White supremacy as an ideology has existed in this country since its
founding, but it has been many years since it has been on such public display
as it was in Charlottesville over the weekend.
Which is why so many people are so shocked to see images of people
carrying banners with swastikas on them and hear audio of them chanting slogans
like ‘Blood & Soil’ and ‘Jews will not replace us’ as they marched through
the streets of an American city. But how
did these people, mostly young men, become radicalized and what commonalities do
they share with other ideological extremists like those in ISIS? Joining me today to talk all about
radicalization in the context of Charlottesville and the commonalities of ISIS
and white supremacists is Nayyera Haq who has served as a Senior
Director in the Obama White House on national security and economic policy and
in the State Department as a Senior Advisor and Spokesperson.
Last night, the city of
Baltimore quietly removed all 4 of its Confederate statues overnight, the
removal followed a unanimously vote by the city council, and on Saturday, in
response to the Nazi rally and white supremacist terrorist attack in
Charlottesville, Virginia that left one American dead and dozens more injured
the Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky Jim Gray pledged to take action to relocate
two Confederate statues in his city. Mayor Jim Gray joins me today to talk
all about happened in Charlottesville over the weekend and why he has
accelerated the process of removing the monuments located in Lexington.
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