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According to tweets sent by Chicagos chapter of Black Lives Matter, the United States should ban all Confederate symbols in response to the white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, which left one woman dead and scores more injured.

The group, in a series of tweets, wrote, The fact that the Confederate flag & statues permeate the south is evidence that white supremacy was never overthrown in the United States.

Comparing Confederate symbols and monuments to Germanys ban on all Nazi-related propaganda, the group added, After WWII, Germany outlawed the Nazis, their symbols, salutes & their flags. All confederate flags & statue, & groups should be illegal.

The KKK & all other white supremacist groups should be illegal for the same reason Germany made them illegalfor crimes against humanity, the group wrote. The murder of Heather Heyer reveals white supremacists value no life, even white life. We must end white supremacy in the United States.

Charlottesville, Virginia, Black Lives Matter activist Lisa Woolfork gave an interview to Truth-Out on Monday, speaking about Confederate symbols in the United States as well as the domestic terror attack.

Woolfork told the website that there has been a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville every month since May, and added that many of the rallies focused on Confederate monuments.

About the monuments, Woolfork said, One thing that I like to impress upon is that I think it is very important to retain attention on the Confederate monument. Of course, many people are turning to Louisiana and New Orleans as an example of a mayor who decided to step up and say, No more. These are relics of a racist past and I want us to build a better future as a city. We do not need these any longer. They have outlived their usefulness. Charlottesville has not done that. They have not done a complete process of reckoning.

Black Lives Matter has been very vocal about the removal of Confederate symbols and monuments since its 2013 inception, and in June 2015, Black Lives Matter-related graffiti was even scrawled across various Confederate monuments across the U.S.

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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh speaks during a town hall event on June 1, 2017 in Boston. file Elise Amendola / AP file

"I didn't want them to get a permit, quite honestly," Walsh said, according to

The permit allows for 100 people to attend. Neither ANSWER Coalition Boston nor Black Lives Matter have acquired permits for the protests.

Walsh later told WGBH Greater Boston that hes confident there will be no violent repeats of Charlottesville, stating that he believed Saturdays group is not the same as those who appeared in Virginia.

This is the second rally planned by the Boston Free Speech Coalition. In May, the event was made up of self-described libertarians and Trump supporters as well as Oathkeepers and American Patriot Three Percenters the latter two groups attended the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville.

John Medlar, one of the organizers, has told multiple media organizations that the rally is not intended for white supremacists, neo-Nazis or members of the Ku Klux Klan and has made it clear that the Boston Free Speech Rally is not for those who attended the protests in Charlottesville. He also claimed the event was for liberals and posted an email he wrote on Facebook that seems to indicate he invited Black Lives Matters Boston chapter to send a speaker.

NBC News was not able to confirm the authenticity of the invitation.

We are seeing this kind of rebranding of what white supremacy is since Charlottesville, but we are not buying this at all, said ANSWER Coalition Boston organizer Kim Barzola.

A number of scheduled speakers who were supposed to attend right-wing firebrands Gavin McInnes and Tim Gionet (also known as Baked Alaska) decided to avoid the rally altogether in light of Charlottesville. Both have shared fears of being labeled white supremacists via social media and claimed to disavow violence.

Current speakers include congressional candidates Shiva Ayyadurai and Samson Racioppi as well as former InfoWars writer Joe Biggs. Kyle Chapman, a California activist who gained notoriety for bashing an Antifa protester with a stick and earned the nickname Based Stickman, will also speak.

Chapman founded the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights, which is to be the tactical defensive arm of McInnes mens-rights organization, the Proud Boys.

Nevertheless, Medlar maintains the rallys aims are nonviolent and will promote free speech for all except hate groups.

"We absolutely denounce the KKK, neo-Nazis, ID Evropa, Vanguard all these legit hate groups. We have nothing to do with them and you dont want them here, we dont want them here, Medlar said, according to

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A Black Lives Matter rally is set for Sunday, August 20th at the West Virginia State Capitol building.

The group C.A.R.E., or Call to Action for Racial Equality, is helping organize the event. Rally organizers want to distinguish this event from other recent protests.

"We'd like to clear up misconceptions of the rally because I think there are concerns that we are wanting to rally around the removal of the Stonewall Jackson statue, but that's definitely not what we were planning to do," C.A.R.E. executive director Gabrielle Chapman said Thursday.

