"Stop hating": One year after the deadly #Charlottesville rally, Heather Heyer's mother reflects on the loss of her daughter, who was hit by a car, during what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. https://t.co/gEYZNcg01n pic.twitter.com/0fvJoZ7dKl
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 9, 2018
One year ago, a car rammed into counter-protesters during a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Activist Heather Heyer was killed.
Now, her mother is trying to fulfill a promise made at her funeral. https://t.co/NQvX9FEXz3
— NPR (@NPR) August 10, 2018
… “They tried to kill my child to shut her up,” Susan Bro told mourners last August. “Well, guess what? You just magnified her!”
Bro now spends her days in a cozy office at the law firm where her daughter worked as a paralegal. It’s the headquarters of the Heather Heyer Foundation. Near her desk is a sign with her daughter’s favorite motto — “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.”
“I think that’s what we have with Heather’s legacy, is a call to action,” says Bro…
Portraits of Heyer hang on the walls, and there’s a collection of posthumous civil rights awards. Bro resists the notion that her daughter is some sort of symbol. She didn’t make speeches, or lead rallies, Bro says, but tried to persuade those around her to care more about inequality and social justice issues. Bro has taken up her cause.
“Not only will I speak and speak loudly and often,” she says, “I’m going to make sure that other people speak.”
She compares it to a relay race.
“They knocked the baton out of her hand. Well, I picked it up and I’m not only running with that baton but I’m passing off little batons to as many people as I can,” says Bro…She says the blame belongs to “all of us — for allowing the hate to build up in the first place.”
Now her focus is on stopping hate.
“I’ve had to acknowledge that her death had meaning to the world,” says Bro. “I refuse to give her up without making something out of it — not wasting that precious life.”
The events last year hit a nerve in the community, she says, exposing racial tensions.
“The black community and the people of color in Charlottesville have been battling this for many years,” says Bro. “But a white girl dies and suddenly everybody goes, ‘Oh my God we’ve got a problem.’ “…
Timothy Bella, at the Atlantic, “Every Day Is August 12 in Charlottesville”:
Corey Long remembers reaching quickly for the aerosol can thrown forcefully in his direction. A man carrying a Confederate flag was yelling, and moving uncomfortably close to him. He began spraying the can, and used a lighter to turn it into a improvised flamethrower.
“I was just pretty much trying to back them up, but they just kept coming,” he said. The moment was immortalized in a photograph, which quickly spread across the internet and the world.
Nearly one year later, Long is reflecting on the altercation as he’s preparing steak, asparagus, and salad for a recent Thursday dinner at his Virginia home. He is still healing. Cooking keeps him distracted while talking about the events that unexpectedly turned him into a symbol against white supremacy…
The United States has not been the same since August 12, 2017. That day, a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville followed a night in which white nationalists stormed through the University of Virginia’s campus wielding tiki torches and chanting hateful slogans. The day’s ugliness remains horrific: the death of Heather Heyer; a car maliciously plowing into dozens of people protesting against white supremacy; DeAndre Harris getting brutally beaten seemingly within an inch of his life. What took place in Charlottesville was not just the bloodiest battle in the fight over the future of Confederate monuments in America, but also a historically disheartening day in the nation’s long struggle to overcome hatred and racism. And Charlottesville, even after almost every official in power during “Unite the Right” has resigned or retired, continues to process the fallout.
“Every day has been August 12 in some ways,” says longtime Charlottesville resident and local clergy leader Reverend Seth Wispelwey of United Church of Christ. “Things are still pretty raw.”…
eclare
Good morning, everybody.
Raven
I’m on my way to the boat. It’s really cloudy and rain in the forecast but they say they’re going to go. It’s really pretty here in North Kingston.
JPL
@Raven: Have fun!
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
@Raven:
Have a safe trip ?
NotMax
@Raven
Curious as to whether you carry the fish back with you on the plane.
Nicole
Morning, all. I’m on my way from NYC to Lancaster to a funeral. Elderly relative and not unexpected , but still sad.
