As I was researching for my paper I came across this news article. On Saturday, April 17, a "white supremacy group" rallied against immigration reforms while using anti-Semitic words. They were waving around American flags with swastikas. But several people counter-protested against this rally, and eventually turned to a violent point.
What baffles me is the fact that there are people who actually still follow what Hitler believed in. It would lessen my worry if it were in Europe, but in the United States? A land where people were against Nazis. To say that the "white supremacists" were all German would be a stereotype. I didn't really think of Germans when I saw this. But when I told my father about it, all he thought of at first was Germans. I guess since Nazism is closely related to Germany back in World War II my dad would assume that they're German. But I know that many Germans were against the Nazis as well.
What kind of relaxed me was that there weren't many "white supremacists." When the counter-protesters began throwing things at them, they left. What I think is that these "white supremacists" are afraid that the American race will not be "pure." This country has a great history with immigrants. I will say that when I looked at the city this riot was in took me by surprise. It was in Los Angeles, which probably has one of the most heavily populated immigrants. It kind of made me laugh since Los Angeles is in Spanish, and they were protesting against immigrants. But we've come to relate immigrant with Mexicans and Central Americans, because that's what we mainly see. I'm pretty sure that in a couple of decades a new group of people will be targeted with immigration laws.
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