"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
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