Gadzooks, Amtrak trains are cold.
Elizabelle
Well that’s something about the 29 year old airline ground employee who stole a Horizon Air turboprop last night, did a barrel roll, and eventually crashed it on a barely inhabited island to the southwest of Sea Tac in Puget Sound. Seattle Times link.
Sort of a DB Cooper exploit, with a more pronounced ending.
Thoughtful David
@Raven:
“rain in the forecast but they say they’re going to go”
I know. I mean, what happens if it rains and the fish get wet?
Oh.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
@eclare: Good morning.
@Raven: Enjoy!
@Nicole: My condolences.
ThresherK
@Raven: If you want a good seafood shack, try Champlin’s in Narragansett. (Unless, of course, you’re cooking some of your catch for dinner, which sounds like you.)
eclare
@Elizabelle: OMG that is awful. So young.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Well, hello you.
lahke
Spent 3 hours unpacking my parents’ china that was sent to me via FedEx. Expensive, but those folks know how to pack. I’ve favored them ever since I needed to ship a telescope and they had a telescope box.
So does anyone in the Boston area need VAST amounts of bubble wrap?
Elizabelle
@eclare: I know. I wonder what set him off.
Amazing last hour. Flying around at sunset. A memorable exit.
ThresherK
@lahke: You can always go out with a statement (and a bang) by trying to wrap the next Sovereign Citizen you see in a few layers of it. Lord knows their feelings need the protection.
JPL
@Elizabelle: Earlier I listened to the audio of the Air Traffic controller that tried to keep the person calm, and help him land the plane. It was such a sad event, but who knew how easy it was to steal a plane. The person was clear that he did not want to harm anyone else though.
Steeplejack
@eclare, @rikyrah:
Good morning! ☕
OzarkHillbilly
@Elizabelle: If you gotta go…
Baud
@Elizabelle: Hi there. We seem to keep missing each other.
Raven
@NotMax: this is strictly sport, just like Maui!
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: Tight lines.
NotMax
Posted in wrong thread, so repeating in this one.
Economic jitters? You betcha.
#1
#2
Elizabelle
@Raven: Good day on the water, Raven. Photos.
OzarkHillbilly
Huh. Got tossed from the website by a “Database error” after submitting my comment @ #22 and was not able to get back to this thread.
Elizabelle
@Baud: The blog is not helping this morning. But: name stays. That’s good.
Gonna go out and canvass today. A bit overcast and coolish. Luck with the weather, so far.
donnah
Christopher Robin, Pooh, and friends are all finished! I’ll be taking the rug to a major rug hooking event next week, looking forward to seeing it in the exhibit. Wish me luck!
https://imgur.com/gallery/PPeXdYd
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’ve been getting that intermitantly since last night. Now it’s slow, or simply won’t load.
Kind of how I’m feeling this morning ?
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: You are back now. The blog has been a tad wonky for the last few hours.
OzarkHillbilly
Heh, only in LA?:
The article ends appropriately enough with
Elizabelle
@donnah: Beautiful work. It will be popular.
OzarkHillbilly
@MagdaInBlack: I noticed that too.
@JPL: Damn right I’m back. You people don’t get rid of me that easily.
NotMax
Something lighter to kick off a weekend.
And yes, blog’s page loading is currently slower than molasses on Pluto.
OzarkHillbilly
@donnah: Nice.
Baud
Is our pundits learning?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-slams-fox-news-laura-ingraham-over-racist-rant-shes-not-a-good-person
Amir Khalid
@Elizabelle:
Nym and email disappear if you don’t comment for a while.
HinTN
@OzarkHillbilly: Had that when I first attempted to get here this AM. Now the site is really slow…
Also too, good morning all and fine fishing to Raven.
MagdaInBlack
I stumbled upon a site: Mcmansionhell.com : that really tears up Ms DeVoss summer home. I enjoyed it, I’m petty that way.
I am unable to post the address, but you’re all good googlers.
The whole site is pretty entertaining, if you’re a mcmansion hater like me, or at all interested in architectural fail.
