Roger Simon: Is Charlottesville What’s Really Going On in the USA?

This has been a tough weekend for this nation.  By now you know the basics.  James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio drove a Dodge Challenger “at a high rate of speed” into a sedan.  The sedan hit a minivan, which careened into a crowd protesting white nationalists.  The incident left a 32-year-old woman dead.  Nineteen others were injured.

Today, protests and memorials were held all over the nation.

Charlottesville out rejecting Nazi’s via @seantubbs pic.twitter.com/BvF9ipVXUs

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 13, 2017

In moments like these, it’s hard to know what to say.  But Roger Simon’s recent column in response to this horror was very true:

Being a Jewish fella, I don’t hold much brief for white supremacists and neo-Nazis.  But until this Saturday, I hadn’t seen a lot of them around lately.  And I’ve been going about the country quite a bit for the last couple of years, hitting roughly half the states, including some like Mississippi where the Klan was once riding high.

I’m happy to report that on my visit to the black-owned Two Sister’s Kitchen in the capital of that state, Jackson, blacks and whites were both equally, and contentedly in my eyes, braving the criticism of their cardiologists for what is reputed to be the best fried chicken in town.  I recommend it wholeheartedly (no pun intended).

Nevertheless, the types who surfaced in Charlottesville on Saturday are certainly human beings of the most repellent and disgusting sort, murderous too — pretty much violent, evil sociopaths.  I wouldn’t mind if they were all rounded up, put in a space ship, and sent on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri.

But how many of them are there really in this land of ours and is this an epidemic?

He goes on to break down the numbers of Ku Klux Klan members versus Antifa members.  He writes, “For the next week or two — assuming we’re not at war with North Korea — we will hear non-stop geschreiing from our media about what a racist nation we are, how we have to come together, rend our shirts, investigate this and that and endlessly discuss how bad we are until we’re finally forgiven at some undetermined point in an ever vanishing future that seems never to arrive.”

He concludes by saying:

Don’t play that game.  What happened in Charlottesville isn’t us.  It’s just a small group of real bad people.  Indict them, convict them, and lock them up for a long as possible.  The rest of us should move on.  We have a lot better things to do.

Read it all here.