American Hate, a History
From Time magazine:
Governor Strom Thurmond, the segregationist Dixiecrat nominee for President, addressed a crowd of 1,000 inside the University of Virginia's Cabell Hall in Charlottesville, Va. Attacking President Truman's civil rights program, one that included anti-lynching legislation and protections against racial discrimination in hiring, Thurmond denounced these moves toward racial justice, saying such measures "would undermine the American way of life and outrage the Bill of Rights." Interrupted by applause and standing ovations, Thurmond was in his element in the Old Confederacy.
“”Seventy years on, in the heat of a Virginia August, heirs to the Dixiecrats' platform of hate and exclusion--Klansmen, neo-Nazis and white supremacists of sundry affiliations--gathered in Charlottesville, not far from where Thurmond had taken his stand. The story is depressingly well known by now: a young counterprotester, Heather Heyer, was killed by a barreling car allegedly driven by a man who was seen marching with a neo-Nazi group. In the wake of Heyer's death, the President of the United States--himself an heir to the white populist tradition of Thurmond and of Alabama's George Wallace--flailed about, declining to directly denounce the white supremacists for nearly 48 hours. There was, he said, hate "on many sides," as if there were more than one side to a conflict between neo-Nazis who idolize Adolf Hitler and Americans who stood against Klansmen and proto--Third Reich storm troopers.
http://time.com/4904290/american-hate-a-history/?xid=homepage&pcd=hp-magmod
