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In front of the White House now: anti-white supremacy rally in response to a weekend of violence that left more than 30 people dead in two mass shootings over a span of mere hours. #dc
Sherrilyn Ifill, the director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, tells the crowd here that President Trump “did not invent white supremacy,” though he has given it new life in America. People in the audience are shouting “yes!” as she speaks. #dc #WhiteSupremacy
The list of grievances here is long: Speakers are decrying gun violence, racism, the president’s rhetoric, Russian election interference, a lack of action in the Senate on gun control and lack of action against white supremacist groups by the US Department of Justice. #DC
Farhana Khera, the executive director of @MuslimAdvocates, called out tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Youtube for supporting hate and allowing white supremacy to have a platform. “It’s not just the Trump campaign profiting off white supremacy” she said. #DC 
LATEST from today’s protest: Demonstrators call for gun reform, end to white-supremacist rhetoric after weekend of deadly violence washingtonpost.com/local/proteste…
