ALERT! Joint American Freedom Party/Council of Conservative Citizens Conference at Montgomery Bell
The locals of the Nashville, Tennessee area are getting real tired of nazis, fascists and White supremacists making their local park Montgomery Bell State Park, their safe space for conferences year after year, and last year the ante was up. See, it used to be just the American Renaissance Conference, which is holding their annual conference in the park May 17-19. As of last year the American Freedom Party and Council of Conservative Citizens, two groups that have a close relationship with the editor of American Renaissance (Jared Taylor was a onetime CCC board member and a spokesperson for the group in the wake of the Dylann Roof shootings in which CCC was said to have inspired him), started having their annual conference in the park as well. Well that conference will be back in the park in June and the roster of speakers is going to be a shitshow of neo-fascist. They include:
- David Duke, the former Klan leader and Louisiana State Representative who pretty much everyone knows as the face of hate in the US.
- Richard Spencer, the head of the National Policy Institute who hasn’t been heard much from since March of last year when he declared that going out holding events isn’t fun anymore because in his words, “Antifa is winning”, and who pretty much everyone knows as the face of hate in the US – that got punched.
- James Edwards, a onetime bonehead who is a Council of Conservative board member who hosts a radio show called the Political Cesspool.
- Kevin MacDonald, the anti-Semitic professor at California State University – Long Beach.
- Rachael Pendergraft, the national spokesperson for what is called the Knights Party, which the flyer announcing the conference prefers to call it because using its actual name – the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan – might remind people that this is the group founded by David Duke back in the day.
- William Johnson, a longtime White supremacist who runs the American Freedom Party, once known as American Third Position
- Tom Sunic, a writer and speaker who appears regularly at neo-Nazi conferences, whether it is Council of Conservative Citizens putting it on or the less benign National Alliance.
- Michael Hill, the founder and head of the League of the South, one of the groups responsible for instigating the violence in Charlottesville in 2017, where he, Duke and Spencer were supposed to speak.
- Earl P. Holt III, President of the Council of Conservative Citizens who not only tried to make his organization the real victims in the Dylann Roof shootings, but has a history of saying some bizarre and threatening crap about Black people and others.
- Adrien Kreig, a writer for the rag Nationalist Times and AFP member.
Part of the reason why the locals are ticked off is because this is their park and nowadays whenever these groups hold their conferences, no one is allowed to use it, particularly the Inn where they are holding them. Part of the lure for the nazis is how this is a public place that is open to all, but that is not the case, which is ironic because it is in the name of their rights that they are allowed to hold their events there, even while it is infringing on everyone elses. Harriet Tubman House is organizing groups in the area to assert themselves and those rights they are supposed to pretend they don’t have. So both conferences are going to be a big deal, you can be sure of that.