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video belowStop Telling Me What to Do!: MAGA Supporter Crashes Out at Black Author Book Talk After Getting the Boot for Spewing Racist Insults
On May 21, Black author Dr. LaTonya Rease Miles appeared at a book talk to promote her new memoir, Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story. Attendees gathered at the quaint James M. Duncan Branch Library in Alexandria, Virginia, hoping to get their books signed and to hear Miles inspiring story of being the first in her family to attend and graduate from a four-year university.
Instead, they got an earful from a belligerent Trump supporter who crashed the reading.
This is not Nazi Germany! I dont need to do anything. Stop telling me what to do, shouted the older white man.
According to the caption of the now viral video, he infiltrated what appears to have been the book talk from March 17 and began heckling the author and harassing her with racist rants. Decked out in a fiery red Make America Great Again t-shirt, the man refused to calm down or lower his voice, and likened library security to Nazi Germany, communist China, and the f-cking USSR when they told him to shush.
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https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/10/08/maga-supporter-crashes-out-at-black-author/
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man wears his maga shirt and maga attitude to a Black book signing (Original Post)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Thursday
OP
Unfortunately, people of color have seen such displays of ignorance and insults by racists too many times.
John1956PA
Thursday
#5
This guy needs one of those pot smoke gas masks filled with some immobilizing ganga therapy.
NBachers
Thursday
#3
Agreed. GOP has control of WH, house, senate, judiciary and he still needs to go to a book signing event
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Thursday
#11
Klarkashton
(4,274 posts)1. Trump voter.
Skittles
(168,011 posts)4. the mentality of anyone who sees value in Donald Fucking Trump

AZJonnie
(1,837 posts)2. Had I been there, no telling what might've happened, I'll leave it at that.
I'm impressed everyone there kept their cool like they did.
What a fucking DICK.
John1956PA
(4,531 posts)5. Unfortunately, people of color have seen such displays of ignorance and insults by racists too many times.
They know not to jump at the bait, which would result in them getting accused of starting a confrontation.
AZJonnie
(1,837 posts)6. Oh, yeah no I totally get that

And that is part of why I'd have felt compelled to leverage my white privilege against his in that scenario.
NBachers
(18,946 posts)3. This guy needs one of those pot smoke gas masks filled with some immobilizing ganga therapy.
rictofen
(256 posts)7. "GOD IS A BLACK MAN!" sure has an interesting feed though
Whew boy.
Calling a child having a public meltdown a "white demon seed" with a future of "meth use whoring" was a good one, but my personal favorite? He blames local Democratic politicians for the ICE raid situation, because they "packed" migrants and "illegals" into black communities.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,631 posts)10. Yeah..source is a bigot too. I used his link for the video only
Torchlight
(5,845 posts)8. 2025 has turned in the year of the White Martyr for the Cause
What cause? Well... 'cause they're idiots.
Clouds Passing
(6,104 posts)9. These kind of people are emotional goners.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,631 posts)11. Agreed. GOP has control of WH, house, senate, judiciary and he still needs to go to a book signing event
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