...With Trump in the White House and racist violence permeating the culture from Ferguson to Charlottesville, debates over who has the power to speak have taken on an even greater urgency. “We haven’t seen, in the last 50 years, such alignment between white supremacist organisations and the government of the US,” said Vince Warren, a former senior staff attorney at the ACLU, who is now executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a legal advocacy organisation that does not represent white supremacists. “That alignment requires us all to have a new strategy with respect to what level of tolerance we’re going to have with white supremacist ideas.”
“We’re now battling the original sin of this country, which is slavery and the subjugation of people of colour,” Warren continued. “It’s a battle for the soul of America.” ...