.jarvisdeberry: The Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' verdict is a win, but that doesn't call for celebration.
Those who gathered in Charlottesville on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017, were there to defend a Robert E. Lee monument in his beloved Virginia. But that monument was carted off in July.
The monument’s removal and the $25 million bill the jury sent the"Unite the Right" organizers Tuesday may give the appearance that the battle ended in quite the Pyrrhic loss for the racists.According to one of the Emanuel church members whom Roof left alive, the self-described white supremacist said:"I have to do it.According to a journal Roof kept between his arrest and his conviction for killing the nine Black churchgoers, his intention was to start a race war.
Given what happened in Charlottesville; given what happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan.
, the white nationalist who coined the term"alt-right," that Lee would soon be gone but Black voting strength would soon be diluted or if you had told them that a jury would validate a gun-toting white kid’s decision to travel to a protest against police brutality and kill a couple of white people, it’s hard to imagine that they would not gladly accept that exchange.
Even now I’m not sure that they see the $25 million judgment as anything other than money well spent.
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