Shake me and make me remember

[sovay]

I had a bunch of things I wanted to post about this afternoon, but they have been temporarily displaced by Nazis. I tend to assume everyone who might read this journal is ahead of me on the news curve, but if not, Charlottesville is in a state of emergency after this morning's white supremacist rally was suspended due to violence breaking out. An as yet unidentified car drove into a crowd of counter-protesters. (Funny how you can scream about Islamic terrorism till you're blue in the face, but there's nothing wrong with vehicle-ramming when it's white hands on the wheel.) As a person miles away from Virginia who has been trying to figure out what to do beyond making phone calls to politicians and yelling on the internet, I found the following links useful:

Sara Benincasa has compiled a list of local nonprofits who could use the support, including NAACP Albemarle-Charlottesville, Charlottesville Pride, Meals on Wheels Charlottesville, Congregation Beth Israel, and Virginia's Legal Aid Justice Center.

Charlottesville Solidarity Legal Fund is a community resource that posts bail and raises other funds for anti-racist activists.

Beloved Community Charlottesville raises money for local charities based directly and proportionately on the number of neo-Nazis who show for the rally.

I'll add other resources if I come across them. I've just been reminded one of my mother's cousins lives in Charlottesville. [edit] They are fine. One fatality confirmed from the car attack, one suspect in custody. One man in the White House doing nothing to condemn terrorism when it's the same color as his skin.

Comments

Re: "nothing wrong"

[sovay]

In terms of twitter, though, I was interested to see that it seems that somewhere he has a script to copy that says, simply (with no specific references) that violence is bad.

Well, if left to himself, he'd probably just caption the situation "Sad!"

Re: "nothing wrong"

[sartorias]

If left to himself he'd roll his eyes and say "Whatever." After all, the news isn't about him, and that's what's *important*.

Re: "nothing wrong"

[sovay]

If left to himself he'd roll his eyes and say "Whatever."

It's all right, he reserved "sad" for the woman murdered in the car attack. And best regards.

Excellent icon.