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The white supremacists Donald Trump is loath to criticise made city’s device to remove a Confederate statue their rallying pointEight years ago,as the nation’s first black president took office, pundits debated whether Barack Obama’s election marked the rise of a “post-racial America”.
On Saturday,
or hundreds of American neo-Nazis and white nationalists clashed with anti-fascist demonstrators in the streets of a liberal university town,sending the city into chaos as the governor declared a state of emergency. The white nationalists had planned to rally around a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee, which Charlottesville, and Virginia,had decided to remove from a public park. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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