Patriot Prayer’s leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys. Is the future of hate multicultural?
By Arun Gupta
PORTLAND, Oregon—Outfitted in a flak jacket and fighting gloves,
Enrique Tarrio was one of dozens of black, Latino, and Asian men who
marched alongside white supremacists in Portland on Aug. 4.
Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, is president of the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys, who call themselves “Western chauvinists,” and “regularly spout white-nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Last month, prior to the Patriot Prayer rally he attended in Portland, Tarrio was pictured with other far-right activists making a white-power hand sign. Last year, he and other Proud Boys traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Unite the Right rally that ended with a neo-Nazi allegedly killing an anti-fascist protester.
Tarrio and other people of color at the far-right rallies
claim institutional racism no longer exists in America. In their view,
blacks are to blame for any lingering inequality because they are
dependent on welfare, lack strong leadership, and believe Democrats who
tell them “You’re always going to be broke. You’re not going to make it
in society because of institutional racism,” as one mixed-race man put
it.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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