SPLC should list themselves as a hate group.
The White Lives Matters movement will be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center when it releases its annual Hate Map in February.
“I can’t speak to how many chapters will be listed, but it’s clear that the leadership of the group, the ends of the group — it’s just a flat-out white supremacist group,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the center’s Intelligence Report, in an interview with Chron.com.
“The ideology behind it, the racist leaders, everything about it is racist,” Beirich added.
The leadership Beirich refers to is 40-year-old Rebecca Barnette. In addition to having her hands in the White Lives Matter movement, Barnette is also the vice president of the women’s division of the skinhead group Aryan Strikeforce.[…]
The question as to whether the White Lives Matter group is a white supremacist group was asked, yet again, after protesters with the organization set up shop outside of the NAACP in Houston on Aug. 21.
The group waved Confederate flags – a historic symbol, yes, but one that is also associated with slavery and oppression – and wore guns. As a result not everyone was convinced when Ken Reed, one of the protesters, said, “It has nothing to do with racism on our part.”
“The Confederate flag throws me off,” resident Quintina Richardson said during the protest. “You’re saying Black Lives Matter is a racist organization but when you’re throwing the Confederate flag up and saying White Lives Matter, are you saying you’re racist?”
Black Lives Matter movement’s motives questioned
The same question has been asked about the Black Lives Matter movement, the movement which inadvertently birthed its antithesis.
The Southern Poverty Law Center took notice after many requests to label the Black Lives Matter movement a hate group came across its figurative desks in the wake of the murder of eight Dallas and Baton Rouge police officers.
Short answer: The center says the Black Lives Matter movement is not a hate group because it seeks to promote a race that has been marginalized throughout history (in other words, black lives also matter.) Plus, the center points out the movement’s leaders have condemned violence.