Manchester, UK 28th March, 2015. Confrontation with Police at the National Front and White Pride Demo in Piccadilly. Arrests were made as Far Right 'White Pride' group gathered in Manchester to stage a demonstration when about 50 members of the group waved flags and marched through Piccadilly Gardens. Anti-fascist campaigners staged a counter-demonstration and police line separated the two sides. Greater Manchester Police said two arrests were made, one for a breach of the peace. The second was also held for a public order offence. Credit: Mar Photographics/Alamy Live News
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White pride is a movement encouraging people to take pride in being white. The slogan is primarily used by white separatist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations. White pride advocates claim that there is a cultural double standard in which only certain ethnic groups are permitted to openly express pride in their heritage, and that white pride is not inherently racist, being roughly analogous to racial positions such as black pride, Asian pride, or non-racial forms such as gay pride. Carol M. Swain and Russell Nieli state that the white pride movement is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States, arguing that over the course of the 1990s, "a new white pride, white protest, and white consciousness movement has developed in America". They identify three contributing factors: an immigrant influx during the 1980s and 1990s, resentment over affirmative action policies, and the growth of the Internet as a tool for the expression and mobilization of grievances. A white pride T-shirt Sociologists Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie L Shanks-Meile state that "White Power! White Pride!" is "a much-used chant of white separatist movement supporters".[7] According to Joseph T. Roy of the Southern Poverty Law Center, white supremacists often circulate material on the Internet and elsewhere that "portrays the groups not as haters, but as simple white pride civic groups concerned with social ills". The slogan "White Pride, World Wide" appears in the logo of Stormfront, a website owned and operated by Don Black, who was formerly a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. The North Georgia White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan describe themselves as "a patriotic, White Christian revival movement dedicated to preserving the maintenance of White Pride and the rights of the White Race".