And then once you get those consequences … people have to take a second look at their actions, and they have to be afraid to do the types of violence that we saw last week," Hannah-Jones suggested.
"What has long been the case in this country, is that we have wanted to quickly move on to reconciliation.
We've always been afraid that if you actually punish those kind of white nationalist elements in our society, it will only make things worse.
But, in fact, what history shows is not reacting, not forcing accountability, only emboldens those people and those movements."
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