America Is Better Than That – Not Really!

White nationalists organized the much-talked-about “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville, Virginia for two days in August, 2017. The rally had Tiki torches and marched in the city shouting slogans such as, “Jews will not replace us”, “White Power” and gave Nazi salutes to each other. They finally killed a local protester, Heather Heyer, and injured 19 others. The killer was a 20-year-old drifter and drove some 700 miles to cause the mayhem. Donald Trump was a new President in those days but he had his racist bona fides well confirmed. It took him two days and prodding by many people to come out and say, “There are bad people on both sid…