Charlottesville, August 12, 2017
On August 12, 2017, a young woman protesting a neo-nazi rally, Heather Heyer, was murdered in a terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. As white supremacist terror is on the rise, as Pres. Trump tells four congresswomen of colour to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came", with support from his base, and calls a majority black district of Baltimore a "rodent-infested mess," the events from two years ago could not be more relevant.
In May, I spoke to an eyewitness of the Charlottesville terrorist attack, the activist and comedian Lee Camp, host of Redacted Tonight on RT.
Lee Camp: Coincidentally, I went to college in Charlottesville. So I know Charlottes-ville quite well. I lived on the main area, the lawn area, the University of Viriginia. And so it has, has you know - Charlottesville has got a place in my heart. Which is kind of strange that when I went there for a, for a protest, to protest against the white supremacists – I don't remember how long, how long ago was it. A year and a half maybe? Coming up a year and a half. And obviously that – you know, he [James Alex Fields Jr.] is a terrorist although, you know, most of our media won't talk about him as a terrorist. They just talk about him as a white supremacist. But you know a terrorist white supremicist drove through the crowd and I was five feet from where he, his car ultimately collided with another car so that he had to reverse and leave the area. And it was a horrible scene to see, it was a horrible scene to witness and to be near and definitely causes PTSD to be in the middle of something like that. It is very similar to a bomb going off in that - ya, only one person died, but there were dozens and dozens who had broken limbs and other injuries. So – definitely a horrible thing to see. And you, you, you realise how extreme this stuff is. It often seems like you, you are separate from it. You know. It's just a bunch of people marching, it's not that dangerous or not that extreme. But you know then all of a sudden someone is murdered and you realise how screwed up this system is and how extreme people have become and how they are willing to kill, to, to stand for hate and to stand for terrorism, really. And then we have a president who basically endorses it by saying there is good people on both sides. That, that is absolutely not the truth.
Photo: "Alt-right members preparing to enter Emancipation Park holding Nazi, Confederate, and Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flags."
Source: Anthony Crider