Let’s get straight to the point—it’s a scary time in the United States. First, let’s discuss Charlottesville. It began on August 11th, a quiet Friday night. In the minds of the gathered white supremacists and nationalists, it would become everything but.

  It transformed into a night filled with hostility, bigotry and ignorance. The protesters paraded the streets with lit torches, matching the burning hatred inside them. Phrases like “F— you, n—–!”,  “Jews will not replace us!”,  and “White lives matter!” were shouted into the quiet, eerie night.

 Counter-protesters joined the scene, causing chaos. Push came to shove, literally, and it soon became physical between the two sides. It took several minutes for law enforcement to intervene.  

  This was only the first night.

  The next day, Emancipation Park would be the new location for mayhem to unfold. This time, Nazis, militias, and the KKK showed up with heavy duty shields, automatic rifles and pistols. Sporadic violence continued throughout the day and ended with a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer, killed when a Nazi-driven car plowed into her and a crowd of peaceful protesters.

  Despite all of this, our well-respected President Trump so eloquently orates, “…you know, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also.” The aftermath sparked controversy all over the country. The Charlottesville incident became just one of the many focal points regarding racial disarray within America.

  Ask yourself this Trump supporters, do you support Nazis and the KKK? Do you support the hatred, bias and inequality of another human being based solely on their skin color? You may not directly support these opinions, but by supporting Trump, you’re doing it indirectly. Trump did not and still has not verbally condemned the actions of the hate groups in Charlottesville, but had much to say on a man protesting his rights.

  As you know, Colin Kaepernick, once a well-respected Quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, and now a free agent, took a knee during the National Anthem to protest the oppression of people of color in America today. For clarification, Kaepernick is not kneeling in opposition to the U.S. military and law enforcement, which was a preconception in the early stages of Kaepernick’s protest.

  This resulted in tremendous backlash from the football community as well as those outside of the NFL realm such as Donald Trump, who uttered controversial statements that seemed to divide the country more than anything else. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he’s fired. He’s fired,’ ” he said.

  He followed up with this tweet the next morning, “If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL, or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect…our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU’RE FIRED. Find something else to do!”

  In essence, Mr. Trump is attempting to deny Kaepernick’s freedom of speech, which is his first amendment right (Trump knows plenty about that, but we won’t get into it). Kaepernick and the tragedy of Charlottesville are only a fraction of the racial issues existing in America, which President Trump never seems to properly address. If he wanted change, he would speak on the wrongdoings of neo-nazis or police brutality and oppression against minorities who don’t resist arrest.

 Well, why would he? He liked how America was in 1841 – in Alabama. He wants to “Make America Great Again”. It’s just another day in AmeriKKKa.