White Lives Matter will soon be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC), a prominent civil rights and legal advocacy organization that monitors the "activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists" in the U.S.
"The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) confirmed in mid-August 2016 that it is adding White Lives Matter to its 2017 hate group map and list," reads an editor's note at the bottom of a post on SPLC's website that calls White Lives Matter the "racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement."
Black Lives Matter "is not considered a hate group because its leadership and majority of members have never suggested all white people are evil or that all police officers should be killed or hurt."
"They're a civil rights organization," Potoc explained. "White Lives Matter is completely different.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/white-lives-matter-officially-listed-hate-group-southern/story?id=41771935
"The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) confirmed in mid-August 2016 that it is adding White Lives Matter to its 2017 hate group map and list," reads an editor's note at the bottom of a post on SPLC's website that calls White Lives Matter the "racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement."
Black Lives Matter "is not considered a hate group because its leadership and majority of members have never suggested all white people are evil or that all police officers should be killed or hurt."
"They're a civil rights organization," Potoc explained. "White Lives Matter is completely different.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/white-lives-matter-officially-listed-hate-group-southern/story?id=41771935