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It's a beautiful sunny summer Friday in Washington, which should feel great, but

the tension in DC right now is palpable because actual Nazis are coming to town this weekend.

It's hard to believe, but it's a little less hard because of what went down exactly

one year ago this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Obtain Hadari was there protesting against the white supremacists.

My background is Iranian American.

They like to grew up Muslim and for me growing up in the South particularly, I had always

been sort of a rally to experience the racism either directly or indirectly.

Obtains from Harrisonburg, Virginia about an hour northwest of Charlottesville and he

spoke to us from a summer camp where he's a debate coach.

I was at the torch like rally the night before and that's what I understood how real this

is about to be.

We were just completely swarmed by white nationalist.

Surrounded with my TV torches and were hurling, slurred at us, they were filling lighter fluid

and torches at us.

I saw a fight to break out next to me.

White National is speeding up somebody and it's as I'm trying to help protect another

person.

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