A white nationalist leader said today he hasn’t given up on holding a weekend conference in Charlotte despite what he called “contemptible” efforts to dissuade local hotels from hosting it.

Surrounded by more police than protesters, Jared Taylor blasted the Sheraton Charlotte Airport hotel as well as two city council members he said helped persuade the hotel to cancel the planned weekend gathering.

Taylor is editor of American Renaissance, a Virginia-based magazine of “racial-realist thought.” The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such groups, says the Renaissance conferences attract “racist ‘intellectuals’… Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists.”

Read more at Charlotte Observer.com.

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