The Faces of Bigotry: When the Hoods Come Off – The New York Times

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The Faces of Bigotry: When the Hoods Come Off

The pictures from Charlottesville, Va., reveal what pictures of oppression and violence generally do not: the ordinary people who typically perpetuate white supremacy.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/the-faces-of-bigotry-when-the-hoods-come-off/

The photographs from Charlottesville, Va., last weekend tell multiple stories. They document a rally, “Unite the Right,” where a protest over the removal of a Confederate monument served as a smokescreen for spewing racist and anti-Semitic hate. They show the counterprotesters who gathered to uphold the values of democracy and justice. They depict the murder and injury of some of these courageous individuals.