The following is excerpted from an article on the Root by Angela Helm
July 9 Scores of protesters shouted down homegrown terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, as the reviled racists marched in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of Confederate statues from the city.
USA Today reports that more than a thousand multi-racial demonstrators flooded this city’s downtown area Saturday to shout down about 50 Klan members, some of whom were flanked with Confederate flags, and hooded, as they marched to Justice Park.
Protesters got creative (and a little buck) with their signs, including “#BlocKKKparty,” “Not OKKK,”, and “My Life Matters”.
The KKK was protesting the Charlottesville City Council’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a public park. A court injunction has put the statue’s removal on hold until a November hearing.
Said Lee statue was vandalized on Friday night, and was the site of a May rally with alt-right racist Richard Spencer, who held a vigil there in protest of the statue’s removal.
Several white nationalist groups are planning another rally for Aug. 12.