Khizr Khan tells San Diego audience about his run-in with Charlottesville white nationalist rally
Just over a year after after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention and challenged Donald Trump to read the Constitution, Khizr Khan was back at his home in Charlottesville, Va., where he said he saw the hatred he warned about in his famous speech walking through the streets of his community.
He was headed home in his car when the Unite the Right rally, a conservative political gathering that turned deadly, stopped traffic and blocked his route.
“And then we saw, with our own eyes, men with rifles and multiple guns around their waist and torches in their hands,” Khan recalled in an interview Wednesday. “And then, the worst — that I had never imagined that I would see in the United States, my blessed nation — was the Nazi flag that they carried. I looked around me, there were other people and they had exactly the same concern and fear on their faces that I did.”
Khan was in San Diego to encourage students to speak out when they witness similar types of hatred. The event, the No Place for Hate Leadership Conference, was hosted by the Anti-Defamation League’s San Diego office, and included more than 200 students who will be trained to take action when they see bias at their schools.
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