MURFREESBORO, Tenn.- White Nationalist organizations announced a "White Lives Matter" protest to be held on Saturday, October 28th. The event was scheduled to start in Shelbyville, Tennessee. at 9 a.m., then move to the nearby city of Murfreesboro around 1 p.m.

 

Members of the National Socialist Movement, Traditionalist Worker Party, League of the South, and Vanguard America organized the protest on the basis of changing demographics taking in Tennessee, including the resettlement of refugees, and to call attention to the recent fatal church shooting near Nashville. 

 

To avoid meeting the same massive opposition Charlottesville 

encountered, organizers chose to hold the event in the Middle Tennessee area, where they believed there would be a more like minded population.

 

Yet on the chilly October morning in Shelbyville, the "White Lives Matter" protesters soon realized that was not the case when they were tremendously outnumbered by counter protesters.

 

By the early afternoon, diverse groups of the Murfreesboro comminity gathered in the town square to express their opposition to the "White Live Matter" protest. Around 1,000 local protesters showed up to demonstrate that intolerance and hate was not welcome in the growing Southern town.

 

By 3pm, Hunter Wallace, a member of the League of the South, announced disappointment in their protester turn out and stated the official cancelation of their Murfreesboro meeting. The crowd cheered joyously, many chanting "love won, hate lost".