nothing like an on-the-record admission that it is a race thing with these assholes… Not that we really needed any confirmation, but it is nice to hear them confirm it out of their own mouths.
A few days ago someone said (something to the effect) in a comment that they weren’t sure Rump was intentionally unleashing these racist forces OR if he’d be able to control once they were out. I think that’s about right. Rump has clearly “crossed the Rubicon” at this point with regard to stoking racial hatred. He may not care one way r the other because for him, it’s all about adoration. He doesn’t care who the hell adores him so long as it’s comin’ in.
I have no idea where this goes but we’ve absolutely passed the point of no return on this point as a society. It’s one thing to rip the veneer of civility off of the Rethug Party; I think it’s another thing to allow out of control hatred toward various groups to run completely rampant.