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<h1 id="reader-title">‘The Fight for the White Race’: What Some
of the Charlottesville Rally Participants Stand For</h1>
<div id="reader-credits" class="credits">The New York Times -
August 19, 2017<br>
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<p class="g-body">President Trump asserted this week that
there were “very fine people” among those who gathered in
Charlottesville, Va., last weekend to protest the removal
of a Confederate statue.</p>
<p class="g-body">While there is no definitive list of who
attended, research by The Times and the Anti-Defamation
League identified at least 120 participants who were
affiliated with racist and anti-Semitic groups ranging
from long-established organizations like the Ku Klux Klan
to newer groups that promote white nationalism.</p>
<p class="g-body">Here are recent statements from 20 of
these participants.</p>
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<p class="g-credit">Tasos Katopodis/European
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<p class="g-name">Jason Kessler <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> Virginia</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Main organizer of the
Charlottesville rally.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“Our entire country would be
better<br data-owner="balance-text">
off if the South had won the Civil War.”</p>
<p class="g-from">June 25, 2017, at a rally in
Washington, D.C.</p>
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<div class="g-person" id="matthew_heimbach">
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<p class="g-credit">Steve Helber/Associated Press</p>
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<p class="g-name">Matthew Heimbach <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> Indiana</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Founder of the Nationalist Front,
an umbrella<br data-owner="balance-text">
organization for the white nationalist movement.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“Globalism is the enemy of all of
us. And<br data-owner="balance-text">
the Jewish oligarchs and the capitalists and<br
data-owner="balance-text">
the bankers want to enslave the entire world.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Nov. 5, 2016, at a rally in
Harrisburg, Pa.</p>
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<div class="g-person" id="richard_b_spencer">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/richard_b_spencer-640.jpg"
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<p class="g-credit">Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
North America</p>
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<p class="g-name">Richard B. Spencer <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> Montana</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Prominent leader of the white
nationalist movement.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“America was, until this last
generation,<br data-owner="balance-text">
a white country designed for ourselves<br
data-owner="balance-text">
and our posterity. It is our creation, it<br
data-owner="balance-text">
is our inheritance and it belongs to us.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Nov. 19, 2016, at the annual
conference of the National Policy Institute.</p>
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<div class="g-person" id="nathan_damigo">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/nathan_damigo-640.jpg"
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<p class="g-credit">Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images</p>
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<p class="g-name">Nathan Damigo <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> California</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Founder of Identity Evropa, a
white separatist<br data-owner="balance-text">
group that endorses racial segregation.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“America was founded by white<br
data-owner="balance-text">
people. It was founded for white<br
data-owner="balance-text">
people. America was not founded to<br
data-owner="balance-text">
be a multiracial, multicultural society.”</p>
<p class="g-from">June 25, 2017, at a rally in
Washington, D.C.</p>
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<div class="g-person" id="david_duke">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/david_duke-640.jpg"
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<p class="g-credit">Shaban Athuman/Richmond
Times-Dispatch, via Associated Press</p>
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<p class="g-name">David Duke <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> Louisiana</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Former leader of the Ku Klux
Klan.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“This is only the beginning,
believe<br data-owner="balance-text">
me - Whitey is done being pushed<br
data-owner="balance-text">
around by Marxist/Anarchist/Leftist<br
data-owner="balance-text">
anti-White scum, time for pushback!”</p>
<p class="g-from">Aug. 12, 2017, in a tweet from
Charlottesville.</p>
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<div class="g-person" id="michael_hill">
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<p class="g-credit">Justin Ide/Reuters</p>
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<p class="g-name">Michael Hill <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> Alabama</span></p>
<p class="g-title">President of League of the South,
a "Southern nationalist organization that<br
data-owner="balance-text">
seeks the survival, well being and independence of
the Southern people."</p>
<p class="g-quote">“There is a war against you,
white men and<br data-owner="balance-text">
white women, on the streets of our cities.”</p>
<p class="g-from">June 24, 2017, at the League of
the South<br data-owner="balance-text">
2017 National Conference in Wetumpka, Ala.</p>
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<div class="g-person" id="mike_peinovich">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
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<p class="g-credit">Justin Ide/Reuters</p>
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<p class="g-name">Mike Peinovich <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> New York</span></p>
