Green said the team, cheerleaders and members of the school band were walking to dinner when a truck approached the group, revved its engines before someone in the vehicle shouted the n-word.

Far-right extremists have made a presence in the region. In 2018, at least nine hate groups operated in the region of Spokane and northern Idaho, including Identity Evropa, Proud Boys, ACT for America and America’s Promise Ministries, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

  • @Ok_imagination@lemmy.world
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    403 months ago

    I thought by the title something like this happened in Utah. But based on the article, it was Utah’s team that this happened to. They were staying in coeur d’alene, which is known as white pride country.

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    I shave my head when my hair gets long enough that it annoys me because I don’t like going to get my hair cut. Unfortunately, because of that, I’ve had more than one person say, “white power, brother” to me. If only they could see me with my Jew-fro I get if I don’t do that. I mean the nose should have been a giveaway.

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    It never ceases to amuse me that a bunch of grown men, and I mean that in only the literal sense of course due to their age, call themselves “proud boys.”

    It would be hysterical if they weren’t so dangerous