heres info on it from :
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGB...GBP4AJEE6D.html
Warring with words
BY MEREDITH FISCHER AND PAIGE AKIN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERS Sep 22, 2002
Billy Brown, who was handing out leaflets for the World Church of the Creator outside the Chester Library, is led away from a crowd of protesters by a Chesterfield County police officer.
(Dean Hoffmeyer)
Their words collided.
"RAHOWA" - Racial Holy War - the white supremacists chanted.
"Jesus!" the protesters shouted.
The voices grew louder and louder inside the Chester Library meeting room, where blacks packed seats intended for whites who hate them. John King, Virginia leader of the World Church of the Creator, stood at a lectern condemning Jews and blacks. Whites are the superior race, he told them.
"There is no evidence of God or gods," he said.
One man turned his back on King.
"I refuse to look at him," said the black man, who preferred not to give his name. "I am a Christian person and I do not believe in what he is saying. Chesterfield County never should have allowed him to come here."
Some of the others who filled the room's 60 chairs walked out of last night's gathering.
"I definitely wasted my time coming out here," said Brenda Berger, who is black.
Barbara Butler, also black, brought her daughter and a niece to hear King's message.
"I don't like him in our community. He is disgusting," she said. "But I wanted them to listen."
Her 13-year-old daughter, Jessica Butler, shook her head.
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"I feel angry," she said. "They had no right to be here."
Inside and outside the library, protesters far outnumbered King's supporters. Despite the small number of followers, King vowed to return, then left by a side door.
He smiled at the crowd. They booed him. He gave a salute that, to some, resembled a Nazi gesture.
Hundreds of protesters, carrying signs opposing the white-supremacist group inside, joined together behind a police barricade during King's two-hour meeting. They formed a large circle, inviting local clergy into the middle to lead them in prayer.
More than 100 state and county police surrounded the library. Many wore riot gear and carried tear gas. A state police helicopter flew overhead. Other officers watched the crowd from atop the building.
There were no arrests during the event, but an angry group of protesters surrounded one representative from the World Church of the Creator who came from North Carolina to recruit members.
"We want to rid this country of all nonwhites," Billy Brown said. "If it takes violence, so be it."
The mob around Brown followed him across the lawn as he tried to break away. One protester spat on his face. He left with a dozen police escorts before the meeting was over.
"It's obvious that he's ignorant and trying to recruit people for racial termination," said Aaron Tenenbaum, a protester from Virginia Commonwealth University who taunted Brown. "We need to mobilize against people like him."
The meeting was nothing like the protesters had expected. It was also nothing like King had hoped.
"I am here to speak to the white people. This is a white religion," he said.
Bishop Gerald O. Glenn, pastor of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church, sat in the back of the library.
"It they weren't so crazy, it would be funny," he said.
Ron Doggett, a member of European-American Unity and Rights Organization, sat at the front of the room.
"I am here to stand up for the First Amendment, and I am concerned out of an overall concern for white Americans," he said.
A line for the meeting's 60 seats started at about 2 p.m. People were allowed entry on a first-come basis. More than 80 percent of those who filed in were black.
Glenn arrived after 60 people had already gotten in line. County officials initially said he would not be able to go in, but four members of his congregation voluntarily gave up their spots for Glenn and three others with him.
Everyone entering the room was searched by police.
Pastor Curtis L. Jackson, who attended with Glenn, said he was there to stand up for his community.
"My ancestors stood up in the face of slavery," Jackson said. "I've got to stand up now."
Glenn received a round of applause from the protesters after the meeting. "The philosophy and the ideology of this group will not take root in Chesterfield County," Glenn said.
Lane B. Ramsey, county administrator, issued a statement just after the meeting.
"We are delighted with the behavior of the protesters," he said. "Going into this, we said a success would be no injuries and no arrests . . . and that's what happened."
Earlier last week, Ramsey had urged people to stay away from the library, fearing that violence could ensue.
The county Board of Supervisors met last Wednesday and decided they could not legally block King from holding his meeting, despite community concerns. Several board members spoke out against the World Church of the Creator, which is based in Peoria, Ill., and calls itself the fastest-growing white-supremacist group in the country. It claims about 30 members in Virginia.
Supervisor Edward B. Barber went against Ramsey's advice and attended the protest. He hugged Glenn after the meeting.
"We have taken a stand," Glenn said, "to show that Chesterfield is not a bastion of racism."
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I was there from what I saw there was just as much whites protesting as blacks JFYO.