<p class="g-title">More commonly known as Mike
Enoch. Founder of a white<br
data-owner="balance-text">
nationalist blog and co-host of a podcast called
The Daily Shoah.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“Who’s in control of the Federal<br
data-owner="balance-text">
Reserve Bank? Who’s in control of<br
data-owner="balance-text">
the media? Who’s in control of our<br
data-owner="balance-text">
foreign policy? It’s Jews. We know<br
data-owner="balance-text">
that it’s Jews. Why do we go to war<br
data-owner="balance-text">
in the Middle East against our country’s<br
data-owner="balance-text">
interest, against the interest of our<br
data-owner="balance-text">
race? Because of Jewish control.”</p>
<p class="g-from">June 25, 2017, at a rally in
Washington, D.C.</p>
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<div class="g-person" id="robert_ray">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/robert_ray-640.jpg"
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<p class="g-credit">Samuel Corum/Anadolu
Agency/Getty Images</p>
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<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Robert Ray <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> Texas</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Writer for The Daily Stormer, a
white supremacist website.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“We’re showing to this parasitic
class<br data-owner="balance-text">
of anti-white vermin that this is our<br
data-owner="balance-text">
country. This country was built by<br
data-owner="balance-text">
our forefathers. It was sustained by<br
data-owner="balance-text">
us. It’s going to remain our country.”</p>
<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P54sP0Nlngg">
<p class="g-from">Aug. 12, 2017, in an interview
with Vice in Charlottesville.</p>
</a> </div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="rg_miller">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/rg_miller-640.jpg"
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data-ratio="0.6668571428571428">
<p class="g-credit">Joshua Roberts/Reuters</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">R.G. Miller <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> </span></p>
<p class="g-title">Arkansas state chairman of League
of the South.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“Foreigners are continuing to
float across<br data-owner="balance-text">
the border to ensure that this trend of white<br
data-owner="balance-text">
displacement and genocide continues.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Sept. 24, 2016, at the League of
the South state conference in Arkansas.</p>
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</div>
<div class="g-person" id="jeff_schoep">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
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data-ratio="0.6665538253215978">
<p class="g-credit">Joshua Roberts/Reuters</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Jeff Schoep <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> Michigan</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Leader of the National Socialist
Movement, a neo-Nazi group.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“We are the front line of the
fight<br data-owner="balance-text">
for the white race. We are the<br
data-owner="balance-text">
shock troops for the white race.”</p>
<p class="g-from">April 29, 2017, at a rally in
Pikeville, Ky.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="anthime_gionet">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
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data-widths="[320,640,900]"
data-ratio="0.6667924528301887">
<p class="g-credit">AP Photo/Steve Helber</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Anthime Gionet <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> </span></p>
<p class="g-title">Former BuzzFeed employee better
known as Baked Alaska.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“We’re proud to be white,<br
data-owner="balance-text">
brother. Hail victory. Hell yeah.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Aug. 11, 2017, at the
Charlottesville torch rally.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="augustus_sol_invictus">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
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data-ratio="0.6666666666666666">
<p class="g-credit">Reuters</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Augustus Sol Invictus <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> Florida</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Born Austin Gillespie. Recently
announced that he would<br
data-owner="balance-text">
seek Florida’s Republican nomination for the
Senate.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“Somebody forgot the pitchforks<br
data-owner="balance-text">
at home, so all we got is torches.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Aug. 11, 2017, at the
Charlottesville torch rally.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="ken_parker">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
class="g-freebird-lazy ll-init ll-notloaded"
data-pattern="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/ken_parker-{{size}}.jpg"
data-widths="[320,640,900]"
data-ratio="0.6665538253215978">
<p class="g-credit">Joshua Roberts/Reuters</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Ken Parker <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> Florida</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Member of the National Socialist
Movement.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“America was founded as a white<br
data-owner="balance-text">
man’s land and our race is our nation.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Dec. 11, 2016, at a rally in
Harrisburg, Pa.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="james_allsup">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
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data-ratio="0.6666666666666666">
<p class="g-credit">From Youtube video</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">James Allsup <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> </span></p>
<p class="g-title">Washington State University
student who<br data-owner="balance-text">
hosts a video and radio show on YouTube.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“Unless we get rid of legal and
