Today the ProJo featured a story about racist flyers proclaiming '#WhiteLivesMatter' that were distributed around East Greenwich on Grand View Road, Cora Street, Phillips Road and Lebaron Drive. However, typical of the Journal, the coverage was rather shallow and childish, but a little sleuthing on Google reveals some more information about the group behind this move.
Apparently an uncoordinated campaign, the text is derived from a white supremacist website, American Renaissance, run by Jared Taylor and Henry Wolff out of Oakton, VA. The website, admittedly a little more refined than the typical messes seen offered up by kooks, is a collection of barely-legible screeds, rants, and ruses that seem intent on proving the coming apocalypse for the white race. Taylor, who has a career of bigotry dating back to the 1970's, is also connected to the Council of Conservative Citizens, which was claimed by Charleston shooter Dylann Roof as an inspiration for the carnage in South Carolina last week, as reported by Michelle Goldberg at The Nation.
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