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid: That be true.
Ciao for now. Just getting a few scattered raindrops …
Betty Cracker
The passive voice in the tweets above infuriates me:
It wasn’t the fucking car. It was a goddamned Nazi. I can understand the reluctance to say his name since he probably gets off on the fame. But I wish the tweets would make it clear that Heyer as murdered by white supremacist scum.
The Midnight Lurker
Pouring rain here in North Texas. Getting out my galoshes to go canvass in an couple of hours. People will be indoors today – target rich environment. Oh, hell… why do I bother posting this. Half you people are probably hoping I’ll drown. VOTE THE BUMS OUT IN NOVEMBER!!!!
Kayla Rudbek
Good morning fellow jackals! I’m trying to decide whether to go lap swimming or whether I should plunge into starting to clean out the basement and throw out water-damaged books. We have far too many books for the size of this townhouse, so I’m going to have to donate a bunch to the local library.
I have lived through the great shift from cassette tapes to CDs to mp3, so I am a bit hesitant about converting the entire library to ebooks. However we’re not getting any younger and moving physical books is tough, and we’re not planning on moving to a larger house any time in the near future. I figure that I will start the donation pile with books that I can readily get at the library or by ebook.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Taling to the flight controller, the guy acknowledged he had a few screws loose.
Mary G
@donnah: So beautiful! That is one lucky library. Thanks for letting us see it in progress.
MomSense
@The Midnight Lurker:
Don’t forget to hydrate!!
Matt McIrvin
@NotMax: I get a bit nervous about mainstream-media portrayals of flat-earthers as harmless kooks: with the ones online, if you poke around the stuff they post/link/retweet it usually doesn’t take long to get to the Nazi/antisemitic shit.
debbie
@donnah:
Love it! Please remind me what the size is.
donnah
@Mary G:
Thanks, Mary G and all. I usually start and complete a rug in a much shorter timeframe, like a few months. But a busy schedule kept me from working on it as often as usual, so it took a year to finish.
After the show, it goes with me on my teaching tour, then off to our local library, donated in my dad’s name. I don’t know what my next project will be yet, but it’s always fun to start a new one.
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
It’s the verb more than the passive tense. Murder, not hit. “Was murdered by car” works for me.
ETA: I’m beginning to believe the bad in Twitter outweighs the good.
MomSense
@donnah:
That is so beautiful. It gives me all the feels.
Steeplejack (phone)
@donnah:
Beautiful! It will be an inspiration at the library.
Miss Bianca
@donnah: oh, that is so beautiful. I’m a little teary looking at it! Altho maybe it’s just lack of sleep – woke up at oh-dark-forty to the sound of Watson gently upchucking at the foot of the bed. Gonna go riding in the Hundred-Acre Wood now that I’m up.
debbie
Nothing’s fiercer than an angry mother, but I’m not sure she’ll make much of a dent. NPR also interviewed Jason Kessler last week. How do you fight against an asshole who insists white supremacy is no different than civil rights?
OzarkHillbilly
@MagdaInBlack: My parents nondescript middle class ranch home on a nice sized lot with beautiful mature trees was torn down about 30 seconds after the papers were signed and the most gawdawful monstrosity of modern architecture was raised in it’s place with over twice the footprint, no back yard, and nary a tree to be seen. We had been watching those monuments to the nouveau riche taking over their neighborhood like weeds for about a decade so it was not surprising, but still disgusting..
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I agree with the idea to not focus on the shooter in murder/suicide juvenile cases, because I think the fame might be appealing to other kids who are extraordinarily messed up, but partly that’s because of the suicide part. There won’t be trials in those cases.
But THIS one I think they should focus on the criminal charges. If the federal case goes forward the “hate” aspect will be front and center.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: There are many ways but I won’t say, because if I do I will be accused of incitement to murder.
donnah
@debbie:
Debbie, the rug measures 30” by 43”
I hope it also gets a warm reception at the rug show!
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin:
The horror, to be judgemental.
