Friday, August 18, 2017

"Ethnocentrism" in the News

Heim, Joe. "Recounting a Day of Rage, Hate, Violence and Death." The                Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2017. Accessed 17 Aug. 2017.

In August, a group of white nationalists arrived in Charlottesville, VA to rally and protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Violence then broke out between the Unite the Rally protesters and a group of 30 U-Va students, united to march against the supremacists by circling the statue. The next day, the original date of the rally, things quickly became violent when armed nationalists and militia groups and anti-fascists both gathered. Law enforcement eventually issued an order to disperse the rally and it seemingly diffused the violence but not the tensions. That afternoon, a man intentionally drove his car at a group of people, killing one of them and injuring 19, and two people died in a police helicopter crash. By Saturday evening, a group of people placed flowers on the scene of the car crash as a vigil for those who died, were injured and for the tragedy of the situation motivated by racism.


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