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Two years ago in Charlottesville an avowed neo Nazi committed a terrorist act droving through a crowd of protesters, killing #HeatherHeyer. Trump called the Nazis and those protesting with them "fine people" but we know the truth. Heather may be gone but her memory will never die 
Nazis marched through the streets of Charlottesville, they killed Heather Heyer in the open, unrepentantly and Trump equivocated their actions on camera to the world and the nation. Instead of reassuring a rattled nation he emboldened their hate. These are not "fine people"
If your are brown, or black, or gay, or Jewish two years ago you were frightened. Because we have seen this kind of hate before. We knew what it was from the moment of the collared shirts, tiki torches and chants of "Jews will not replace us!" that these were not "fine people."
If you show up to a rally, no matter what the event's original intent and this is who else is there pick another day to march. If you choose to stay, to march alongside such people you are not "fine" in any sense of the word. You are endorsing hate and bigotry of the worst kind.
Heather Heyer showed up and stood up in Charlottesville bc she recognized that such hate should not and could not go unchallenged. That such bigotry is what engenders and emboldens those who would seek and in her case succeed to do us harm. Rest in power Heather.
