Politics & Government
White Supremacists Invade DC Bookstore (Video)
A white supremacist group interrupted an author at a D.C. bookstore over the weekend with racist chants.
WASHINGTON, DC -- An author who was discussing a new book at a D.C. bookstore was interrupted by a group of white supremacists who started a racist chant inside the store over the weekend.
The Hill reports that Jonathan M. Metzl, a psychiatrist and director of the Center for Medicine Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University, was interrupted while discussing his book, "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland."
The group, made up of about 10 white men, chanted "this land is our land" as attendees booed. One man with a megaphone reportedly said that Metzl "would have the white working class trade their homeland for handouts."
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The incident happened at a Politics and Prose bookstore in the District.
So this bullshit just went down today at Politics & Prose. White nationalists disrupting @JonathanMetzl talk on his book Dying of Whiteness. Point made. @PM_Learn pic.twitter.com/nucKlrJ8X2
— Catherine Wigginton (@cewigginton) April 27, 2019
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