London 2017 - Days 5 and 6 and a Somber Homecoming

The husband in front of our hotel on Frith Street in the heart of Soho

The husband and I returned to the USA yesterday after enjoying two more wonderful days in London which included celebrating my birthday on Saturday.  With the disturbing event that unfolded in Charlottesville, I can truthfully say that I have mixed feelings about being back in America.  During the flight back I watched the Zookeeper's Wife, which recalled all to clearly what this kind of hatred that we are witnessing can lead to more quickly than many want to believe.  As previously noted, during our trip, it was constantly embarrassing being an American and having to explain that the majority of Americans did not vote for Trump and his call to racism and Neo-fascism, nor do we support him now.  We must save America's image in the world and say "No" to Trump and his supporters.

As I have noted on Facebook, I earned my undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia and I know Charlottesville well. The white supremacists on display over the last few days such as n the image below are NOT representative of Charlottesville and its people.  They are, however totally representative of Trump's base, including evangelical Christians who despite lip service to the message of Christ long ago threw away and right to call themselves Christian.  They now worship a virulent form of white nationalism that sows hatred of anyone with different beliefs, skin color, faith and/or sexual orientation. Don't believe Trump's utterly disingenuous attempt to build a false equivalency between the gathered white supremacists and those who oppose racist and fascism. 

These white supremacists - and by extension every evangelical Christian who voted for Trump - need to become social and political outcasts. While the Trump/Pence regime will never properly condemn them in a meaningful way, the rest of us patriotic Americans must oppose them and ultimately silence them. The cancer that they represent must be stopped.

More images of the white supremacist via the New York Times make it clear that these people descended on Charlottesville to intimidate and cause violence.  You do not carry an automatic weapon to a "peaceful Protest."