MomSense
I spent four hours cleaning my kitchen last night. It all started when I noticed some crumbs and grease in that stupid drawer that pulls out from under the oven on the stove. Next thing I know I’m half inside the upper corner cupboard. I do clean my kitchen regularly – every GD day and yet it was sooo gross.
Anyway it’s now off limits forever. We are just going to do takeout from now on.
debbie
@donnah:
Wow! It is totally perfect for a library!
WereBear
@donnah: That is lovely!
OldDave
@donnah: Beautiful. Just beautiful.
WereBear
@MomSense: A good plan.
WereBear
Lately my weekends need to be totally unplugged from obligations — it really seems to help. Don’t know if I can manage that now — my newsletter needs writing, my taxes need wrapping up, and I’m still laboring on the print version of my book because there ain’t no easy way, durn it.
Having standards. Something Republicans should look at again…
chris
@MagdaInBlack: Thanks, that site is hilarious. Here’s another one for you : Terrible real estate agent photos
HRA
Test gd it
rikyrah
David Frum (@davidfrum) Tweeted:
Anybody else think it’s strange that the president is reduced to tweeting cable TV show hosts as anti-collusion character witnesses? No former intel directors, no Russia experts, nobody eminent in national security at all – certainly nobody across aisle. The silence is eloquent. https://t.co/1J2xiYO82z https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1027886610648457216?s=17
rikyrah
@donnah:
That is beautiful. After you exhibit it, are you thinking about selling it?
chris
@debbie:
Good point, Dave. But Dave’s not talking about the Kessler interview, he’s pointing out this NYMAG horror with Steve Bannon. It’s beyond awful, I couldn’t do more than skim.
Heidi Mom
@donnah: So lovely! It makes me want to read the Winnie the Pooh stories, which I’ve never done.
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Teardowns” …… Drop 3-5 hundred k for the house and lot, knock it down, drop 7 hundred k on the monstrosity. It just disgusts me.
@chris:
I had forgotten about that site. Thank you.
There should also be one (and probably is ) for ” please be aware of the background in your ‘hot stud trolling” photos. (Yes, a friend and I amuse ourselves reading Craigslist singles ads)
Villago Delenda Est
@debbie: You don’t. You put his head on a pike and move on.
JPL
@donnah: It is beautiful, and I’m sure the library will appreciate it.
Platonailedit
Didn’t npr give platform for some racist nazi asshole just this week to spew his bigoted venom unchallenged? Now the hypocrites are shedding crocodile tears over a murder by the same nazis?
donnah
@rikyrah:
I’m donating it to our newly renovated library downtown. :-)
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
My dad had a beautiful federal – unspoiled with original 9 over 6 windows – the works. It had a beautiful barn and was set so perfectly on the land. Someone with more money than sense bought it and added a bunch of garish bullshit onto it. I drove by it once and looked in horror at it. The few times I have gone past it since, I avoid looking at it.
A Ghost To Most
@donnah: Beautiful work!
BellyCat
@donnah: Serious WOW!
Aleta
@donnah: Incredible art; incredibly generous. I had just been thinking it would be nice if it could travel as an exhibit to various libraries. My cousin makes miniature seascapes (for private clients) that usually tour to libraries for a year or so before they are taken home.
Aleta
@MomSense: A great aunt had a huge historic Victorian on the NJ shore which she filled with friends and relatives all summer. Many prospective buyers, but it was sold at a reduced price to the one who promised they would not tear it down. They tore it down immediately.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I don’t know the Maine Beacon, but…. good
Jay
C&L’s reporting that Rep. Collin’s has dropped his campaign.
sukabi
@Jay: yep. Guess “spending time with your lawyers” is the new “time with the family”.
He went from “I’m not talking about it, and still running” to “concentrating on my legal defense” rather quickly…it almost makes you think there’s more than what’s out publicly. ?
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
Who else would vouch for him? I’m as appalled as you but I can’t say I’m surprised at all.
hueyplong
I know there are site problems but, man, I’d like a separate thread on which to dance on Rep. Collins’ career grave.
