'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.
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:
