Distractions

Recently we've seen all sorts of people react/overreact to the events in Virginia.  There have been plenty of voices from all sides of the debate denouncing the racists/NAZI'S/KKK members who marched and engaged in violent clashes with counter protesters.

Clearly and unequivocally we live in a country where the constitution provides the highest level of protection for even the most repugnant and hateful speech, as well as allowing such speech to take place in public.  Just as clearly the ideas voiced by these vermin are repugnant and hateful in the extreme.

But, one theme that has emerged is that there is an increasing direct threat specifically to people of color, but to the republic itself from this "movement", so what about this movement.

From the ADL (One suspects an organization dedicated to defending Jews wouldn't be pro NAZI)

"A variety of white supremacists, self-identified white nationalists and others on the extreme right are gearing up for the “Unite the Right” rally on August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event has the potential to be the largest public gathering of white supremacists in at least a decade; ADL predicts as many as 500 Unite the Right supporters could show up."

So at the "largest gathering of white supremacists in a decade', they expected 500 people to show up.

Again from the ADL

"
The rally, which is scheduled for noon to 5 pm, will likely be the largest public rally by white supremacists in 10 to 15 years. Over the past decade, “successful” public white supremacist events have drawn 50 to 75 participants. Most have been much smaller. The largest events rarely surpass 100 attendees, even with the participation of multiple groups.
Sizable public gatherings of white supremacists in recent years include an event in April 2017, when about 125 white supremacists, including contingents from the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) and the Traditionalist Workers Party, gathered in Pikeville, Kentucky, to celebrate “white identity” and recruit new members. Two years prior, in July 2015, approximately 125 white supremacists, including members of NSM and several Klan groups, rallied in Columbia, South Carolina, to protest state legislators’ plans to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds in Columbia. The lawmakers’ decision came on the heels of white supremacist Dylann Roof’s deadly mass shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church."

So far, we see a small yet vile group  of protesters.

So, my question is, "Is this spurt of public racism really the greatest threat to people of color in the United States?"

Or, "Is it simply a distraction designed to give people of color a scapegoat to be angry at and divert attention from other things?"

For example.

 http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/03/24/10-of-the-most-segregated-cities-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=kw&kwp_0=341133

Is there any connection between the "most segregated cities" and the political leanings and leadership of those cities?

http://homicides.suntimes.com/

Is there any connection between the fact that Chicago has been controlled by one political party for decades, and the need for the "murder watch" in the local paper?

 https://www.facebook.com/ATenAfrikaanRa/posts/304241019909931

How about this from a friend of mine whose brother was shot recently?  Right in the middle of Clinton Country.

 http://theweek.com/speedreads/718507/striking-graphic-reveals-construction-confederate-monuments-peaked-during-jim-crow-civil-rights-eras

Or how about a discussion of which political party raised all these offensive statues in the first place.

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/larry-elder-fatherless-families-are-no-1-problem-america-not-racism

Or how about the decline in the intact black family.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/03/07/graduation-gap-by-the-numbers

Or how about the "graduation gap" in one of the most liberal metropolitan areas in the country?

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/08/22/minnesota-racial-inequality/

Or how about one of the most liberal states in the country being the second worst for racial inequality.  Oh and #1 is a state which has historically leaned left, and whose urban areas (where people of color live) are still far left.

So, are 500 crazy racists in VA really the greatest threat to people of color?  Really?