Robin Lenhardt was quoted in Agence France Presse about a recent KKK rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
This new peak has unfolded as we “live in a period marked by an important debate about race,” says Professor Robin Lenhardt of the Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham University School of Law.
She referred to the mass incarceration of blacks, police abuses against minorities, and discrimination and other controversies that some conservatives want to silence.
The same is happening with the Confederate flag and its monuments still present in the southern states, which are under question following the racist killing perpetrated two years ago by an extremist in a black church in South Carolina.
“These monuments are milestones and efforts to commemorate an era in which the supremacy of the white race reigned,” says Professor Lenhardt, hence the nostalgic reaction to defend them.