I live in Charlottesville, Virginia, a city that in a few horrendous hours has become synonymous with violence and hatred.
I desperately want to tell you that this isn’t Charlottesville. And in some ways, it isn’t. Many of the protestors you saw on the news came from outside our city. They rallied around the issue of a Robert E. Lee statue potentially being removed. However, this is Charlottesville, and this is Virginia. We live in a place fractured by racial history and racial wounds. There is a reason the alt-right has chosen to center their rallies here. We must acknowledge that racial sin has been present in our city and our commonwealth all along.
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