Texas A&M cancels ‘White Lives Matter’ protest scheduled for 9/11

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Texas A&M University said in a press release on Monday that it was cancelling the “White Lives Matter” protest that had been scheduled to take place on September 11th on the campus.

Spokeswoman Amy Smith said that the decision was reached after conferring with “law enforcement, system leaders and regents,” according to the Houston Chronicle.

Originally, the university had defended the event, which would feature alt-right leader Richard Spencer, but when  its organizer, Preston Wiginton, referenced the violence this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, they canceled the protest.

Smith said that Wiginton “directly linked his plans for A&M to the weekend violence in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia with a press release that read, ‘Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M.’”

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Wiginton said that he had planned the protest because “young white people are just sick and tired of the liberal agenda of pushing white guilt down their throat” and criticized the decision to cancel the event, saying, “They violated our First Amendment rights. Whites are now in the 1960s. Do we have to sit in the back of the bus?”

He also said that he had chosen Texas A&M as the venue because its students are generally nonviolent and because he felt the police would do a better job protesting them. He said that “Charlottesville was mishandled” and that “if the alt-right were allowed to speak and peacefully assemble, there wouldn’t be anybody dead today,” according to The Eagle in Bryan, Texas.

He added that he hadn’t seen a problem with holding the event on the anniversary of 9/11 because youth “just don’t relate to 9/11.”

“Every day they see murder and explosions on TV. … They don’t attach themselves to something that happened 20 years ago. It’s a non-event to them,” he said.

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