Donald Trump Remarks Aid White Supremacists' Political Ambitions

Rachel Maddow looks at the history of Ku Klux Klan in American politics and its quest for power and points out that it was no accident that Donald Trump helped give racists legitimacy with his remarks about the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

There were good people on both sides.

So you are saying that there is a such thing as a good Ku Klux Klansman or a hate filled White Supremus?

There were good people there objecting to removing the statue.

That I not what I asked you Steve. So you are saying that there is a such thing as a good Ku Klux Klansman or a hate filled White Supremus?

Ron, I said "good people". The KKK aren't good people.

The president said that there are good people on both sides, do you agree with Ttump?

That's what I've been saying Ron. I agree with the President there were good people on both sides, and we are both talking about people of good faith who want the statue to remain, not bad people like neo-nazis and violent lawless "anti" fascists.

Neo-Nazis are the people you are talking about, who was protesting that they Wanted the statues to remain. They came from all over the To join you in that Display of white superiority conviction. The Jews, will not replace us. You really think that has something to do with ”Good People?”

The land for the park was purchased in 1917 by Paul Goodloe McIntire to be the setting for a bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller that McIntire had commissioned. The park and statue were donated to the city of Charlottesville by McIntire.[3] The statue, although commissioned in 1917, was not cast until 1924 and it was finally placed in the park on Saturday, May 3, of that year.[1]

In February 2017, the City Council voted to remove the Robert E. Lee statue from the park. However, a lawsuit opposing the removal was filed in March 2017 and the statue remains, pending the outcome of the lawsuit.[4]

On June 5, 2017, the City Council, led by Mayor Michael Signer, voted unanimously to change the park's name to Emancipation Park.[2]

The renaming of the park and the proposed removal of the Robert Edward Lee sculpture on the site by the Charlottesville city council was the catalyst for the 2017 Unite the Right rally and a focus of controversy between those who want it removed and those who want it to remain.[4]

In July 2018 the park was renamed Market Street Park.[5]

That was nice Steve but my question to you that you are trying to dodge is: Neo-Nazis are the people you are talking about, who was protesting that they Wanted the statues to remain. They came from all over the To join you in that Display of white superiority conviction. The Jews, will not replace us. You really think that The neo Nazi party has something to do with ”Good People?”

As you can see Ron, the controversy about the statue did not involve only neo-nazis.

I asked you do you really think that The neo Nazi party has something to do with ”Good People?”