University of Cincinnati students, alumni tell Richard Spencer he's not wanted

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University of Cincinnati students and alumni have a message for white nationalist Richard Spencer: "Go home. You're not wanted here." Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval, a UC College of Law alumnus, said he gathered student groups to shoot a video so they could together address Spencer's impending visit. Spencer helped organize and headline the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where anti-racist protester Heather Heyer was killed. He has advocated repeatedly for the establishment of a white, patriarchal state in the United States of America, arguing that the country "belongs to white men." To be clear, UC has no firm plans for when Spencer might come to its campus to speak. The school doesn't even know if he'll show up. No one at the school invited him, but University President Neville Pinto said UC had to agree to his request: As a state institution, the university can't block him from speaking simply based on his hateful message.

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