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is Proud Boys leader a person of color? (Original Post) Demovictory9 Aug 2019 OP
Wait. What?? Ferrets are Cool Aug 2019 #1
I saw this picture today and wondered... Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #3
Yep. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2019 #2
does he know it? has anyone told him? Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #4
I'm sure he does. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2019 #5
Lol! He's NOT Clayton Bigsby - this guy's not blind! NewDayOranges Aug 2019 #6
One classic comedy bit. Hoyt Aug 2019 #8
Clayton Bigsby 1 & 2 keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #10
His family came from Cuba dalton99a Aug 2019 #7
so he could be afro-Cuban Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #12
He sure looks it dalton99a Aug 2019 #13
The ultimate trolling job? keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #9
maybe Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #11
Patriot Prayer's leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys. lunasun Aug 2019 #14
He's Cuban samir.g Aug 2019 #15
Classic case of appropriation onetexan Aug 2019 #16

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
14. Patriot Prayer's leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 12:35 AM
Aug 2019
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-young-men-of-color-are-joining-white-supremacist-groups

Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, is president of the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys, who call themselves “Western chauvinists,” and “regularly spout white-nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Last month, prior to the Patriot Prayer rally he attended in Portland, Tarrio was pictured with other far-right activists making a hand sign that started as a hoax but has become an in-joke. Last year, Tarrio had traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Unite the Right rally that ended with a neo-Nazi allegedly killing an anti-fascist protester. (The Proud Boys said any members who went to the event were kicked out.

Tarrio and other people of color at the far-right rallies claim institutional racism no longer exists in America. In their view, blacks are to blame for any lingering inequality because they are dependent on welfare, lack strong leadership, and believe Democrats who tell them “You’re always going to be broke. You’re not going to make it in society because of institutional racism,” as one mixed-race man put it.

If racism doesn’t exist, I ask Tarrio, how would he explain the disproportionate killing of young black men by police? “Hip-hop culture,” he says. It “glorifies that lifestyle… of selling drugs, shooting up.” Because of that, “Obviously you’re going to have higher crime rates. Obviously you’re going to have more police presence and more confrontations.” (Police kill black males aged 15 to 34 at nine times the rate of the general population.)

Elysa Sanchez, who is black and Pyuerto Rican, attended the “Liberty or Death Rally Against Left-Wing Violence” in Seattle on Aug. 18, joining about 20 militiamen open-carrying handguns and semi-automatic rifles.
See
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/enrique-tarrio.html
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