attacks as terrorist attacks and quote, unquote, racism? well, i think accountability belongs on the individual, and it s certainly a complex political dynamic we have in this country right now, but at the end of the day something motivated this guy to get into a car and speed up and take human life. i don t think that s anything he can blame on the president or anything but himself. i think that s the way the prosecutors, state and federal, will be examining this case. all right, kendall coffey, kristen clarke, thank you both very much for joining me on this sunday. appreciate it. new reaction today regarding the president s remarks following yesterday s tragic events in charlottesville, virginia. watch this. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, on many sides. the white house releasing a
it s existed historically in the chattel slavery and also in the form of segregation that existed before the civil rights movement and as it exists today in the form of mass incarceration in the ongoing struggle over voter suppression, for instance. so a lot of this focus on monuments is really a proxy battle in a lot of ways for the ongoing reality of structural racism as it exists in both policy and social practice. and i thought it was helpful that the new york times pointed out that in charlottesville, virginia, half of the residents during the civil war were actually enslaved. this is an area where thomas jefferson is still revered and of course, he was a slave owner himself. when you talk about these protests over confederate statues and flags and proxy battle the real issue is systemic racism. can you talk about how that is playing out on the streets of the united states today and how what we saw yesterday is an outgrowths of that?
murderer and go home. the go home sentiment is something that was echoed by the governor of virginia. he spoke to our nbc s tom costello earlier today. take a listen. it does not sound like we have that audio, but you had the governor, governor terry mcauliffe basically saying he wanted to see these white nationalists, neo-nazis, not just out of the town, but out of the state and out of the country. we can tell you here in charlottesville itself, things are beginning to get back to normal. we ve seen a lot of the barricades that were up ahead of this rally, they ve been removed. we had crews out here cleaning the streets this morning, picking up all of the garbage and the police chief just came by here moments ago, told us they are going to start reopening final streets that were closed off because of this rally, so things are getting back to normal here, albeit very slowly. jacob? yeah, maya, specifically some of the stuff that terry
los angeles riots and the o.j. simpson verdict, also here in l.a. in the 1990s. that s in addition to 42% of black americans who say they are very dissatisfied with the way african-americans are treated compare to just 15% of whites who share the same view. joining me now, campaign director for the center of american progress action fund, emily tisch-sussman and conservative commentator. good to see all of you. noelle, we saw the images coming out of charlottesville yesterday. just almost impossible to watch. how do we get here as a country? you know, i don t know how we got here, i don t know how we evolved here, but i will tell you one thing, i think that a lot of people, you know, especially social media, you re seeing this played over and over and over again, so if you weren t angry to begin with, you will sooner or later be angry, but i think what a lot of the protesters, you know, while i think that a lot of the
everything that we have seen so far from social media, to statements made by those who know him, including former teachers, made clear that he is somebody who is a white supremacist, he is somebody who embraces the views of the alt-right, and yesterday he used his vehicle as a weapon to take an innocent life of an american who was standing up and speaking out against what unfolded in charlottesville yesterday. we need the heavy hand of the government to step in and to interrogate and investigate all of the organizations that had a hand in yesterday s tragic march so that we can get to the bottom of what happened and to find out whether there were other acts of violence that may have been intended to have been carried out yesterday. kendall, real quick before we go, do you think the alt-right movement is being emboldened by the administration s failure, specifically, very specifically, the president of the united states failure to condemn these