Huckleberries: Racist activity in Whitefish flashes back to Aryans in CdA

The hubbub caused by white supremacist plans to march in Whitefish, Montana, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day reminds this columnist of the 1999 parade led by racist Richard Butler in Coeur d’Alene. It was the second of three consecutive annual Aryan Nations parades in downtown Coeur d’Alene before Butler was sued into bankruptcy. On July 10, 1999, the Aryan Nations founder was 82 and still spewing hate when he led about 20 marchers down Sherman Avenue, including a baby in a stroller and her 6-year-old sister. The streets were lined with anti-fascists, many from out-of-town, who ridiculed the Dirty Two Dozen Minus Four – and beseeched the 6-year-old girl to leave her Aryan parents. It was nuts/ DFO, Thursday Huckleberries column. More here. (Link contains a gallery of 11 photos from 1999 neo-Nazi parade)