Antifa Claims Victory After Alt-Right Pulls Out of Second Tennessee "White Lives Matter" Rally

31.10.17

Antifa Claims Victory After Alt-Right Pulls Out of Second Tennessee "White Lives Matter" Rally: Jenkins stopped short. A grin crept across his face, and applause erupted from the crowd. “Antifa” (short for antifascist) protesters chanted “Nazi punks f—k off!" Friends and strangers in the crowd exchanged hugs. The feeling of jubilation in the crowd at Murfreesboro was undergirded with a palpable sense of relief. Many of the anti-racist activists had just traveled to Murfreesboro from Shelbyville, Tennessee where another “White Lives Matter” rally had taken place earlier in the day. There, surrounded by shuttered businesses, and counterprotesters, white demonstrators with dreams of creating an all-white country, created an atmosphere of tension and terror. Dressed in all black, the demonstrators shouted racial epithets into the crisp fall air. Through a series of speeches, they made the case for a national socialist country, or an explicitly Nazi America.