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Thu Nov 24, 2016, 02:49 AM Nov 2016

White supremacist mocked after proposing the 'WAACP'

White supremacist leader Preston Wiginton drew considerable backlash on Wednesday after proposing the establishment of an organization called the "WAACP."

The comments were reported by the Texas A&M University student newspaper, The Battalion.

"If we want to have a white state, or a white community or a white homeland we should be able to have that," Wiginton told The Battalion. "We respect that for all people. If we look at the NAACP, black people have the right to have that. Why can't white people have a WAACP?"

"WAACP" is apparently a failed attempt to modify the acronym NAACP, which stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2016/11/23/white-supremacist-mocked-calling-founding-thewaacp

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