Charlottesville: Our Town, Our Country
Episode 207, Aug 18, 2017, 04:00 PM
On this episode of BackStory, Brian, Ed, Joanne, and Nathan share their personal reactions to the violence that happened in Charlottesville in 2017.
Brian, Ed, Joanne, and Nathan share their personal reactions to last week’s violence in Charlottesville, when white supremacists and Neo-Nazis showed up in town, some of them heavily armed. Violent clashes left one counter protester dead, and 34 injured. The BackStory hosts also discuss the meaning of Confederate statutes, and why they’re suddenly so polarizing. They conclude the conversation with why we’re seeing this resurgence in white nationalist activism in 2017.