Charlottesville, VA is at least a case study
I'm very disturbed by the anachronistic perspectives, representations and symbols that have been used to explain and/or contextualise the events and situation that recently observed in Charlottesville, Virginia. The legacy of white supremacy demonstrated in the way that we've just observed extends not to Europe in particular, but to these United States. It is not the case that time heals all wounds. It seems to be more a matter of failure to remember correctly or to recall actual historical occurrences particular to one's contextual suffering is a matter of denial, if not outright selective amnesia. There was no progressive and healing mediation for the legacy of hate and white supremist ideologies past and extant in these United States. So just as there is a rich legacy of trauma endured and manifest in the lives of the victims of white supremacy that is historically, and some have averred genetically passed down, the promulgation of this form of hate and vicious animus em...