Especially schadenfreudelicious coming a mere 3 days after he declared that he’s absolutely running for reelection.
Best I can tell, he’s just “suspending” for now because there is an issue as to whether the GOP can put another name forward at this point on the calendar.
Thoughts and prayers, motherfucker.
Jay
@sukabi:
Yup, there’s another two ReThug Senators in Texas who’s probably gonna spend time in the barrel over the same insider trades.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/08/08/culberson-conaway-also-bought-shares-australian-drug-firm-heart-rep-chris-collins-insider-trading-charges
A Ghost To Most
@hueyplong:
All damn day.
Steve in the ATL
@eclare: “Good morning, everybody.”
Rikyrah says “Off my corner, ho!”
Steve in the ATL says “The hell you doing you up that early on a Saturday?”
Jay
@hueyplong:
Better than same effect, either way, ReThugs getting another nym on the ballot, or Collins being “stuck”, this close to the midterms, either Campaign is wounded badly.
Taint sticks.
Jay
And now an Oakie from Miscokie,
“OUCH!!! … OKLAHOMA REP. MARKWAYNE MULLIN (R) filed his financial disclosure form yesterday, revealing that he took a massive loss on Innate Immunotherapeutics stock — the same stock that got REP. CHRIS COLLINS (R-N.Y.) in trouble. Mullin bought between $100,000 and $250,000 of stock in January. It’s now worth between $1,000 and $15,000. Mullin also just settled an ethics case, in which he had to repay $40,000 to a company he was once affiliated with.”
Platonailedit
Hacking the US mid-terms? It’s child’s play.
opiejeanne
@Elizabelle: The mechanic who took the Horizon plane for a joy ride did a loop, not a barrel roll.
opiejeanne
@Elizabelle: Yes, he set the whole damned island on fire, what a glorious ending. Sorry, cranky this morning.
It’s not a big place, only a dozen cabins, and they still don’t know if anyone else died.
MomSense
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
It’s an online publication put out by the Maine People’s Alliance (disclaimer: I’ve been a member forever). We do grassroots organizing on health care, immigration, racial justice, housing, and all the other good things.
A Ghost To Most
@Jay:
Muskogee, or is he a cokehead?
JPL
@opiejeanne: Have you heard anything else about him. From the tapes his name appears to be Rick or Rich and he mentioned that he was white. The air traffic controller did an amazing job, although I’m sure he would prefer a different outcome.
JPL
@opiejeanne: I hadn’t heard that, and let us hope not.
Mnemosyne
@opiejeanne:
The more I read of the conversation between him and air traffic control, the more he sounds like someone with bipolar disorder in the throes of a manic episode. IIRC, people with untreated bipolar disorder are more likely to commit suicide during a manic phase, because they have the energy to do it and the mania makes them impulsive. Very sad.
Steve in the ATL
@opiejeanne: still not impressed. Wake me up when a mechanic does an Immelmann turn.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Damn, I hadn’t heard that part
Jay
@opiejeanne:
King5 news, an hour ago has footage of the crash site. Only the crash site was set on fire and County Fire has the fire out with only shome hot spots remaining.
Shana
@lahke: Try a preschool. Kidding, kind of.
Shana
@NotMax: Hey, how did it go with your mom’s Kindle? That was you wasn’t it?
Shana
@MomSense: And no laundry, EVER. Right?
Emma
@donnah: Beautiful!
James E Powell
@hueyplong:
Question is, what if he just rides it out through election day? What are the chances he loses? Republican voters have already shown that they are completely comfortable with criminals, so long as they hate the right people.
Fair Economist
@donnah: Fantastic job, donnah!
hueyplong
@James E Powell: I imagine your scenario is possible.
More things will happen between now and election day, and we might reasonably hope that the trend will be in our direction.
NotMax
@Shana
Thanks for asking. Better than could have been expected. In fact, swimmingly. She’s now a believer.
