A heated protest against the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va. ended in the death of one counter-protester after a white nationalist drove his car into a crowd. AirTalk dives into how the conflict started; the ethics of publicly identifying the white nationalists photographed at the rally via social media; what is the white nationalist movement?; and more.
Violence in Charlottesville: What happened and where do we go from here
What started off as a protest by white nationalists in Charlottesville turned deadly Saturday, when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters that left 1 dead and many injured.
On AirTalk today, Larry and our panel of guests will examine what caused the violence in Charlottesville over the weekend, and the social and political aftermath.
Guests:
What happened in Charlottesville:
Lauren Berg, staff reporter for The Daily Progress, the local newspaper in Charlottesville, Va.; she tweets
Ben Schreckinger, staff writer for POLITICO Magazine who was in Charlottesville, Va. this weekend; he tweets
The political fallout of President's initial statement:
Lanhee Chen, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and former policy director for the Romney-Ryan 2012 presidential campaign; he tweets
Matt Rodriguez, Democratic strategist and founder and chief executive officer of Rodriguez Strategies; he is also a former senior Obama advisor in 2008; he tweets
The Department of Justice investigation:
Justin Levitt, professor of law at Loyola Law School and former deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department under President Obama; he tweets
What is white nationalism:
Brian Levin, professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino; he tweets
Evolving attitudes toward Confederate symbols:
William Deverell, professor of History at USC, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West; he specializes in the Civil War and its connection to the American West
Joan Waugh, a UCLA professor of history, Civil War authority and co-author of the book “The American War: A History of the Civil War Era” (2015, Flip Learning)