Five years ago today, Heather Heyer was killed by James Fields when he rammed his car through a group of counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, shortly after Donald Trump became president. Unite the Right, which was organized by neo-Nazis Jason Kessler and Richard Spencer, attracted white supremacists and far-right political groups to Charlottesville in August 2017. The protest was ostensibly organized to stop the removal of the statue of General Lee in downtown Charlottesville, but the event quickly became a smorgasbord of white nationalist grievances, most notably the conspiracy theory that immigration was being used intentionally to replace white and European-descended people in the United States.
So sad and tragic. We can't even get rid of Confederate statues in this country without white supremacists killing innocent people. Thank you for the memorial to Heather.
So sad and tragic. We can't even get rid of Confederate statues in this country without white supremacists killing innocent people. Thank you for the memorial to Heather.