The Charlottesville White Supremacists Didn’t Wear Hoods – The Atlantic
“The images we saw in Charlottesville today and yesterday convey an entirely different sort of threat. They draw their menace not from what is there—mostly, young white men in polos and T-shirts goofily brandishing tiki torches—but from what isn’t: the masks, the hoods, the secrecy that could at least imply a sort of shame. We used to whisper these thoughts, the new white supremacists suggest. But now we can say them out loud. The “Unite the Right” rally wasn’t intended to be a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march.”
Ku Klux Klan members march in cemetery funeral rites in Chesapeake, Virginia, in 1966.AP The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march. In July 2017, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society invited members of the press to a private conference to discuss a…
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