Neo-Nazis Learned That Not Every Black Man In Florida Is On Board With Their Nonsense

This blog is originally appeared at The Root

A clip shared on social media over the weekend shows a Black individual confronting a Neo-Nazi group in Orlando, Fla.

Trigger Warning: This story contains quotes of racist and homophobic slurs.

Those neo-Nazis just can’t help but spread their racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted, and white supremacist views wherever they go.

But over the weekend, one Black individual who came across them was not having it.

On Saturday, a neo-Nazi group was spotted marching off a highway near a suburb of Orlando, Fla. In videos recorded by residents and journalists, the Nazis, holding swastika flags, can be heard repeatedly shouting “Faggots!” and “White Power!” while also performing the Nazi salute.

More than halfway through the clip, another demonstrator can also be heard shouting, “Vote for Ron DeSantis!”

As a Black man drove past the demonstration, he slowed down to voice his opinion, using a speaker in his car to shout at the neo-Nazis. In the video, when it became clear he was stopping to confront the group, several of the marchers began shouting, “Nigger! Nigger!”

In response, the Black man, driving a Black truck, smiled and shouted, “Why y’all got on masks though?! Why y’all got on masks though?! Why y’all got on masks though?!”

According to Newsweek, the individuals “protesting” are members of the Goyim Defense League (an antisemitic hate group) and the Blood Tribe (a neo-Nazi group).

As more details emerge about the shooter in the tragic Jacksonville incident, and with Newsweek reporting that the Orlando area has seen an increase in far-right protests, it’s clear that members of these hate groups are growing increasingly brazen—masking their faces, but still making their presence known.

Ryan Christopher Palmeter, the individual responsible for fatally shooting three Black people in Jacksonville, Fla. last weekend, used an assault rifle adorned with a swastika and hurled racial slurs at his victims before killing them.

As we’ve seen with other hate crimes, it only takes one dangerous white supremacist to inflict a lifetime of pain on communities they view as outsiders.