Why Did The Charlottesville Riot

If one were to drive down any random road in South Carolina today, they might spot a Confederate Flag hanging proudly from a building or a house or even a national monument. The ones who support the display of this flag say that it is more to do with cultural history than racism, however, the history that this flag represents is what motivated Dylann Roof to kill nine innocent people in a South Carolina church in 2015. In this day and age, how did something like the Charleston church shooting massacre occur? This essay will explain how racism, although not as common as it was in the past, still exists today and how this racism is connected to the story of Dylann Roof. Although certain racist laws, such as Jim

The senseless murder of nine black church members by a self-proclaimed racist who feared America was being taken over by blacks (Robles, 2015), brought the community together. Soon after, images of Dylan Roof waving a Confederate flag surfaced, the conversations in Charleston turned to the lawmakers. For the victims and citizens of South Carolina, seeing the Confederate flag proudly displayed at their Statehouse was painful and

In the article “Why Confederate Monuments Must Fall” by Karen Cox, Cox describes the opposing conflict between the white supremacists and African Americans. The Confederate Monuments were built in a time of extreme racial violence. Karen states that, “As monuments went up, so did the bodies of black men, women, and children during a long rash of lynching.” Therefore, the monuments can cause the African American society to become offended. White supremacist’s make African American’s uncomfortable because they truly believe that they are superior to any other race. This indicates a mere chance that society could regress to when we did believe that it was humane to treat another fellow man in which the way we did the African Americans.

“The government has jurisdiction over when, where, and how people exercise their free speech rights. But, government cannot control content” (ACLU). For instance, when “a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) group from South Carolina, the Loyal White Knights, protested the removal of a statue [Confederate General Robert E. Lee] in Charlottesville, they were issued a permit to peacefully protest” (Difazio). Many Loyal White Knights wore robes resembling wizards and even held high confederate flags. Do they have free speech rights? Yes, but the government made a grave mistake by granting an assembly permit to one of America’s most infamous and oldest hate groups. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1 once said, “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love” (Washington State University). Although the KKK group appeared to have no ill intentions, their means of

In early October, the Mother’s League of Central High and racist white students planned to have a “walk out” of school, to protest integration. Almost 200 kids participated, but some of them had gotten a bad feeling about it when they saw not many people were joining in. The ones who left the school went to a park near the school, where they hung up a black-looking straw dummy. They all took turns beating the dummy, kicking it, stabbing it, and then eventually burning it while other kids cheered. Some boys held Confederate Flags while they burned and beat the black dummy. None of the hostile kids were questioned by the police or in trouble by the school.

The rally was a counter-protest of a gathering of white supremacists, which resulted in a display of physical aggressiveness and violence.

On September 20th, 2016 Kenneth Lamont Scott, a Charlotte, North Carolina resident was shot and killed by members of the Charlotte Police Department. According to the Charlotte Police Department, officers were at Scott’s apartment complex searching for someone unrelated to Scott on an outstanding arrest warrant. Officers observed Scott exit a vehicle in the parking lot carrying a handgun. According to police reports, Scott failed to comply with orders to drop the weapon and was shot and killed by police. During the confrontation, Scott’s wife was present and recorded the encounter on her cell phone. Scott’s wife claimed that he was sitting in his car reading a book and that he

There has been several debates on the causes of the American Civil War. Many have stated that slavery was the primary cause for the Civil War. Some historians have argued that there were other causes of the Civil War. The one thing that all historians agreed upon was the division between the North (known as the Union) and the South (known as the Confederacy) that escalated on the soil of the United States of America (In Stampp, 1965). The battle between the two states is what created the “American Civil War.” The American Civil War started as a result of many years of differences and debates between the Union and the Confederacy. The Southern states, which included the eleven (11) states that were formed by the Confederacy,

