'We're Not Them' — Condemning Charlottesville And Condoning White Resentment
A scholar and a journalist offer context and analysis on the events in Charlottesville and the politics of white anger.
by Gene Demby
Aug 17, 2017
3 minutes
As we struggled this week to make sense of what happened in Charlottesville, Va., some big questions bubbled up:
What lessons does history teach about white resentment in the United States? How is the experience of other countries and other times — like Germany — relevant? How are those in power reacting to President Trump's shifting response?
We reached out to Carol Anderson and Jamelle Bouie for our podcast this week. Anderson is a professor of African-American studies at Emory University and the author of Bouie is the chief political correspondent for . He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville. Here's an edited version of our conversation:
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