Friday, August 18, 2017

After Confederate Statue Toppler Jailed, Trump Adds Insult To Injury With 2 Words - Fusion Laced Illusions

Over the weekend, violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, when white nationalists held a “Unite the Right” rally on the UVA campus. In the days which followed, protests broke out around the country in response, and at one demonstration in Durham, North Carolina, a Confederate statue was destroyed. The culprit was subsequently jailed, and now, President Donald Trump has added insult to injury with just two words.
The incident in Charlottesville ignited a chain of protests in cities across the nation, including one demonstration organized by the Worker’s World Party, a Marxist-Leninist group founded in 1959 as a hard-line offshoot of the more moderate Socialist Workers Party. This protest in North Carolina has garnered the majority of media attention because it was in Durham that 22-year-old activist student Takiyah Thompson helped destroy a historic statue.
Thompson used a ladder to climb atop the nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier and place a rope around it, which her cohorts then used to pull the monument to the ground, destroying it. At a news conference the next day, Thompson said, “I did the right thing. Everyone who was there — the people did the right thing. The people will continue to keep making the right choices until every Confederate statue is gone, until white supremacy is gone. That statue is where it belongs. It needs to be in the garbage,” she concluded, according to Daily Caller.


After Confederate Statue Toppler Jailed, Trump Adds Insult To Injury With 2 Words - Fusion Laced Illusions

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