This is all over a statue, say the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. He remains there, despite a close City Council vote in April to sell and remove the statue and rechristen Lee Park as Emancipation Park. Like the white nationalists in Charlottesville, Confederate memorials terrorize people of color and others, such as Heyer, who threaten the work of white supremacy. Less than two weeks later, Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post arguing that the Lee statue should remain. They didn’t want to simply guard the bronzed form of Robert E. Lee, a fellow white supremacist.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 14, 2017 19:18 UTC