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May 15, 2017

Virginia: Torch-Bearing White Mob Protests Removal of Confederate Monument
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And in Charlottesville, Virginia, dozens of torch-bearing white
nationalists gathered Saturday for two rallies to protest plans to
remove a Confederate monument. White nationalist Richard Spencer led the
protesters, who chanted "We will not be replaced." While the
torch-bearing mob evoked the long, bloody history of white terrorism
against African Americans, some took to Twitter to mock Spencer and the
other white nationalists for using party store-style tiki torches at the
rally.


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