'White Lives Matter' to Be Declared a Hate Group by SPLC

 

by Elisha Fieldstadt

"White Lives Matter" will soon be added to a list of U.S. hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the watchdog group announced Tuesday.

The SPLC contends that White Lives Matter is frequently used by white supremacists as a counter-slogan to "Black Lives Matter," and the movement has been organized into a separate white nationalist group.

White Lives Matter will officially join the list of 892 other hate groups in the country when it gets its annual update in February, said Heidi Beirich, the Intelligence Project director at the SPLC. 

The group will also appear on the SPLC's Hate Map, which functions as a device to alert the public and law enforcement where "organizations spewing racism and hate are located," Beirich told NBC News.

White Lives Matter is headquartered in Tennessee, but could also be featured in other places on the map after the SPLC does more research on the group and there whereabouts of its members, Beirich said. 

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Source: NBC News