Final test was when she drove me to JFK for the flight home and, halfway there, mentioned she was sorry she didn’t remember to bring it along as she was planning to stop someplace for breakfast on her way back and could have used it there.
Steeplejack (phone)
@opiejeanne:
No, the whole damned island is not on fire.
Video here.
Jay
@James E Powell:
Cook had NY-27 at +11 for Collins, just before his arrest.
Booman’s done the math and a scandal, any scandal averages -12 for the Campaign.
So Cook’s next update will probable change the race to a toss up.
Kathleen
@donnah: That is exquisite and evokes so much love an warmth. It’s a beautiful gift not only to the library but much needed lift to the ethers!
WaterGirl
@donnah: I teared up just now when I saw the finished product. Just lovely! Amazing, really.
You are a better person than me. If I created something that beautiful, I doubt I could let it go. Bless the artists who are able to share their wonderful work with the world.
Kathleen
@Baud: Maher has been on fire the past two weeks (I only watch when I like his guests). Did you see guest historian/author Nancy MacLean last week? The discussion about the material in her latest book was chilling.
https://history.duke.edu/people/nancy-maclean
Kathleen
@MomSense: Cincinnati is lovely this time of year just in case you have the energy to help a fellow Juicer out!
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
There was a place like this in Topanga as well, not quite as big or flashy but similar stories were told about it and all you could see was a shitty old gate at the base. I thought it might be this place your story was about but no.
There are more than just the one crazy story in LA.
Ruckus
@Matt McIrvin:
You’d have to figure that if you believe in a flat earth in the 21st century you probably really want to go back maybe 1500-1800 yrs with everything. And still keep the stuff you like of course. But the first thing is that there would be no people that don’t look like you. That’s a first principle here. Flat earth is just another way to say it. Like knowing the earth is not flat, we use the word, racist.
MomSense
@Kathleen:
Oh god I moved on to the bathroom today. If I ever meet the man (and I’m sure it is a man) who started the practice of putting the baseboard heater on the wall next to the toilet, I may do things that get me sent to The Hague.
Also WTF with the design of the thing with the handle that brings water to the toilet. It is impossible to clean and it should either be invisible and impervious to odor or a fucking smooth surface that can be cleaned without extraordinary measures. I look like a side show circus act trying to get all in that space behind the toilet. It’s not a nice place to be.
If anyone IRL asks me what I’ve done today I’m going to tell them hot contortionist yoga.
donnah
Thank you all for your kind comments. I make a lot of hooked rugs; it’s my passion and my vocation. I love making hooked rugs that have special messages and meanings. I’ve hooked rugs about Alzheimers, about elephants becoming extinct, about a World War One veteran…whatever strikes a chord in me.
I also hook rugs that are fun, something different like Steampunk-themed rugs, portraits of my sons, a portrait of my mom holding me when I was a baby. I’m lucky to be an artist, and I enjoy using my talent in a medium that most people know nothing about.
Thanks again everyone!
zhena gogolia
@donnah:
Wow, that is superb.
chris
@MomSense: In my dream house the bathroom is a single piece of moulded fibreglass lifted into the building with a crane. Yacht quality finish and nonskid floor; drain in the middle and a built in power washer. Bidet is extra.
Don’t get me started on the guy who designed the basic toilet with all its nooks and crannies. Grr.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Sending you a plane ticket to Illinois. What season of the year would you like to come? :-)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Jay: Hard choice for the Economically Anxious Voter I would say, the incumbent is involved in a massive stock fraud, but the challenger is a liberal who supports radical stuff like Telamunda.being allowed on the TV.
SWMBO
@MomSense: I think it was the 25th anniversary show of Laugh In that they asked Ruth Buzzi what she had done in the intervening years. “Cleaning toilets.” She said she would go into a bathroom and see how dirty it was and she was afraid that the next person to come in would recognize her. She didn’t want anyone to think she would leave it like that so she would clean it. Twenty five years of cleaning toilets.
oaguabonita
@Betty Cracker: I opened this comment thread to say what you said. Now no need.