One of the most pressing issues affecting america today are the charlottesville riots happening over the taking down of the civil war general statues of Robert E. Lee and many others. Both the ult right and ult left are found protesting in this city trying to protest their views not only the statues taking down. The ult right had a torch lit walk where they expressed their political views of how they hate any other race but white and expressed the white supremacists movement. The ult left was there prosting and expressing their views on gay marriage and transgender rights as well as african american civil rights. On each day on the protesting fights broke out on both sides resulting in many injuries. As well as a member of the ult right ramming

With more than one monument of the brilliant “military tactician” (Brent Moore, 2015), a growing number of Americans, both black and white, call for the removal of the statues in public areas. Recently, the Nathan Bedford Forrest monument was vandalized by the spray painting of the words “Black Lives Matter.” This shows how many Americans do not support the statue because of Forrest’s pro-slavery values, but some southerners still see him as a hero. Time and time again, vandalism’s strike the statue, which was brought to the attention of a chairman of Memphis. He explains, “I think it's very symbolic and I wish that our city and our country can actually start having a conversation about "Black Lives Matter." (Taylor and Suriani, 2015). This shows how some white southerners’ opinions in the South agree that the statute should be

“I remember … teachers in my grade school telling me lies about Robert E. Lee’s supposed heroism and the truth is that Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders caused the deaths of more than a million Americans because they wanted to keep black people enslaved,” said Casar, who spent four years living in Charlottesville as a student at the University of Virginia. “We cannot keep propagating that lie on our street signs.” McGlinchy, A. (2017) A Council member wants to officially rename Robert E. Lee Road. What would it take to do it?. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were confederate white supremacist leaders who believed that segregation and slavery was appropriate and justifiable. The shooting in Charleston, SC and the riots in Charlottesville,

As evidenced by the confederate flag-waving, torch-bearing, Nazi slogan-chanting throng at the base of the Robert E. Lee monument in Virginia this spring—or more importantly by America’s lack of outrage at the protest’s raison d’être—many Americans, or at least a sizeable portion of them, are still laboring under the delusion that Confederacy is a righteous cause to champion. A complicated admixture of unrepentant overt racism, subtle racial & ethnic biases, and America’s failure to clearly and unambiguously create legislation that corresponds with rest of the world’s answer to paradox of tolerance—tolerate everything except intolerance—seem to be the only things keeping scenes like this alive and on the front page of papers and sites nationwide.

The history of the United States has been characterized by brutality of violence based on race. Many historians have neglected most of the episodes of this important national history as it helps people to learn where they have come from and where they are headed to. Race riots are characterized by violence between two or more racial groups and the end result in most cases is death. For a protest to be called a riot, there must be a group of people with a common agenda and may occur between police and the public or between two or more racial groups.

In the article above, it depicts resentment that Americans or so called Nationalists hold onto their past success and in denial of accepting change.They are ultimately afraid of losing power. When President Trump came into office, he gave hope to his supporters that he would M.A.G.A.The writer could have possibly gathered his information from other articles and videos on the current events in VA. This article is specifically for the white supremacists. This article compares to my other article because it talks about how supremacists can be very extreme when they disagree with the opponent. The only difference is that one is more focused on abolishing slavery and Equality and the other one is about removing a historical statue. Nationalists

The black communities all around the world have been overtly attacked. Using the events surrounding the ‘rasism’ issue, the white hate group have blatantly disrespected black people’s freedom of speech, rights, and beliefs. Take the event that happen in Charlottesville, Virginia. In an article structed by Jacey Fortin he explains the horrifying event surrounding the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue. The Charlottesville’s chaos was an eye-opening event for the people in Virginia. This quiet town ended up with one person dead and dozen others injured. This dangerous protest transpired due to the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue. Robert E. Lee was the Confederacy’s top general. The white nationalist come to protest the cities plan to remove this monument. This statue stood in the city since 1924. Over the past few years, residents and city officials felt it was inappropriate. Including the N.A.A.C.P. The residences felt deeply about this matter. The matter supposedly came up as early as