Nashville Public Library officials have told Nashvilles chapter of Black Lives Matter that meetings that welcome only people of color cant take place inside the citys libraries.
The library didnt cancel anyones meeting, said library spokeswoman Emily Waltenbaugh, referring to a Black Lives Matter meeting for Saturday morning that the organization has now rescheduled for a church instead.
Were a library, she said. Were taxpayer funded. We have to be open to anyone anytime.
According to Joshua Crutchfield, an organizer of the Nashville chapter of Black Lives Matter, the group has a rule: Only black people as well as non-black people of color are allowed to attend the gatherings. That means white people are excluded from attending.
Due to white supremacy in our local government, this weeks BLM General Body Meeting location has changed, a notice posted Friday on the Nashville chapter of Black Lives Matters Facebook page reads. The notice says the groups meetings are open to black and non-black people of color only."
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