Outside the silent crowd at Union Square, a man was handing out a flyer that reads: "This Nightmare Must End." Identifying himself as Barry Thornton, he said that there is a rallying of fascists and white supremacists in the country, and that those who do not want a fascist future should "come together, take to the street and say we will not stand for a fascist America."
After the vigil, several people spoke to the crowd, including Maya Peri, a second-year student at the University of Virginia, which is located in Charlottesville.
Now paying a summer vacation visit to her parents, who live in San Francisco, Peri choked to speak about what happened at the university town, but managed to remind the audience that most people there are nice, unlike the ones who staged the white nationalist rally and turned violent against protesters,
The event ended with the crowd singing a song titled This Land is Your Land, one of the most famous folk songs in the United States, to deliver an inclusive message that is carried by the first as well as last lines of the lyrics: "This land is your land, this land is my land ... This land was made for you and me."
Asked what is her message for schoolmates in Charlottesville, Peri said she would encourage people "to seek different creative solutions to this disgusting problem of anti-Semitism and racism that plagued our institution" and "to hear other one's perspective on it and try new things, so we will be coming together to solidify, as opposed to sticking to ourselves and becoming insular."
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