The attacker, whose name is John McGraw, was interviewed by an Inside Edition reporter, and says that 26-year-old Rakeem Jones “deserved” the malicious blow to his head, and that he had no regrets about attacking him.

“The next time we see him (Rakeem Jones), we might have to kill him”, McGraw boastfully says in the short video clip below.

As it turns out, the seasoned white supremacist was arrested on Thursday (March 10) after the rally, and was charged with assault. The modus operandi of white supremacists such as John McGraw can be found in others of his ilk, from Mark Fuhrman to George Zimmerman–blatantly open racists who have made light of their hatred and ill-intent towards Melanoid people.

B. Clark

Last week, at a Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, a Black woman was assaulted by a violent throng of white supremacist Trump supporters, causing the incident to go viral. Fast forward to last night, and a similar incident took place, with non-violent Black protesters being attacked in the same fashion.

One of the young men–who according to the New York Daily News is named Rakeem Jones–was blindsided with a punch from an older white man, and physically drug out of the rally filled with rowdy and racist bystanders who enthusiastically encouraged Mr. Jones’s assault. In spite of it all, the fact remains that Jones and the other non-violent protesters saw their constitutional rights violated–which is something that suspected white supremacists often complain about whenever they feel like they are denied of the right to freely express themselves.

The level of vitriol and violence at these Donald Trump rallies are escalating at an alarming rate. The safety of innocent Black people at these events is severely jeopardized, and they must be fully informed of the potentially life-risking choices they make when opting to attend these safe havens for white extremism.

Below is the video footage of Rakeem Jones being assaulted by the white man at the Trump rally.

B. Clark

]]> https://www.melanoidnation.org/black-man-has-his-constitutional-rights-violently-violated-at-a-trump-rally/feed/ 134 https://www.melanoidnation.org/kkk-looks-to-advance-klan-country-in-georgia-gains-an-unlikely-ally-in-the-process/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/kkk-looks-to-advance-klan-country-in-georgia-gains-an-unlikely-ally-in-the-process/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2015 18:58:44 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=2894 The Ku Klux Klan wants to literally mark their territory in the state of Georgia.

After the white extremist group  saw their requests to adopt-a-mile close to the North Carolina border rejected by the Georgia Department of Transportation, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) came to the aid of the Klan by challenging the rejection.

Maya Dillard Smith, Executive Director of Georgia’s ACLU branch, released the following statement:

Accessing the Georgia courts to defend ones constitutional rights is fundamental to protect those very rights. But the state of Georgia believes Georgians only have the right to exercise defense of their most fundamental rights, only if the state says so. It’s that kind of unchecked power that erodes individual liberty guaranteed to each Georgian by the U.S. and Georgia state Constitution.

Although the Klan technically does have the right to “adopt-a-mile”, perhaps the most interesting issue about this story is the ACLU’s willingness to assist the hate group in having their requests granted by the state. The mile that the KKK looks to adopt is located on Route 515 near the border of North Carolina.

If this appeal is granted to the Klan, this would send a vivid and threatening statement to Melanoid people who are living, working, and/or traveling around or through this stretch of highway.

Here is a video showing the Klan’s appeal to adopt a mile in North Georgia, which has being in the works for the past three years.

Here is a link to the story.

B. Clark

Cormega Copening, 17, of Fayatteville, North Carolina, had to strike a plea deal with authorities to ensure that he avoided a 10-year prison sentence. The charge? Child pornography, yet in a very strange way. Copening, who was 16 at the time, took nude photos of himself and ‘sexted’ them to his girlfriend, also a 16-year-old Black teen at the time.

Although the teenage girl is now 17 as well, she was also charged with multiple counts of making and possessing photos of their naked bodies. She took a plea deal in both July and earlier in September (of this year). The conditions of them both avoiding any jail time would be for them both to work  30 hours of community service, and will be banned from having a cellphone for a year. In doing so, their records are cleared and they will avoid registering as sex offenders.

The system of racism/white supremacy has reached so far and wide in its efforts to murder–or incarcerate–as many members of Black Society as possible…even if it means conjuring up outlandish charges against two young Black kids who, like many other teens of all backgrounds and ethnic origin, have engaged in rambunctious behavior a time or two. Mostly, this is only a result of “raging hormones”  in conjunction with the fact that the human brain (particularly the male brain) doesn’t fully develop until the age of 25, which makes it difficult for a teenager to properly rationalize.

It’s apparent that Cormega Copening and his 16-year-old girlfriend at the time are both contrite for their actions. What Copening and the girl deserve at this point is a clean slate, and a fair shot at experiencing adulthood unscathed by burdensome legal woes…like the majority of their teenage peers of the dominant society are able to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4GCnkRXY0

Here’s a link to the story.

B. Clark