YORK, Pa. -- Several dozen police officers in riot gear kept demonstrators at bay on Saturday as white supremacists gathered to bring their message of racial segregation to a city still feeling the lingering effects of deadly race riots more than 30 years ago.
Hundreds of demonstrators shouted outside as Matthew Hale, the leader of the white supremacist group World Church of the Creator, spoke to about 70 people inside a library.
"We seek the advancement of white people, our people without any apologies, any compromise, any groveling before anybody," Hale said.
Marion Kinard, 31, of York, said he attended the meeting with his two sons, 4 and 6, to teach them about racism.
"I want my children to know that they're teaching it to their children," he said.
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