The centuries-long struggle against racism and domestic terrorism in the United States reached another low point in Charlottesville, Virginia. On August 11, hundreds of torch-carrying protesters—exclusively white and nearly all-male—marched through the campus of the University of Virginia, deliberately invoking the imagery of America’s violently racist Jim Crow south in an attempt to intimidate their opponents. The marchers were protesting the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the commanding general for the Confederacy, whose illegal secession was founded, despite attempts to rewrite history, on the continuation of slavery…