My impression is that the statue was more an excuse for gathering. The people at UVA were clearly Nazis.
So, while I think the whole statue removal is worse than stupid, this wasn't where I was going to say so. A great many demonstrators were indeed racists intending to make a racist statement.
25 posted on 08/12/2017 1:47:15 PM PDT by Mad Dawg
(Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico.)