Texas A&M Cancels White Lives Matter Rally

COLLEGE STATION, TX — The highly-publicized White Lives Matter slated for Sept. 11 on the campus of Texas A&M has been cancelled, according to state representative John Raney's office.

According to an exclusive interview by KBTX in Bryan/College Station, WLM event organizer Preston Wiginton had harsh words for Texas lawmakers.

"This obviously shows lawmakers and leaders in Texas don't care about white people," Wiginton told the TV station.

The student body had already begun planning a counter protest as shown in the above photo.

Wiginton announced the event immediately after the clashes of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK in Charlottesville, Virginia. The keynote speaker was going to be Richard Spencer, a leader in the white nationalists movement.

Wiginton organized a similar event at Texas A&M last December when Spencer spoke to a small group of people. Many folks in the Brazos Valley of Texas showed up in protest of Spencer and his speech.

The event that was scheduled for Sept. 11 was to be from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Rudder Fountain. To counter that, the Aggie student body was planning a quiet protest from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., with students proposing to form a human wall encircling the WLM protest and with their backs turned to the WLM crowd.

When asked by the student newspaper The Battalion on why the protest was planned for Sept. 11, a day that lives in infamy in U.S. history, the leader had more snide remarks and most likely insulted a student body that's probably as patriotic as any public university in the country.

Wigington said planning the event had nothing to do with the specific date.

“Primarily because it is the second week after school starts and Monday is a busy day on campus,” Wiginton said. “It has nothing to do with 9/11, the twin tower situation. I find that the millennial generation doesn't even relate to 9/11 and it was the date that was open.”

Top image: Demonstrators hold signs as they chant outside the venue where Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, is scheduled to speak at Texas A&M University, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, in College Station, Texas. Spencer is scheduled to speak at Texas A&M University after being invited by a former student. The university is holding a an event to highlight diversity and unity at the same time Spencer is set to speak.

AP Photo/David J. Phillip