A group of white supremacists barged into a racial justice training course in south Florida on Saturday, frightening organizers and attendees -- who believed they were about to get shot in a Dylann Roof-style assault.
On Saturday, social justice educator and activist Lutze Segu hosted a racial justice seminar in Wilton Manors, FL. After sending an operative to "case" the room, protesters from the white nationalist group "Identity Europa" barged into the seminar bearing a banner that said, "NO REGRET. We apologize for nothing."
The banner was an apparent protest of Segu's subject matter, which urges people of all races to come together to fight the doctrine of white supremacy.
"White supremacy harms all people, including white people," said the seminar's event page. "White supremacy robs us all of genuine human connections. White supremacy is destroying the earth and its inhabitants. White supremacy is polluting our water supply, our air, denying climate change, and suppressing the voices of the most marginalized."
Hate attacks are up sharply in the U.S. since the election of President Donald Trump. In the two years since Dylann Roof killed nine black parishioners in a Charleston, SC church, the SPLC said that attacks have exploded against people of color, Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQ people and Jews.
Raw Story reached out to Segu for comment, but has yet to hear back.
On Twitter, Segu (@FeministGriote) documented the fear she and attendees felt when the right-wing protesters burst into the room.
So today white nationalist disrupted a racial justice training that I was facilitating https://t.co/8jkHrlxwUn— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498347869.0
I really thought they were going to gun us down— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498347910.0
White supremacy is real in these streets!— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498347935.0
I am ok'ish. As ok that one can be— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498347986.0
One guy came in earlier and cased out the joint— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348014.0
& came later around lunch time with his crew— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348032.0
They achieved their goal of putting fear in me and us— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348129.0
But still I rise— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348162.0
I am NOT out here trying to be a martyr— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348186.0
I just want white liberals & progressives to do the work!— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348216.0
But today I was reminded in a real ass way that white supremacy can & will kill me— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348275.0
Shit is REAL— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348286.0
I was in Wilton Manors a gay/white/male/cis oasis in Broward county— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348354.0
Their is real danger in being a Black person who speaks truth to power— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348376.0
Today white supremacy did a number on me— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348418.0
I am still processing the event and don't have a the words, but do know that this is us— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348448.0
white nationals are emboldened— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348463.0
Yo, I really thought they were going to open fire on us. I don't wish that feeling on anyone— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348498.0
sigh...— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348509.0
What angers me the most is that the door said private event & that the space wasn't open to the public.— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348840.0
but because white folks don't see white folks as a threat he was let in to use the restroom— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348890.0
& soon as he came in I felt uneasy— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348906.0
he looked super suspicious— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348918.0
come to find out he was casing the joint— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348934.0
that's the part that really makes me mad— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498348975.0
Thank you for the kind words— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498349054.0
& fuck the silence of those who enable white supremacy— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498349091.0
going to log off now— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498349099.0
stay safe folks— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498349105.0
None of us are free until all of us are free!✊🏾💚— Sister Outsider (@Sister Outsider) 1498349261.0