Media reports continue on ‘Rally For Forrest’ in Memphis

KUAF Public Radio:

“Billy Roper, coordinator of the white nationalist Shieldwall Network, stood with a small contingent of men in combat boots in one protest area. Those seeking access to their demonstration were searched for weapons by Memphis police and given wristbands.

“I led the largest gathering of white nationalists at the U.S. capitol in 2002 and they had less security at the capitol than they do today in Memphis,” Roper said. “I want to thank them for their professionalism. But I do not thank the city council or the mayor because it was their illegal and unethical practices which made it necessary for us to be here.”…

“The city council and the Mayor of Memphis definitely violated the spirit of the 2014 act passed by the state legislature,” Roper argued for the pro-Confederate side. “They violated their own sunshine laws which regulate how public property can be divested to a private entity, and they violated the desecration of graves act, because under that pedestal lies the bodies of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife.”

Fox 13 video: “Who is Billy Roper?”

Another article: Memphis Daily News newspaper

“Roper’s group unfurled a banner a half block west of the western border of Health Sciences Park reading “Diversity = White Genocide.” Between interviews that Roper said were the main purpose of his group’s trip to Memphis, he snapped a photo of a billboard at the Manassas and Union intersection promoting the city’s observance of the 50th anniversary of the sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“We’re not going to go quietly,” Roper said. “We’re not going to be erased.”

In another interview he referred to “our founding fathers, who were white nationalists.”

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