charlottesville
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Tiki Brand Denounces Use of Its Torches During White Supremacist Rally
Tiki Brand is probably used to being associated with pleasant things like barbecues (or cookouts) on a hot summer day, or just a fancy way to spruce up your lawn decoration. That’s probably why the brand, which is owned by Lamplight Farms Inc., swiftly denounced the use of its products by white supremacists this past…
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#NoConfederate: Charlottesville Proves That Confederate Is Already Real, so HBO, Are You Still Fucking Serious With This?
For those of you just tuning in, what was supposed to be a protest against the removal of Confederate monuments in the city of Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday turned into a full-blown Ku Klux Klan, “alt-right,” neo-Nazi revival meeting complete with burning torches, black people being attacked and beaten by racist whites, and an innocent…
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Watch ‘Unite the Right’ Rally Organizer Jason Kessler Run for His Life
I guess organizing a gathering of hateful bigots where a person was murdered is a … bad thing? Huh? Who knew! If the guy behind the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. (who, for some fool reason, attempted to hold a press conference Sunday), didn’t know, the crowd of “indict for murder!” protesters who…
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Are These Some of the White Supremacists Who Assaulted Deandre Harris in Charlottesville, Va.?
Updated Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, 7:12 p.m. EDT: It looks as though the internet has identified one of the assailants involved in the beating of Deandre Harris as Daniel (Dan) Borden from Mason, Ohio. Earlier: When it comes to sleuthing, nothing beats the keen eyes of people on the internet. And after this weekend’s neo-Nazi…
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Here’s Why Jeff Sessions Federal Investigation Into Charlottesville, Va.’s White Supremacy Rally Is Bullshit
Who are we kidding? Attorney General Jeff “King Keebler” Sessions’ federal investigation into the torch-wielding white supremacist march on Charlottesville, Va., is going to be an inconclusive waste of resources and efforts. In fact, when I first learned that Sessions was going to open an investigation, I joked that he was probably going to research…
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Va. Woman Killed in Charlottesville Car Attack: Report
The lone victim killed during a peaceful counterprotest against white supremacist hate during the Charlottesville, Va., rally Saturday has been identified as Heather Heyer. Although police have not officially identified the woman who died in the crash, family and friends of Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal with the Miller Law Group, have confirmed that she was…
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#MaskOff: Social Media Exposes Racists From Charlottesville, Va., White Supremacist Rally
I love when a hot-ass song by sexy-voiced Future is also a cry to rip the sheets off racists. In what was clearly a not-so-great day yesterday, my rainbow at the end of this hollow, seemingly unending, dark-ass tunnel is that those fools who marched and maimed and killed in the name of white supremacy…
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Maybe Now Isn’t the Time, Guys
If you’re tempted to point out that you’re one of the good ones right now … please don’t. If you are upset that people of color are upset that their lives and beliefs are under assault by a resurgent, resilient, citronella-candle-filled white supremacist movement, empowered by a White House that can’t call a racist a…
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White Supremacists Beat Black Man With Poles in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage
An unidentified group of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., attacked and beat a black man with poles in a parking garage. The photo above, which was taken and posted to Twitter by Zach D. Roberts, a writer and photographer with Nation of Change, captures the violence that occurred during Saturday’s “Unite the Right” white supremacist…
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James Alex Fields Jr. Identified as Alleged Terrorist Who Plowed Through Crowd in Charlottesville, Va., Anti-Racism Rally
On Saturday afternoon, a car plowed through a crowd of anti-racism protesters, killing one and injuring several others, in Charlottesville, Va. Several hours later, a suspect was arrested and is now being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Twenty-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio, was charged with one count of second-degree murder, three…