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<p>On Saturday night, a group of 40-50 <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/08/a_few_dozen_white_supremacists_return_to_charlottesville_for_brief_tiki.html" target="_blank">white supremacists returned to Charlottesville</a>, VA, led by Neo-Nazi organizer Richard Spencer, who helped plan the first gathering at the Robert E. Lee statue.</p><p>This reemergence comes less than two months after thousands of <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/so-that-happened/white-supremacist-charlottesville-uva-tiki-torch-twitter/" target="_self">white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville</a> back in August for a Unite the Right rally. During the summertime rally, the large gathering of Neo-Nazis spent hours chanting white power slogans and inciting violence against counter protesters. That ugly day in August took the life of <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/heather-heyer-parents-powerful-eulogies-forgiveness-moving-forward/" target="_self">32</a><a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/heather-heyer-parents-powerful-eulogies-forgiveness-moving-forward/" target="_self">-year-old Heather Heyer</a> after a white nationalist crashed a car into anti-racist protesters.</p><p>Needless to say, the return to Charlottesville is a profoundly depraved move.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/MattTalhelm/status/916813883863683072</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><span style="position: absolute; opacity: 0;">168</span></p><p>Spencer posted a video of the gathering on Twitter (which I won&#39;t link here because he doesn&#39;t deserve more clicks), and dubbed the gathering &quot;Charlottesville 3.0&quot; despite the middling turnout.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Richard Spencer lead about 30 white nationalist gathered at Emancipation Park. <a href="https://t.co/yERgDJFDhN">pic.twitter.com/yERgDJFDhN</a></p>&mdash; CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First (@CBS19News) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS19News/status/916819984977932289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>During the brief gathering Saturday, Spencer and his followers continued the ugly spirit of Unite The Right by carrying tiki torches and chanting &quot;You will not replace us.&quot;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">40-50 alt-right goons w Richard Spencer in E Park for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Charlottesville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Charlottesville</a> 3.0, as he calls it. &quot;You will not replace us! Russia is our friend!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/iM8wrVgidE">pic.twitter.com/iM8wrVgidE</a></p>&mdash; Jalane Smash the Fash Schmidt 📚👩🏾‍🏫🗣📢 (@Jalane_Schmidt) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jalane_Schmidt/status/916835437112647680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>At one point, Spencer gave a speech to his followers that criticized the Charlottesville community, claiming they lacked true community. According to his speech, his &quot;Identitarian&quot; (Neo-Nazi) gang is the only <em>true</em> community.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">RS gave speech, said <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Charlottesville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Charlottesville</a> has no sense of community, we don&#39;t know our neighbors. Only his &quot;Identitarian&quot; movement provides this</p>&mdash; Jalane Smash the Fash Schmidt 📚👩🏾‍🏫🗣📢 (@Jalane_Schmidt) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jalane_Schmidt/status/916835876797403137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">But <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Charlottesville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Charlottesville</a> has sense of community: 2 dozen ppl, inc clergy, guarded front of Synagogue, where congregation was celebrating Sukkot</p>&mdash; Jalane Smash the Fash Schmidt 📚👩🏾‍🏫🗣📢 (@Jalane_Schmidt) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jalane_Schmidt/status/916836830087086081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">About 20 people have gathered outside a downtown synagogue to confront any alt-right stragglers who could still be in the area. <a href="https://t.co/13tRUkMefC">pic.twitter.com/13tRUkMefC</a></p>&mdash; C-VILLE Weekly (@cville_weekly) <a href="https://twitter.com/cville_weekly/status/916826513298874369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Once word spread of the white supremacist gathering, cop cars arrived to guard the area and a small assemblage of students gathered in counter protest.