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Charlottesville, White Supremacy and Kids With Disabilities #Enough Already

Earlier this year we ran a post asking whether special education was in trouble ? Perhaps this week it would be better to ask- Is America in trouble? White supremacists and nazis marched on Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. They carried lit torches and screamed at and terrorized local people. They murdered one counter-protester and two state troopers also died as a result of the event.  Nineteen other innocent people suffered injuries as a result of the Alt-right riot. The new and apparently emboldened white supremacists no longer feel that it is necessary to cover their faces with hoods . The accounts are disgusting and difficult to read. Here is one ;  here is another . The television program Vice did a documentary on the organizers and the riot- available here. White supremacists, nazis... really? I  thought that we as a country were past this kind of nonsense. As a country, we fought a war against nazis and white supremacists in World War II. Many of us have fa...