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Opinion: We can’t denounce white supremacy only when it surfaces

Staff file photo / About two dozen members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement group hold a rally on Saturday, April 26, 2014, on the lawn of the Hamilton County Courthouse in Chattanooga.
Staff file photo / About two dozen members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement group hold a rally on Saturday, April 26, 2014, on the lawn of the Hamilton County Courthouse in Chattanooga. Staff file photo / About two dozen members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement group hold a rally on Saturday, April 26, 2014, on the lawn of the Hamilton County Courthouse in Chattanooga.

When white supremacy shows its ugly head, everyone is quick to denounce it. Rightfully so.

On Saturday, a group of Nazis walked from Nashville’s Lower Broadway to the state Capitol while waving flags bearing swastika symbols.

State Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, recorded the group’s journey.

“Immediately the reaction of myself and the chief of staff was to try and rush to the parking garage and hide — but then we remembered the way to write wrongs is not to hide but to shine the light of truth upon them,” Jones explained to News Channel 5 in Nashville. “So we recorded them to bear witness to what was going on here.”

This group is known as the Blood Tribe. The neo-Nazi group has marched in several other cities to protest everything from LGBTQ rights to replacement theory.