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Are the police are there? <a href="https://t.co/7JxcJ3QVTS">https://t.co/7JxcJ3QVTS</a></p>&mdash; seantubbs (@seantubbs) <a href="https://twitter.com/seantubbs/status/916814469417852928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/MattTalhelm/status/916814883836096512</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Some students have gathered near Jefferson statue. No indication white supremacists are coming, but there&#39;s an increased police presence <a href="https://t.co/KJX4czaOfr">pic.twitter.com/KJX4czaOfr</a></p>&mdash; Tim Dodson (@Tim_Dodson) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Dodson/status/916825989971415041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/RuthServen/status/916833861866283009</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>According to Charlottesville police, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/white-supremacists-brandishing-torches-return-charlottesville-article-1.3548325" target="_blank">white supremacist gathering dissipated</a> after roughly ten minutes, at which point the group piled into a van and drove away. This gathering seemed to be centered around Spencer&#39;s speech, and the repeating of a few chants.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/MattTalhelm/status/916816089421635584</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Before leaving the park Spencer and his followers loudly threatened &quot;we&#39;ll be back,&quot; and made it clear that Charlottesville, and any conscience bearing American, shouldn&#39;t sit back and relax if they want these outbursts of hatred to stop.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The alt-right&#39;s sense of community: they sang &quot;Dixie,&quot; said Gen. Robert E. Lee was great, and made menacing promise that &quot;We will be back!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/dHcgwkjWL2">pic.twitter.com/dHcgwkjWL2</a></p>&mdash; Jalane Smash the Fash Schmidt 📚👩🏾‍🏫🗣📢 (@Jalane_Schmidt) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jalane_Schmidt/status/916838479249715200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/PhilMcCausland/status/916819914949844992</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/MattTalhelm/status/916814844610924544</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>In response, the Lt. Governor Ralph Northam <a href="http://ralphnortham.com/2017/10/08/statement-ralph-northam-responds-white-supremacists-neo-nazis-charlottesville-evening/" target="_blank">quickly released a statement </a>condemning the gathering of white supremacists.</p><p>He wrote:</p><p>&ldquo;There is no home, no place, and no safe harbor in the country I pledged to defend for the ugly hatred we saw in Charlottesville tonight. I don&rsquo;t see two sides or very fine people gathered here and anyone unwilling to call out this evil fails our commonwealth. Donald Trump&rsquo;s equivocation enabled this to happen again, and Ed Gillespie failed to call on the leader of his party to denounce neo-Nazis and white supremacists. There can be no ambiguity from any elected official: white supremacists are not welcome, and they will not win.&rdquo;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/RalphNortham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RalphNortham</a> issues statement on tonight&#39;s white nationalist torchlit rally in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Charlottesville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Charlottesville</a> <a href="https://t.co/jjx4fRTftm">pic.twitter.com/jjx4fRTftm</a></p>&mdash; Tim Dodson (@Tim_Dodson) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Dodson/status/916845097194590210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>This re-emergence serves as a dark and sobering reminder that these racists won&#39;t disappear on their own.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If we’re done wasting outrage on the NFL, maybe we could redirect some at actual nazis. <a href="https://t.co/WSw5bV9xjz">https://t.co/WSw5bV9xjz</a></p>&mdash; shauna (@goldengateblond) <a href="https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/916827515838021632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rile. Rinse. Repeat. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Charlottesville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Charlottesville</a> <a href="https://t.co/A9hy4yrR0R">https://t.co/A9hy4yrR0R</a></p>&mdash; Jennifer N. Victor (@jennifernvictor) <a href="https://twitter.com/jennifernvictor/status/916826098704551936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>We have to stay louder than them.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

White Supremacists return to Charlottesville in smaller march, threaten 'we'll be back.'

