South Carolina: White Nationalist Group Promotes Confederate and Gadsden Flags

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) rejects the symbols of division and hate, and rejects the views of “white nationalism.”

On June 26, 2010, the white nationalist, anti-Semitic group Occidental Dissent held a rally in South Carolina promoting the Confederate Flag.  In their rally, they jointly waved the Confederate Flag and the Gadsden Flag together.

The Occidental Dissent group claims to seek “the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America”    The group also has a history of seeking to deny women’s rights, and has publicly stated its goals are to infiltrate political organizations to promote “white nationalism.”

South Carolina: White Nationalist, Anti-Semitic Group Occidental Dissent Flies Confederate and Gadsden Flags Together (Photo: YouTube)

South Carolina: White Nationalist, Anti-Semitic Group Occidental Dissent Flies Confederate and Gadsden Flags Together (Photo: YouTube)

One of the speakers at the event referred to the NAACP as the “National Association of Retarded People” to laughter from the crowd.

South Carolina: Pro-Confederate Speaker Attacks NAACP as "National Association for Retarded People" to Crowd Laughter (Photo: YouTube)

South Carolina: Pro-Confederate Speaker Attacks NAACP as "National Association for Retarded People" to Crowd Laughter (Photo: YouTube)

The Occidental Dissent views that the “Ku Klux Klan is an authentic expression of American nationalism.”  The Virginia-headquartered Occidental Dissent has been seeking to reach out to the Ku Klux Klan in Virginia, as well as the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, (CofCC), the Nazi skinhead Volksfront group, and the American Renaissance, for the promotion of white nationalism and anti-Semitism.

Our Children Must Learn the Symbols of Hope and Unity, Not Hate and Division  (Photo: YouTube)

Our Children Must Learn the Symbols of Hope and Unity, Not Hate and Division (Photo: YouTube)

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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our universal human rights, equality and liberty for all.  R.E.A.L. rejects racism, rejects anti-Semitism, and rejects hate and intolerance.  On August 28, 2009, R.E.A.L. called for an end to promotion of symbols of division and hate, at the Robert E. Lee Memorial.

Our children need to be taught messages of hope and unity, not ones of hate and division.

Our message to groups that promote symbols of hate and division is consistently the same…

Choose Love, Note Hate.  Love Wins.

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