What Next: White Supremacy on Trial in Charlottesville

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🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s been over four years since white supremacists gathered in a violent and deadly demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now, nine people are suing the organizers and groups involved with the Unite the Right rally as they try to prove the protest was a conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence. This isn’t the first time white supremacists have been taken to court -- but could this trial spell real consequences? Guest: Kathleen Belew, a historian at the University of Chicago, and the author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America and A Field Guide to White Supremacy. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	In a federal courtroom in Charlottesville, Virginia, there's a trial going on, which is day by
0:38.1	day revealing the inner thoughts of some of America's most prominent racists.
0:45.4	Some of these men you might have heard of, people like neo-Nazis Richard Spencer or Jason
0:50.2	Kessler or self-proclaimed shock jock Christopher Cantwell.
0:55.2	Their names aren't actually that important.
0:58.8	What's more important is what they've done.
1:02.4	They're accused of orchestrating the violence of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally.
1:12.5	You probably remember the images from that August weekend.
1:16.1	The white supremacists carrying tiki torches chanting, you will not replace us.
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