The Neo-Nazi Protest: A Short Story

It was a crisp October morning when I found out the Neo-Nazi protest. For a ten years old I had no idea what a protest really meant or what Neo-Nazis were. In my head, I thought that this was some type of hippie thing I seen on television at the time. Boy was I wrong. Towards the afternoon, my cousins and I went out to play when we heard some of the older teens talking about what was going on. As we sat on the old green wooden porch, I overheard one of the teens say that the KKK was coming and they were going to go to their rally to kick them out.
Being a naïve child, I thought that the KKK stopped in the sixties. I remember right after hearing what he said I immediately ran into my great grandmother’s house to ask her what it meant. My grandmother Habit was a very old wise woman always sitting in her chair watching TV. Running into the house I asked, panting “What is the KKK Habit? Why are they coming here?” She wasn’t facing me, her eyes dosing off while watching Bonanza so I tapped her on her shoulder and asked her again. She finally woke up and answer me “Rhianna why do you need to know?” She murmured something under her breath before telling me. She told me that the KKK was a group of white people that hated all people that are not white and they came here
The mayor knew why they were coming to the city The Neo-Nazis came to the city to protest gang violence and they planned to protest in an area with heavy gang activity, knowing that they can make people rowdy coming there. Knowing that the mayor and city officials could have made them move the protest to an area downtown where both sides could not cause any trouble. It wasn’t the Neo-Nazis that cause the riot, it wasn’t the neighborhood that cause the riot, but the mayor of Toledo that cause it. His job as mayor is to do what is best for the city and he did not do