That morning, he put on a black suit, tie, durag, and mask, evoking the image of a SoCal Malcolm X. Johnson went ahead with his counterprotest. He worried that white supremacists would notice that his position was weakening and feel emboldened. After Cullors’s statement, Johnson says, organizations like the NAACP began to pull their support. “To be a grassroots organizer trying to stop a freaking KKK rally in a city - why would you try to stop that?” he asks. Still, Johnson was taken aback that the Global Network would disavow his plans. “For that reason, we are not supporting or affiliated with any counterprotests you may hear about being organized in Huntington Beach (or anywhere else, at any time).”Įven though Johnson’s group has “Black Lives Matter” in its name, it is not an officially recognized chapter of the larger organization, and it receives no logistical or financial support. “We want to make it abundantly clear that Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and the Black Lives Matter Grassroots do not support counterprotesting,” the statement said, implying that such action might be dangerous. Two days later, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the organization that placed itself at the front of the movement for racial justice, issued a statement of its own via its co-founder and executive director, Patrisse Cullors. He blasted out a press release: “White supremacy is not welcome here and we will do everything possible to prevent this rally and defend our community from racist terrorism.” Johnson, who moved to Huntington Beach at 26 and worked temporary gigs as a security guard, began mobilizing a counterprotest to the “White Lives Matter” event. He went to jail for marching then, and he wasn’t going to let a racist rally occur in his city unchecked. He and his fellow protesters were tear-gassed and shot with rubber bullets. He started Black Lives Matter Huntington Beach after the murder of George Floyd. Klansmen patrolled Anaheim in white hoods and robes during the 1920s in 1993, a Los Angeles Times headline asked if Huntington Beach was the “skinhead capital of the country.” Today, fewer than 2 percent of its residents identify as Black. Southern California’s Orange County has a century-long history of white supremacism. “ Our Ancestors settled the land, established the country, made the laws - we’re the majority, why shouldn’t we control our destiny?” Word began to circulate on social media that there would be a “White Lives Matter” rally in front of the Huntington Beach Pier on April 11 at 1 p.m. In early April 2021, Ziploc bags filled with rocks and Ku Klux Klan flyers were thrown on lawns and dropped on street corners around Huntington Beach, California. All Rights Reserved.Ayo Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors in Cleveland in 2015. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Top 10 Mutual Funds Holding New York Times Co Mutual fund Top 10 Owners of New York Times Co Stockholder PARSIFAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP Bought 1.0 Million shares of New York Times Co MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC Bought 1.8 Million shares of New York Times Co VALUEACT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP Bought 2.0 Million shares of New York Times Co Transactions Latest Institutional Activity
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