The video rolls on a sunny suburban street, and a group of black children bike toward what looks to them like a parade — there’s a small crowd, and an American flag. Suddenly, they’re swarmed by a group of white children, who hurl racial epithets and rocks. Adults gathered nearby do nothing.
The black children had bicycled straight into a white supremacist rally. CONT.
Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times
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