Unite What’s Right By Hank Silverberg There they were again--Nazis, skinheads, white supremacists--standing in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House waving the flag and calling it a “white civil rights movement.” Your first reaction should be, “What?” For those of you who read this blog on a regular basis, you will find this one a bit different. It has to be. For more than 200 years, with some notable exceptions, the white, protestant, elite has ruled America. But the majority of people in America stopped being white years ago. There are hundreds of millions of people who know that and believe it makes us a stronger nation. The folks with the Swastikas and Stars and Bars represent a small minority who don’t get it. In fact, after all the media coverage and all the rhetoric, only about two dozen people came to the “Unite the Right” rally at Lafayette Park this past Sunday. They were far out numbered by a variety of count...
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