Charlottesville

In “The Other Inconvenient Truth”, Charles Blow discusses “soft white supremacy”(Blow) and how it leads to the events such as what happened in Charlottesville. He believes that people are only feeling pity for African-Americans not a sense of equality, and that is what initiates and inspires conflicts of racism to rise. He also states that republicans like Trump “wanted the racists”(Blow), since they have a history of condemning all African-Americans to be less equal than whites. He further…

America’s legal system has yet to serve justice to American citizens. Through Freedom of Speech, our constitution allows citizens to peacefully protest. The peaceful protesters of Charlottesville were stripped of these rights when white supremacists ran over a crowd of protesters. Several cases similar to this violent and hurtful act of hate show that Freedom of Speech is legal but not always accepted/encouraged in political settings. According to Shankar Vandantam, NPR’s social science…

Her conjecture begins with the events that unfolded in Charlottesville. She follows this by explaining the history of torches and fire present in violent moments over centuries and how in today’s society, torches can appear especially threatening and racist because of the symbol’s relation to the Ku Klux Klan and…

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society due to recent happenings. Lately, all we see is tumults, people fighting people. Recently, riots broke out in Charlottesville due to a disagreement of whether or not to take down a confederate statue. The protests were supposed to be amicable, but in America today it seems like nothing can be peacefully resolved. If Paine had seen the riots that had went on in Charlottesville, he himself would disagree with his own claim. If it was only true “that nothing would render us wretched”! …

In my previous reflection, I mentioned how my problem with some previous presidents and the existence of Confederate statues was not only due to slavery alone, but rather the mindset of the people in power who allowed the suffering of innocent people while they were making money and creating their institutions. Chapter five explored this topic greatly and introduced me to what historian Edmund Morgan called the “American Paradox.” I’ve learned about the events leading up to the American…

Another example of fear causing a negative change in society is the events that occurred in Charlottesville. White nationalists caused terror when they hollered vulgar taunts and anti-semitic expressions outside the Beth Israel Synagogue. According to the article “Fear, Resolve and More Security at Charlottesville's Temple”, the temple has been under attack by white nationalists who are against the Jewish religion. “Writing for the website of the Union of Reform Judaism, Beth Israel President…

Many people in our nation are engaged in a heated debate as to whether or not confederate monuments should be taken down or kept in their places. In some states, chaos has risen. A group of people gathered in Charlottesville Virginia,to protest the removal of the General Robert E. Lee statue. Amidst all this chaos a car driven by a Nazi sympathizer plowed into twenty counter protesters killing one and injuring nineteen others. After these events, President Trump blamed both the white…

The article states that african americans and other minorities are being discriminated against and victimized to unnecessary violence. The writer portrayed the situation with fear using facts of what happened in charlottesville, warning us of the beginning of white nationalism. The group stuck in this turmoil is african americans and other minorities while the message is for president trump. The similarities between both articles is being discrimination in groups, this case being the…

Each event comes down to a preconceived bias of a person or group. In Charlottesville, the members of the “Unite the Right” movement, or alt-right, took this bias against people of color to an extreme; they wanted to create a “state that would be racially homogenous” (Hawley). Despite the extremity, the same ideology can be applied…