The statement comes two full days after the violence in Charlottesville.For the first time since the violent, white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend, President Donald Trump directly denounced racist crimes on Monday, naming the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis as hate groups.
Source: “Racism Is Evil,” Donald Trump Reluctantly Admits – Mother Jones
“There are two words that need to be said over and over again — white supremacy and terrorism — [and] that is exactly what we saw on display this weekend, and we are not seeing that from the White House.”
Organiser says ‘absolutely’ more rallies to comeAn organiser of Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally, which was originally staged to protest the planned removal of Confederate war hero Robert E Lee’s statue from a park, said supporters of the event would not back down.”Absolutely we are going to have further demonstrations in Charlottesville because our constitutional rights are being denied,” said Jason Kessler, who civil rights groups identified as a white nationalist blogger.Armed militia members in camouflage block counter-protesters.
“It was obvious that he had this fascination with Nazism and a big idolatry of Adolf Hitler,” Mr Weimer said. “He had white supremacist views. He really believed in that stuff.””When you’re a teacher and you see one of your former students do this, it’s a nightmare scenario.”This was something that was growing in him. I admit I failed. I tried my best. But this is definitely a teachable moment and something we need to be vigilant about because this stuff is tearing up our country.”
Source: Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer ‘was standing up for what was right’
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