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Tennessee woman loses her job in health sector after being filmed yelling ‘white lives are better’ at Black Lives Matter protesters

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;4f4040&semi;"><strong>White woman &&num;8220&semi;yells &&num;8216&semi;white lives are better&&num;8217&semi; and calls a Black Lives Matter protester a &&num;8216&semi;black twisted crazy person&&num;8217&semi; at a BLM rally in Tennessee&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;4f4040&semi;"><strong>Sonya Holt lost her job after being filmed telling  a teen BLM activist  &&num;8216&semi;You are just a poor little black girl with a messed up mind&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;4f4040&semi;"><strong>Holt was filmed jeering at demonstrators during a rally in Elizabethton&comma; yelling &&num;8216&semi;White lives matter&comma; white lives are better&&num;8217&semi; at Black Lives Matter protesters<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;4f4040&semi;"><strong>You are a &&num;8216&semi;black twisted crazy person&&num;8217&semi; she told the young black activist who urged other counter-protesters to allow Holt have her say<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;4f4040&semi;"><strong>It is also alleged that Holt made a series of homophobic slurs and told protesters they would &&num;8216&semi;burn in hell&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;4f4040&semi;"><strong>It has been confirmed that she is no longer employed at the Keith Family Vision Clinic in Johnson City <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"lY3ORyvW0IM" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;lY3ORyvW0IM" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;lY3ORyvW0IM&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;lY3ORyvW0IM&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span>&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;White woman yells &&num;8216&semi;white lives are better&&num;8217&semi; and calls a Black Lives Matter protester a &&num;8216&semi;black twisted crazy person&&num;8217&semi; at a BLM rally in Tennessee&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-350331" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;Sonya-Holt-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sonya Holt 1" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"808" &sol;>Sonya Holt &lbrack;photo&rsqb; screams &&num;8216&semi;white lives are better&&num;8217&semi; at Black Lives Matter rally &&num;8211&semi; Holt&comma; reportedly was subsequently fired by her employer &&num;8211&semi; the Keith Family Vision Clinic in Johnson City&comma; TN &&num;8216&semi;You are just a poor little black girl with a messed up mind&comma;&&num;8217&semi; an obviously incensed Holt is overheard telling the woman filming her&period; The woman had asked supremacist protesters holding Holt back to &&num;8216&semi;let her go&period; let her say whatever she wanted to say&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>A woman has been fired from her job after she proudly brandished her white supremacist bonafides in a video that has gone viral&period; She is clearly heard  yelling racial slurs at Black Lives Matter protesters attending a rally in Elizabethton&comma; a small historic college town in the north eastern part of Tennessee&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The woman seen venting in the video&comma; Sonya Holt&comma; is no longer an employee at the Keith Family Vision Clinic in Johnson City&comma; her ex-bosses have confirmed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Holt was stripped of her job after video footage went viral over the weekend that shows her repeatedly chanting&colon; &&num;8216&semi;White lives matter&comma; white lives are better&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She can also be heard saying&colon; &&num;8216&semi;White lives matter you black crazy twisted person&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<h6><strong> <img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-350341" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;Sonya-Holt-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sonya Holt 4" width&equals;"754" height&equals;"690" &sol;>&&num;8216&semi;You are just a poor little black girl with a messed up mind&comma;&&num;8217&semi; an obviously incensed Holt is overheard telling the woman filming her&period; The woman had asked supremacist protesters holding Holt back to &&num;8216&semi;let her go&period; let her say whatever she wanted to say&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div>&&num;8216&semi;You are just a poor little black girl with a messed up mind&comma;&&num;8217&semi; an obviously incensed Holt is overheard telling the black teen who was filming her&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The standing man next to Holt adds &&num;8216&semi;get the f&ast;&ast;k out of our way&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The young woman had asked the other counter-protesters holding Holt back to &&num;8216&semi;let her go&period; Let her say whatever she wanted to say&comma; &&num;8216&semi; <span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi; font-size&colon; 1rem&semi;">Sierra Gilmer told the people  beside Holt&period; Demonstrators for the New Panther Initiative&comma; a Black Lives Matter group&comma; had gathered at Covered Bright Park in Elizabethton to protest against racial inequality and police brutality over the weekend&period;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-350332" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;Sonya-Holt-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sonya Holt 2" width&equals;"757" height&equals;"805" &sol;>Holt was filmed screaming &&num;8216&semi;White lives matter&comma; white lives are better&&num;8217&semi; at BLM protesters during the rally   in Elizabethton&comma; TN<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi; font-size&colon; 1rem&semi;">But counter-protesters&comma; including Holt&comma; flocked to the scene to jeer at demonstrators as they entered the park&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi; font-size&colon; 1rem&semi;">It is also alleged that Holt made a series of homophobic slurs and told protesters they would &&num;8216&semi;burn in hell&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At some point the counter-protesters start chanting USA&excl; USA&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi; font-size&colon; 1rem&semi;">Teenager and activist Sierra Gilmer&comma; who shot the footage&comma; said she wasn&&num;8217&semi;t surprised at Holt&&num;8217&semi;s behavior&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi; font-size&colon; 1rem&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;The biggest thing to take away from this is just to realize that racism is in your community however much you think it might not be&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she told News WCYB5&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi; font-size&colon; 1rem&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;There are a lot of people that reached out to me saying that they didn&&num;8217&semi;t realize that this was happening in Elizabethton and they didn&&num;8217&semi;t realize there were people there like that&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-350333" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;Sonya-Holt-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sonya Holt 3" width&equals;"751" height&equals;"798" &sol;> The face of hate or the rage of long-standing entitlement&quest; It is also alleged that Holt made a series of homophobic slurs and told protesters they would &&num;8216&semi;burn in hell&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi; font-size&colon; 1rem&semi;">The rally is just one of the hundreds held across the globe in the wake of the death of George Floyd&comma; an unarmed 46-year-old black man who was killed when three police officers knelt on his body&comma; one of them on his neck&comma; for nearly nine minutes as he pled for his life before losing consciousness and expiring&period; The mind-numbing spectacle that occurred in Minneapolis in May has created an awareness of inequities in policing in the country and the strong undercurrents of barely hidden racial tensions in society&period;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi; font-size&colon; 1rem&semi;">Surprisingly despite the jeers filmed at the BLM rally in Elizabethton&comma; demonstrators tried to engage in dialogue with counter-protesters throughout the rally&comma; which lasted around three hours&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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