Statement on Charlottesville

On Saturday, rallies against taking down Confederate monuments boiled over when white supremacists and neo-nazis got in on it, yelling racist chants and holding tiki torches. It sparked so much outrage that people started to protest them. Things escalated into a terrorist attack in which James Alex Fields Jr. Drove his car into a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters, killed one, and injured many others.

As the President seems a bit...confused on who is to blame for the events in Charlottesville, let's clear it up for him.

The white supremacists and neo-nazis are to blame. Shocker.

These people incited the violent speech that they should be the master race in the country, the only race, but expected that their hate be tolerated by the country, a nation of immigrants. Unfortunately for them, that's not how it works. Their hate was met with fierce condemnation from across the political spectrum.

As it should be. This country was founded, built by, and inhabited by immigrants. We are often referred to as "the world's melting pot". For them to take these positions is nowhere near patriotic or having a love for America. It is 100% against the values that America was founded on. It is one of the most unpatriotic stances that can be taken. America was made great by the determination of immigrants to make this country their country. If you don't like it, you may leave.

Every great mind in America came here one way or another, whether it be with the earliest settlers, such as the various Native American tribes, or here from Europe, or here from Africa (albeit forcefully), or more recently such as those who fled their war-torn nations or the Irish who came here to look for a better future.

We're all immigrants, and we're what make this country great.

We must continue to accept the tired, the poor, the huddled masses, because that's what made us great in the past. If making America great again is the intended goal, then these people have missed the mark.