Charlottesville

In the podcast, Wilson, Princeton, and the purge Woodrow Wilson is a point of the debate at Princeton University and what his legacy should be remembered as. In the first segment of the podcast. A black woman in the Black Justice League:at Princeton University, explains her debate to the school’s President, Chris Eisgruber. She explains her reasoning for the removal of Wilson's name on one of the school's buildings. As well as, the removal of his statue in the dining hall. She talks about how…

The beginning of his career started as few others do. He didn't actually want to perform and play his songs for people, but rather have other people sing his songs. "Yet after writing his first few songs, including "The Song that Jane Likes" and "Recently", he began to consider starting his own band" (wikipedia.com). There was only one answer to this Matthews explains. "I didn't really have a vision, or a plan," says Matthews, acknowledging that some of his musical sensibility came from…

In Charleston, South Carolina, 22 year old Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and brutality murdered nine people. This heinous crime rocked the nation as news outlets flooded into Charleston. What sent additional shock waves throughout the country was the discovery of a photo featuring Roof with a gun in one hand and a Confederate flag in the other. The revelation of Roof’s beliefs in white supremacy jump-started a movement that forced the nation to…

Chapman opens the article with an analogy to start off the conversation about the recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Soon after, he goes on to connect the said recent events with other events in American history, namely anything having to do with the British King and the British Parliament during the 1800’s. Chapman also states the ideals of Thomas Jefferson and his provision to abolish slavery. Further on he goes to describe how people in these modern times are still somehow stuck…

fired for expressing themselves. I believe that he does not view the kneeling as a sign of disrespect for the country, but he finds it as a disrespect toward himself and everything he stands for. Otherwise, he would have viewed the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville as a symbol…

The article, ”Despite the president’s pandering, white nationalists are still losing”, shows that our president, Donald Trump, . is not really doing anything to help stop these violent rallies that are going around in the world. There are many people who are not against what the president thinks about other ethnicities. White supremacists are saying hateful things to other people and are causing them to get mad. These then end up in violent fights and rallies. As Donald Trump sees this he is not…

The article, "There's no hate speech exception to the First Amendment", was written in 2017 by Joan Vennochi, an American newspaper columnist for the Boston Globe. The newspaper article was published in the Boston Globe, a leading American daily newspaper. In this article, Vennochi defends the idea that the First Amendment protects even the speech we hate to hear. The author establishes her authority to speak on this subject by previously working as a City Hall bureau chief, and also as a State…

explores themes of rights, expressing that “white people have the right to stand up for ourselves,” and if the city takes down the statue he expects his followers to “stand up and raise hell because they f****d with the wrong man.” He accuses Charlottesville of illegal actions by not letting them express themselves and in another video, he recorded himself speaking about the “need to preserve history.” Kessler holds a restorative viewpoint as seen when he says, “we built western civilization,”…

social movement” (Cohen 5). In the current time, the most recent event that sparked notice of American neo-Nazis were the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where many white supremacy groups joined together to march on Charlottesville and “Unite the Right.” Their goal was stated as a protest to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, but it did not take long for the protests to become violent, even killing a woman. Far-right supporters were among those…

Not for Admiration, but for Commemoration: Keeping the Confederate Statues Erect With less than one hundred years since it was established, the United States of America split gravely during the historical Civil War. Over the course of four long years, America witnessed the bloodiest battles fought on American soil. After the war was won by the Union and Reconstruction was in full swing, African Americans were given rights previously unavailable to them due to their status in the American social…