Individuals associated with some of the country鈥檚 oldest and most violent racist skinhead groups have been charged with hate crimes in Washington state, just hours after a jury convicted a neo-Nazi of murder for his actions at the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Five men have been arrested in New York after being caught on video singling out and attacking protesters Friday last week聽during Proud Boys-led violence.
The radical right started the year on a roll, with allies in the White House. But then came Charlottesville, and the movement was knocked back on its heels. Still, Trump's rhetoric and the country's changing demographics continue to buoy the movement.
From its inception, the聽alt-right聽has attempted to paint itself as 鈥渘ormal,鈥� just a growing movement of average American white men who happen to be obsessed with racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and misogyny.
For the racist 鈥渁lt-right鈥� and white nationalist crowd, the song 鈥淐harlottesville Ballad (War is Coming)鈥� by 鈥渇olk鈥� musician Paddy Tarleton (identified as Patrick Corcoran by聽, a newspaper in Delaware) has been the song of late summer in 2017.
Charles Powne, owner of Soleilmoon Recordings, recently responded to an inquiry from Portland, Oregon鈥檚 Willamette Weekly听(WW) regarding 澳彩开奖鈥檚 listing of his music label as a seller of 鈥淗ate Music.鈥� Powne said, "The solution to bad speech is not to shut it down, but to overcome it with more speech.鈥�
Neo-Nazis advertised a white-power rock show to be followed by a march into gay neighborhood, but they never showed up to face the hundreds who turned out to protest their plans.
White power music was in trouble. But then racist bands discovered iTunes, and now they're back in business.
