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Proud Boys Leader Admits Their Rallies Are For Fighting And Wasting Money
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Proud Boys head Enrique Tarrio (center, wearing sunglasses at a rally last weekend in Portland, Oregon.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/proud-boys-rallies-portland_n_5d5e9882e4b0dfcbd4893ee5
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is Proud Boys leader a person of color? (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Aug 2019
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)1. Wait. What??
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)3. I saw this picture today and wondered...
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)2. Yep.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)4. does he know it? has anyone told him?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)5. I'm sure he does.
NewDayOranges
(692 posts)6. Lol! He's NOT Clayton Bigsby - this guy's not blind!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)8. One classic comedy bit.
keithbvadu2
(36,819 posts)10. Clayton Bigsby 1 & 2
Clayton Bigsby 1 & 2
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)7. His family came from Cuba
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)12. so he could be afro-Cuban
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)13. He sure looks it
keithbvadu2
(36,819 posts)9. The ultimate trolling job?
The ultimate trolling job?
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)11. maybe
lunasun
(21,646 posts)14. Patriot Prayer's leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys.
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 Youre always going to be broke. Youre not going to make it in society because of institutional racism, as one mixed-race man put it.
If racism doesnt 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 youre going to have higher crime rates. Obviously youre 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.
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http://www.afrocubaweb.com/enrique-tarrio.html
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 Youre always going to be broke. Youre not going to make it in society because of institutional racism, as one mixed-race man put it.
If racism doesnt 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 youre going to have higher crime rates. Obviously youre 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
samir.g
(835 posts)15. He's Cuban
onetexan
(13,041 posts)16. Classic case of appropriation