"It's Been (very, very) Condemned."

"You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. No one wants to say that, but I'll say it right now: You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent."
"There was no way of making a correct statement that early [when he chose to denounce violence 'on both sides']. I had to see the facts, unlike a lot of reporters."
"You can call it terrorism. You can call it murder. You can call it whatever you want. I call it the fastest outcome to a great verdict . . . You get into legal semantics."
"The driver of the car was a murderer. What he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable thing."
"You had people in that group who were protesting the taking down of what to them is a very, very important statue."
"What about the alt-left that came charging at the alt-right -- do they have any semblance of guilt? "They came charging, clubs in hand, swinging clubs."
U.S. President Donald J. Trump

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking about Charlottesville. Picture: APSource:AP

"President Trump, please, for God's sakes, don't feel like you've got to say these things. It's not going to do you any good."
"Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa."
David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan leader

People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Picture: APSource:AP

In Durham, North Carolina, 'protesters', unwilling to await a legal permit, as President Trump reminded journalists the alt-left counter-protesting in Charlottesville over the violent weekend of the hard right coming together to protest a move to remove a commemorative statue to Civil War-era Confederate General Robert E. Lee also failed to secure the requisite permit, toppled a monument that had been erected to honour Confederate veterans.

And another monument commemorating Confederate veterans was taken down in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. These illegal and clearly anti-historical acts of reversing remembrance as though to expunge from history transformational events in the United States that led the way toward abolishing the brutal miseries of Black slavery are on tap to appease the righteous and those given to clasping their victimhood in vengeance-seeking when what they do has no effect whatever.

It is a strange thing about human nature when selective blame and anger motivates people who should make an effort to study their own history. Arab Muslim slave traders initiated the slave trade and drove it for the immense profits to be made. Black Africans were transported in huge numbers with no regard to the tragedy of those who died in the process, to the Middle East, to serve as slaves. Europeans were quick to adapt to this new and useful tool in advancing their economies through slave labour.

Before emancipation, many freed Blacks for whom manumission or the ability to buy their own freedom gave the opportunity to advance their own fortunes took themselves to buying their own black slaves, working them just as Europeans had done and Arab Muslims before them. Raiding parties of Arabs to empty African villages of their populations strove to satisfy the demands of a slave-hungry economy based on the labour of Blacks who lived and died to satisfy white dominance and avarice.

The unbelievable ascension of an ignorant, egocentric lout to the presidency of the United States, one who made no effort to disassociate himself from from the underbelly of racist America gave the signal for the bigoted, racist element in society to emerge from the dark spaces they normally occupy into the light of day after the constraints of living under the administration of the nation's first biracial president who represented the affairs of the nation, and of all its people.

Statue of Robert E. Lee, Confederate Civil War General, at Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.   Source:Getty Images

In Baltimore, Maryland Confederate monuments were removed in the dead of night to be hauled off on waiting trucks. Crews began the removal process quietly to complete the extirpation from public view of four Confederate monuments, a decision reached extemporaneously by the city's mayor with no consultation with the public. "It was important that we move quickly and quietly, and that's what we did, as soon as I realized they were easy to move", stated Mayor Catherine Pugh.

The presence of a man whose intelligence was arrested during that phase when as a juvenile he was delinquent in attaining a decent education, resulting in his presence as an elder who enjoys bragging about his people skills and grasp of business matters while mocking those who fail to fully appreciate his acumen and leadership capability even as he makes one misstep after another on the national and international scene, alarming the party he represents and alienating the bulk of the American population, has unleashed the sinister and full-blown pride of racism in America.

Ku Klux Klan protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Picture: AFPSource:AFP