Houston Needs to Prepare for a White Supremacist Gathering
Call them alt-right, or Nazis, or whatever keyword you like. Houston has seen a disturbing trend in high profile bigotry over the course of 2018. The most recent was an invasion of people at the West Alabama Ice House that started chanting literal Nazi slogans. You can see a video of that here. There’s also been a meme making the rounds regarding a University of Houston student and teacher’s assistant named Cole Richard Jones who associates with the neo-Nazi Patriot Front group. This all just within the past summer, not to mention a possible hate crime beating of Christopher Bradford committed in alt-right polos, the white power desecration of the Rothko Chapel and the open displays of white supremacy by concert goers at White Oak Music Hall.
Meanwhile, not in H-Town, the Nazis are continuing to get organized. A second Unite the Right Rally is being planed in Washington D.C. You’ll remember the first turned fatal when a white supremacist drove his Dodge Challenger into the crowd, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 more.
It’s quite reasonable to assume that Houston will not escape having its own shameful gathering of bigots. The reactionary, racist right of our city was already tricked into action once by trolls posing as Antifa activists wanting the removal of the Sam Houston statue in the museum district. Smaller, but infinitely more embarrassing, we had protestors show up to yell at elementary school children attending Houston Independent School District’s first Arabic-immersion campus in 2015.
The question is, what the hell is the city going to do when the inevitable rally happens? The right to assemble is one of the most fundamental protections in the United States constitution, but that doesn’t mean that things should proceed completely unregulated.
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