illegal<br data-owner="balance-text">
migration, we will not have a country.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Aug. 12, 2017, at the
Charlottesville rally.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="peter_tefft">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
class="g-freebird-lazy ll-init ll-notloaded"
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data-ratio="0.6665538253215978">
<p class="g-credit">Edu Bayer for The New York Times</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Peter Tefft <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> North Dakota</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Self-described "pro-white
activist" whose<br data-owner="balance-text">
family repudiated him after Charlottesville.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“We feel that this is the
beginning<br data-owner="balance-text">
of a new civil rights era. And this<br
data-owner="balance-text">
time it’s going to be a pro-white one.”</p>
<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NK1XXdPwdI">
<p class="g-from">Aug. 15, 2017, in an interview
with local news.</p>
</a> </div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="christopher_cantwell">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
class="g-freebird-lazy ll-init ll-notloaded"
data-pattern="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/christopher_cantwell-{{size}}.jpg"
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data-ratio="0.6666666666666666">
<p class="g-credit">Vice video</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Christopher Cantwell <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> New Hampshire</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Hosts a live-streamed talk show
called “Radical Agenda.”</p>
<p class="g-quote">“I’m here to spread my ideas,
talk, in the<br data-owner="balance-text">
hopes that somebody more capable will come<br
data-owner="balance-text">
along and do that. Somebody like Donald<br
data-owner="balance-text">
Trump who does not give his daughter to a Jew.”</p>
<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P54sP0Nlngg">
<p class="g-from">Aug. 12, 2017, in an interview
with Vice in Charlottesville.</p>
</a> </div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="peter_cvjetanovic">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
class="g-freebird-lazy ll-init ll-notloaded"
data-pattern="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/peter_cvjetanovic-{{size}}.jpg"
data-widths="[320,640,900]"
data-ratio="0.6666666666666666">
<p class="g-credit">Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency, via
Getty Images</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Peter Cvjetanovic <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> </span></p>
<p class="g-title">Student at University of Nevada,
Reno.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“I didn’t expect those chants.
Actually<br data-owner="balance-text">
I didn’t know what I expected, to be<br
data-owner="balance-text">
honest. But with that, I did not engage<br
data-owner="balance-text">
in ‘Jews will not replace us.’ I thought<br
data-owner="balance-text">
that was really stupid to say in the<br
data-owner="balance-text">
first place. ‘Blood and soil,’ that’s<br
data-owner="balance-text">
national socialism, I didn’t participate<br
data-owner="balance-text">
in that. The only one I did participate<br
data-owner="balance-text">
in and the one I agree with is ‘one<br
data-owner="balance-text">
people one nation and immigration.’”</p>
<a
href="http://mynews4.com/news/local/university-of-nevada-reno-student-participates-in-charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally">
<p class="g-from">Aug. 14, 2017, in an interview
with local news.</p>
</a> </div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="nicholas_fuentes">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
class="g-freebird-lazy ll-init ll-notloaded"
data-pattern="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/08/16/charlottesville-people/assets/images/nicholas_fuentes-{{size}}.jpg"
data-widths="[320,640,900]"
data-ratio="0.6666666666666666">
<p class="g-credit">From Youtube video</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Nicholas Fuentes <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> Illinois</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Former Boston University student
who<br data-owner="balance-text">
hosts a conservative talk show on YouTube.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“The rootless transnational elite
knows that<br data-owner="balance-text">
a tidal wave of white identity is coming. And<br
data-owner="balance-text">
they know that once the word gets out, they<br
data-owner="balance-text">
will not be able to stop us. The fire rises!”</p>
<p class="g-from">Aug. 12, 2017, in a Facebook post.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="g-person" id="matthew_colligan">
<div class="g-img"> <img alt=""
src="https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/multimedia/ICONS/transparent.png"
class="g-freebird-lazy ll-init ll-notloaded"
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data-widths="[320,640,900]"
data-ratio="0.6861471861471862">
<p class="g-credit">From Youtube video</p>
</div>
<div class="g-text-container">
<p class="g-name">Matthew Colligan <span
class="g-from g-from-left"> Massachusetts</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Also goes by Millennial Matt. A
member of the<br data-owner="balance-text">
Proud Boys, a group of conservative nationalists.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“Name international Jewry before
it’s<br data-owner="balance-text">
too late. That’s who the globalists are.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Aug. 12, 2017, at the
Charlottesville rally.</p>
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<p class="g-credit">From Youtube video</p>
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<p class="g-name">Chris Cedeno <span class="g-from
g-from-left"> Florida</span></p>
<p class="g-title">Member of League of the South.</p>
<p class="g-quote">“I intend to stand for the South
and die<br data-owner="balance-text">
for it if need be. They will not replace us.”</p>
<p class="g-from">Aug. 12, 2017, at the
Charlottesville rally.</p>
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