On Saturday night, a group of 40-50 white supremacists returned to Charlottesville, VA, led by Neo-Nazi organizer Richard Spencer, who helped plan the first gathering at the Robert E. Lee statue.This reemergence comes less than two months after thousands of white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville back in August for a Unite the Right rally. During the summertime rally, the large gathering of Neo-Nazis spent hours chanting white power slogans and inciting violence against counter protesters. That ugly day in August took the life of 32-year-old Heather Heyer after a white nationalist crashed a car into anti-racist protesters.Needless to say, the return to Charlottesville is a profoundly depraved move.https://twitter.com/MattTalhelm/status/916813883863683072168Spencer posted a video of the gathering on Twitter (which I won&#39;t link here because he doesn&#39;t deserve more clicks), and dubbed the gathering &quot;Charlottesville 3.0&quot; despite the middling turnout.Richard Spencer lead about 30 white nationalist gathered at Emancipation Park. pic.twitter.com/yERgDJFDhN&mdash; CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First (@CBS19News) October 8, 2017 During the brief gathering Saturday, Spencer and his followers continued the ugly spirit of Unite The Right by carrying tiki torches and chanting &quot;You will not replace us.&quot;40-50 alt-right goons w Richard Spencer in E Park for #Charlottesville 3.0, as he calls it. &quot;You will not replace us! Russia is our friend!&quot; pic.twitter.com/iM8wrVgidE&mdash; Jalane Smash the Fash Schmidt 📚👩🏾‍🏫🗣📢 (@Jalane_Schmidt) October 8, 2017 At one point, Spencer gave a speech to his followers that criticized the Charlottesville community, claiming they lacked true community. According to his speech, his &quot;Identitarian&quot; (Neo-Nazi) gang is the only true community.RS gave speech, said #Charlottesville has no sense of community, we don&#39;t know our neighbors. Only his &quot;Identitarian&quot; movement provides this&mdash; Jalane Smash the Fash Schmidt 📚👩🏾‍🏫🗣📢 (@Jalane_Schmidt) October 8, 2017 But #Charlottesville has sense of community: 2 dozen ppl, inc clergy, guarded front of Synagogue, where congregation was celebrating Sukkot&mdash; Jalane Smash the Fash Schmidt 📚👩🏾‍🏫🗣📢 (@Jalane_Schmidt) October 8, 2017 About 20 people have gathered outside a downtown synagogue to confront any alt-right stragglers who could still be in the area. pic.twitter.com/13tRUkMefC&mdash; C-VILLE Weekly (@cville_weekly) October 8, 2017 Once word spread of the white supremacist gathering, cop cars arrived to guard the area and a small assemblage of students gathered in counter protest.Are the police are there? https://t.co/7JxcJ3QVTS&mdash; seantubbs (@seantubbs) October 7, 2017 https://twitter.com/MattTalhelm/status/916814883836096512Some students have gathered near Jefferson statue. No indication white supremacists are coming, but there&#39;s an increased police presence pic.twitter.com/KJX4czaOfr&mdash; Tim Dodson (@Tim_Dodson) October 8, 2017 https://twitter.com/RuthServen/status/916833861866283009According to Charlottesville police, the white supremacist gathering dissipated after roughly ten minutes, at which point the group piled into a van and drove away. This gathering seemed to be centered around Spencer&#39;s speech, and the repeating of a few chants.https://twitter.com/MattTalhelm/status/916816089421635584Before leaving the park Spencer and his followers loudly threatened &quot;we&#39;ll be back,&quot; and made it clear that Charlottesville, and any conscience bearing American, shouldn&#39;t sit back and relax if they want these outbursts of hatred to stop.The alt-right&#39;s sense of community: they sang &quot;Dixie,&quot; said Gen. Robert E. Lee was great, and made menacing promise that &quot;We will be back!&quot; pic.twitter.com/dHcgwkjWL2&mdash; Jalane Smash the Fash Schmidt 📚👩🏾‍🏫🗣📢 (@Jalane_Schmidt) October 8, 2017 https://twitter.com/PhilMcCausland/status/916819914949844992https://twitter.com/MattTalhelm/status/916814844610924544In response, the Lt. Governor Ralph Northam quickly released a statement condemning the gathering of white supremacists.He wrote:&ldquo;There is no home, no place, and no safe harbor in the country I pledged to defend for the ugly hatred we saw in Charlottesville tonight. I don&rsquo;t see two sides or very fine people gathered here and anyone unwilling to call out this evil fails our commonwealth. Donald Trump&rsquo;s equivocation enabled this to happen again, and Ed Gillespie failed to call on the leader of his party to denounce neo-Nazis and white supremacists. There can be no ambiguity from any elected official: white supremacists are not welcome, and they will not win.&rdquo;.@RalphNortham issues statement on tonight&#39;s white nationalist torchlit rally in #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/jjx4fRTftm&mdash; Tim Dodson (@Tim_Dodson) October 8, 2017 This re-emergence serves as a dark and sobering reminder that these racists won&#39;t disappear on their own.If we’re done wasting outrage on the NFL, maybe we could redirect some at actual nazis. https://t.co/WSw5bV9xjz&mdash; shauna (@goldengateblond) October 8, 2017 Rile. Rinse. Repeat. #Charlottesville https://t.co/A9hy4yrR0R&mdash; Jennifer N. Victor (@jennifernvictor) October 8, 2017 We have to stay louder than them.