Torchlight Parades Are As American (And Estonian) As Apple Pie

Source: www.vdare.com --- Sunday, October 08, 2017
On Saturday night, Richard Spencer organized a torchlight parade in Charlottesville which was entirely peaceful, saying “It was a planned flash mob. It was a great success. We’ve been planning this for a long time. We wanted to prove that we came in peace in May, we came in peace in August, and we come again in peace… Our identity matters. We are not going to stand by and allow people to tear down these symbols of our history and our people – and we’re going to do this again.” I’ve pointed out here that there’s nothing inherently evil about torchlight parades. Torchlight parades are an American tradition–during the dark days of World War II, when there were real Nazis and Fascists to fight, a torchlight parade greeted the re-election of…Franklin Delano Roosevelt [ Remarks to the Torchlight Paraders on Election Night. Hyde Park, New York. November 7, 1944]. It was reenacted at Hyde Park last year. None of these torches were used to set anything on fire–unlike what happened during Black Lives Matters riots in Ferguson and Baltimore. While it’s an American tradition, it’s not a recent American tradition— Richard Spencer may have been inspired by a youth movement in Estonia which has had great success with torchlight processions. (Pictured right.) In 2016, Ruuben Kalep of Estonia (right) spoke at the American Renaissance conference, and the conference report said Ruuben Kaalep , at age 22 the youngest speaker ever to address an AmRe ...

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