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Key said participants will try to get as close to Wiginton’s event as possible. “Various groups throughout the country concerned with the political status of whites in America will be attending as well,” he wrote.ĭetails for the counterprotest were less specific. The focus, he said, will be to protest “the liberal agenda of White Guilt and white genocide that is taught at most all universities in America.” There will also protests against specific A&M professors. There will be other speakers and a DJ, too, he said. Wiginton, who briefly attended A&M and has organized several white nationalist events at the school, said in his press release that he has invited Spencer back to College Station for the September event. James Earl Rudder, who led a group of Army Rangers up 100-foot cliffs to topple Nazi gun barracks during the D-Day invasion. The planned site for Wiginton's rally is a fountain named after famous Aggie Gen. “Aggies started fighting Nazis in World War II. “We hoped that December was the last time we would have to protest them,” Key said. Meanwhile, A&M held its own simultaneous concert event at its football stadium across the street. Outside, thousands of people protested, leading the Texas Department of Public Safety to clear A&M’s Memorial Student Center out of safety concerns. Spencer's talk was interrupted repeatedly with shouting, pushing and shoving among people in the crowd. That night, the campus seemed constantly on the brink of boiling over.
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The last time was in December, when Spencer gave a speech to about 400 people at A&M's Memorial Student Center. “Just like the last time they showed up, we want to demonstrate as clearly as we can that their ideas are not welcome here.” “White supremacists keep coming to our campus thinking we’re going to support them,” said Adam Key, a doctoral student at A&M and the organizer of the counterprotest. The organizer of the counterprotest said the event would be nonviolent, and was organized to “demonstrate that members of the Aggie community do not support the hateful bigotry espoused by Wiginton and the planned speakers.”
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That event will be called “BTHO Hate,” the name of which borrows from an A&M football chant expressing the desire to “beat the hell outta” the opposing team. Within hours, a counterprotest had been planned. Word of the planned rally generated immediate outrage on social media. At the top of a Saturday press release announcing the event, Wiginton declared “TODAY CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW TEXAS A&M,” referencing the violence in Virginia.