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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRacist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group's Campaign of Menace
A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham for ProPublica
Posted with permission from ProPublica
It was about 10 a.m. on Aug. 12 when the melee erupted just north of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.
About two dozen white supremacists many equipped with helmets and wooden shields were battling with a handful of counter-protesters, most of them African American. One white man dove into the violence with particular zeal. Using his fists and feet, the man attacked one person after another.
The street fighter was in Virginia on that August morning for the Unite the Right rally, the largest public gathering of white supremacists in a generation, a chaotic and bloody event that would culminate, a few hours later, in the killing of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who was there to protest the racist rally.
The violence in Charlottesville became national news. President Donald Trumps response to it he asserted there were some very fine people on both sides of the events that day set off a wave of condemnations, from his allies as well as his critics.
But for many Americans, conservatives as well as liberals, there was shock and confusion at the sight of bands of white men bearing torches, chanting racist slogans and embracing the heroes of the Confederacy: Who were they? What are their numbers and aims?
There is, of course, no single answer. Some who were there that weekend in Charlottesville are hardened racists involved with long-running organizations like the League of the South. Many are fresh converts to white supremacist organizing, young people attracted to nativist and anti-Muslim ideas circulated on social media by leaders of the so-called alt-right, the newest branch of the white power movement. Some are paranoid characters thrilled to traffic in the symbols and coded language of vast global conspiracy theories. Others are sophisticated provocateurs who see the current political moment as a chance to push a white agenda, with angry positions on immigration, diversity and economic isolationism.
ProPublica spent weeks examining one distinctive group at the center of the violence in Charlottesville: an organization called the Rise Above Movement, one of whose members was the white man dispensing beatings near Emancipation Park Aug. 12.
https://www.propublica.org/article/white-hate-group-campaign-of-menace-rise-above-movement
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Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group's Campaign of Menace (Original Post)
turbinetree
Oct 2017
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Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)1. Thanks for the info, tt. Rec, nt.
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)3. Your welcome
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)4. Pro Publica is doing some impressive work.
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)9. Yes they are
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)2. "fine people"
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)5. Kick.
Initech
(100,097 posts)6. Hey these are Trump's people!
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)7. K&R. Very god read. Thanks for posting it. n/t
EarthFirst
(2,901 posts)8. In my hometown friends of ours are being harassed
By ProudBoys & Vanguard.
Their neighborhood has been regularly posted with their propaganda on everything.
Several affluent east side neighborhoods are being targeted in retaliation to progressive thoughtfulness calling this out.
It's disgustingly everywhere right now.
You stop this in only one way; you suppress it by any means necessary before it gets a foothold in YOUR community.