If a group came to your town wanting to walk the streets to show that they are superior because of their race, and that you are inferior because of your race, what would you do? Remembering that every person who has attended public school in America is supposed to have been taught that the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights states: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, … or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” would you and your fellow citizens try to prove them wrong, or would you want to prove them right?

No Nazis - No Klan picture from The Washington Post

Well, in Toledo, Ohio, the people there not only agreed with the goal of the white supremacists’ march on Saturday, but they went to great effort to prove the supremacists to be correct. According to Associated Press, the crowd protesting an orderly and peaceful white supremacists’ march turned violent, throwing rocks at police, vandalizing vehicles and stores, destroying a service station, and torching a neighborhood bar. Local city authorities, who had refused to grant a marching permit to the supremacist group, tried to calm the riotous behavior of their citizens, but were cursed and threatened with assassination. The hooligans injured several police officers.

The small group of about two dozen members of “America’s Nazi Party”, had gathered at a city park to walk under police escort, to protest against local black youths who they had charged were harassing white residents. Before the march even got underway, the locals proved the marchers’ point as they began rioting, instead of peacefully protesting, and the supremacists canceled their demonstration in order to prevent injury to the police, themselves and innocent bystanders.

The locals, about 600 strong including mothers and children, not only far outnumbered the marchers, but overwhelmed the police who were unable to control them as they began destroying their own neighborhood by overturning vehicles and vandalizing businesses. For hours after the departure of the white supremacists, the black youths continued their mayhem and destruction.