Unite The Right Analysis

On August 11th, 2017, the Unite the Right rally set up by Jason Kessler to display the Neo Nazis, White nationalists, and racist right wing Americans as more than just an internet joke. Things went downhill during this event when the left clashed with the right, followed by both sides fighting police. Later after a state helicopter crash and a car attack on a counter-protest crowd on the 12th had basically caused the event to cease. Only after it was declared hazardous and unlawful by the Virginia state police. The author of E Pluribus ONE, Sophia A. Nelson, wrote an article critiquing the rally and pointing out its’ flaws, issues, and prejudices. Nelson felt as if she was part of the mass being targeted, because she is a woman of color born in a foreign country. She shows this with many appeals to emotion, making personal connections to her family's past with words and examples of how they were treated. As Nelson writes this article with an outraged tone when she states “But the problem with the definition of “American” is that it almost always seems to be interpreted as “White” - and if some have it their way, it always will.” and with this excerpt anyone can tell that not only as a person of color, she becomes infuriated as to how “equal” this is to everyone in America is seen as white. Although she …show more content…
This explains her view on the slaves of color and giving examples of her heritage that were brought over as slaves and gave the country the most of its’ wealth during that period of time while also denouncing the acts of the White-Nationalists and Neo-Nazis at the Charlottesville Riots. Nelson also establishes a wide variety of emotional connections to those who are originally native to the land, people who are culturally antithetical, and those who are of a similar opinion on how they have to hyphenate to be established as an “American” in today's