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Hail Trump: Nazi Salute and Rights Advocates

hail trump: The Ku Klux Klan plans to mark Trump victory with a parade next month in North Carolina, according to Hamilton Spectator. Civil rights advocates have recoiled, citing an uptick in harassment and incidents of hate crimes affecting African-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Muslims, Latinos, gays, lesbians and other minority groups since the vote. Members of the self-declared alt-right have exulted over the Nov. 8 results with public cries of Hail Trump! and reprises of the Nazi salute. The president-elect has drawn repeated criticism for being slow to offer his condemnation of white supremacists. Further, Trump has named Stephen Bannon, the conservative media provocateur who shaped the final months of Trump campaign, as a White House chief strategist who will work steps from the Oval Office. His strongest denunciation of the movement has not come voluntarily, only when asked, and he occasionally trafficked in retweets of racist social media posts during his campaign. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.