{"id":104039,"date":"2016-08-22T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104039"},"modified":"2016-08-22T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:51:33","slug":"wp-armed-confederate-flag-waving-white-lives-matter-protesters-rally-outside-houston-naacp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104039","title":{"rendered":"WP: Armed, Confederate flag-waving White Lives Matter protesters rally outside Houston NAACP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/08\/22\/armed-confederate-flag-waving-white-lives-matter-protesters-rally-outside-houston-naacp\/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-story-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One sign simply read \u201c14 words,\u201d a reference to the white supremacist motto: \u201cWe must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What exactly is supremacist about securing the existence of your people and a future for your children? Don&#8217;t all groups want to do this? Isn&#8217;t this what Judaism, for example, is about?<\/p>\n<p>I converted to Orthodox Judaism. I believe in Orthodox Judaism. I believe that the Jews are God&#8217;s Chosen People and that God gave his Torah to the Jews. Is this Jewish supremacism? If not, why not?<\/p>\n<p>Every group thinks of itself as supreme but only whites get demonized for it. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSome White Lives Matter supporters, however, suggested the movement was a tit-for-tat response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery few blacks were on board with All Lives Matter, so we are doing our own thing now,\u201d wrote one on Twitter. \u201cWhite Lives Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect every race to be proud of who they are,\u201d Reed said on Fox26. \u201cWe\u2019re out there fighting for our rights just like everyone should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many portrayed White Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter as equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack Lives Matter is allowed. Why not White Lives Matter?\u201d wrote one. \u201cIt\u2019s either both of them or none of them. Pick one.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: One sign simply read \u201c14 words,\u201d a reference to the white supremacist motto: \u201cWe must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.\u201d What exactly is supremacist about securing the existence of your people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104042,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104039\/revisions\/104042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}