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Virginia: Torch-Bearing White Mob Protests Removal of Confederate Monument

HeadlineMay 15, 2017

And in Charlottesville, Virginia, dozens of torch-bearing white nationalists gathered Saturday for two rallies to protest plans to remove a Confederate monument. White nationalist Richard Spencer led the protesters, who chanted “We will not be replaced.” While the torch-bearing mob evoked the long, bloody history of white terrorism against African Americans, some took to Twitter to mock Spencer and the other white nationalists for using party store-style tiki torches at the rally.

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