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GREENSBORO – The National Socialist Movement held a meeting in Greensboro Saturday. Leaders from the Detroit-based white separatist group did not reveal the location of the meeting, but residents still protested the group’s presence in the Triad.

A number of people gathered at Hamburger Square in Greensboro. Also, members of the city’s religious community encouraged people to wear multicolored ribbons in protest as a way to celebrate the city’s diversity.

“This kind of thing doesn’t belong here,” Greensboro resident Shelly Segal said. “This kind of ignorance and hate doesn’t belong in Greensboro.

The head of the NSM says the group didn’t plan a public presence and chose to hold a private meeting at an undisclosed location.

“This plan for Greensboro at this time, the Greensboro area, is an internal, private meeting,” Jeff Schoep, of the National Socialist Movement, said. “We have no plans at this time of any demonstrations or things like that.”

Group leaders say the visit doesn’t have anything to do with the upcoming 30th anniversary of an anti-Klan march in Greensboro that led to a fight, leaving five people dead.

“That really doesn’t have any specific relevance to us,” Schoep said. “We’re a legal, political organization, and it is really not directly tied in with our efforts.”

Police presence in downtown Greensboro was high Saturday in response to the meeting and the protest.