Charleston Police Lt. Scot Blankenship told WSAZ the event will not be near the Stonewall Jackson statue. It will be on the other side of the Capitol building.

Blankenship said the event organizers have been compliant with police to plan the rally.

The event to discuss race relations has been in the works for months. It was originally going to be at West Virginia State University. After the deadly attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, several different groups reached out to C.A.R.E.

"To give accessibility to other organizations, we decided to move it to the Capitol building," Chapman said.

According to police and event organizers, peaceful discussion about race is on the agenda. Speakers and artists will have the floor throughout the event from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

The Capitol grounds prohibit weapons of any kind. That includes sticks that are attached to signs. Police also said bags and backpacks will be subject to search at the rally.

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Portland, Oregon, sports radio station KXTG-FM fired host Dino Costa aftercomments he made in June advocating for drivers to run over Black Lives Matter protesters with their cars gained national attention, RadioInsight reported this week.

The radio station initially stood by Costa despite the controversial comments, but new backlash in light of the Charlottesville, Virginia, Unite the Right protests led the station to terminate the provocative radio personality. Eugene Weekly posted a transcript of the comments Monday.

You know these protests where they shut down the road, they lie in the road? If Im the cops, I wave the traffic on, Costa said during a June 7 broadcast. Listen, as soon as one or two of these sumbitches are run over youll see the entire, in unison, everybody be up off the street. When people are being killed by 18-wheel trucks coming by, pickups, cars. Run em over!

Those comments took on a new resonance after Heather Heyer, a Charlottesville counterprotester, diedaftera white nationalist protester allegedly drove his vehicle into a crowd Saturday.

As late as Monday, a statement from the station said Costa had been disciplined with aggressive actions at the time of the original comments, but he had not been fired. Costa wasnt fired until Wednesday, after the displeasure of listeners, as well as the University of Oregon and the MLS Portland Timbers franchise, grew.

KXTG has broadcast agreements with the Timbers and University of Oregon football. The agreementswere put in jeopardy once Costas June comments gained more widespread attention. Both organizations strongly condemned Costaand the sentiments he expressed.

Costa has had a history of controversial or offensive takes on radio, and thiswasnt the first time his opinions have cost him a job. He was fired from a St. Louis radio stationearlier this year for his comments and behavior, including saying women dont have a place in sports radio.

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Jerome Almon via Facebook

Let me preface this by saying that as black people, we always know there is going to be at least one. You know the type. They do the most to set themselves apart from the rest of us black folks because they want to be viewed as different and special. Even if it means selling other black people up the river, they will stand out in their other blackness by any means necessary.

Such is the case of 52-year-old Jerome Almon, a black man who wrote a racially charged email denouncing Black Lives Matter and advocating for the protection of some Confederate monuments. He told the Washington Post that he sent the email to help Donald Trump defend his response to the Charlottesville white supremacy riot and give him ammunition to condemn groups on the left, including Black Lives Matter.

I wanted to help him. This whole political bread and circuses needs to stop, Jerome Almon told the Post. Black Lives Matter is just as racist as the Nazis or the KKK or anyone else.

Were going to end up in a violent civil war, Almon added, saying that the president is our last chance or the violence you saw in Charlottesville is going to get worse.

Almon sent his email to Trump attorney John Dowd, who received it Tuesday night and shared it with government officials, conservative journalists and other administration allies Wednesday.

John Dowd, a veteran of Washington scandals, says his action does not mean he agrees with the

In the email, Almon claimed that Black Lives Matter has been infiltrated by terrorists. He also appeared to echo the presidents claims defending the central goal of the Charlottesville protest, which was led by a group that claims it rallied to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

At a Tuesday news conference, Trump claimed that the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists were not completely to blame for the violent turn of events at the protest and said that there was blame on both sides. Those comments have created some serious political backlash for the president, who not only has not backed down on them but also doubled down on them in further statements.

Almon told the Post in a phone interview that he has previously met Trump, and as a onetime Obama supporter, he has come to support the current president because hes far more right than he is wrong, and hes done far more on average than his opponents.

Almon said that he wanted to provide the president with facts with which to reinforce his argument about Charlottesville, and in the email he even compared George Washington to Lee.

Both owned slaves, Almon wrote. Both rebelled against the ruling government. Both mens battle tactics are still taught at West Point. Both saved America.

Im going to sum up my feelings about Clayton Bigsby Jerome Almon with two words:

Nigga, please.

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