Posted on Nov 26, 2021
Charlottesville sends message to\u00a0the hearts\u00a0of Americans\u00a0from the heart of the old...
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The 2017 violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, has, for the past four years, made the city shorthand for white supremacist hatred and violence. Tuesday, a Charlottesville jury delivered a resounding rebuke to the purveyors of violent racism. It was a welcome message to the hearts and minds of Americans from the heart of the old Confederacy.
The images surrounding that "Unite the Right" rally are hard to forget: the torchlight march across the University of Virginia campus evoking the terror unleashed on Black Americans and their white allies since shortly after the Civil War; worshippers told to slip out the back door of a synagogue to avoid gun-toting protesters chanting Nazi slogans; James Fields driving into a crowd, killing Heather Heyer and leaving others with horrible injuries.
The 2017 violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, has, for the past four years, made the city shorthand for white supremacist hatred and violence. Tuesday, a Charlottesville jury delivered a resounding rebuke to the purveyors of violent racism. It was a welcome message to the hearts and minds of Americans from the heart of the old Confederacy.
The images surrounding that "Unite the Right" rally are hard to forget: the torchlight march across the University of Virginia campus evoking the terror unleashed on Black Americans and their white allies since shortly after the Civil War; worshippers told to slip out the back door of a synagogue to avoid gun-toting protesters chanting Nazi slogans; James Fields driving into a crowd, killing Heather Heyer and leaving others with horrible injuries.
Charlottesville sends message to\u00a0the hearts\u00a0of Americans\u00a0from the heart of the old...
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Charlottesville
Violence
Racism
Terrorism
Civil War
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Like the KKK we can only hope that this verdict will break the white nationalists until another Trump type comes around to bring them out from under their rocks.
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We have gone through so much injustice to get to where we are today. Let us all learn from the mistakes and hatred of our forefathers and let equality and love lead us forward.
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