America, America, God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood, From Sea to shining sea.

A loose conglomeration of like-minded Americans last week connected through social media and converged in Charlottesville and staged a shocking picture of bigotry gone wild. The violence that erupted when white nationalist chanting anti-Semitic and other neo-Nazi racist slogans, waving both the confederate and Nazi flags, down the streets of Charlottesville in Virginia. They were met by an opposing group, made up of white and black members of the community; and the mayhem erupted that left one young women dead (when one white nationalist drove his car into the crowd, that also injured 19 others), and two policemen who were killed when their helicopter monitoring the protests, crashed. Continue reading My Take on It: America under white supremacist siege: former presidents weigh in against bigotry →