In an article about the sole casualty of the Charlottesville, Virginia riot, a 32-year-old woman killed when a car plowed into a crowd of protesters protesting the original protesters, it was revealed that her favorite color was purple. According to her boss, she wore it to work almost every day. I'm guessing the article's author included that fact to make us relate to her. She loved purple, and now she's gone.
Apparently many people have been moved by the woman's death, enough to donate to an online fund for her family that thus far has raised $200,000. Rather than being moved I am confused, wondering why a sensitive young woman who loved purple, or anyone except a police officer on duty, would willingly venture into a gathering of racist, white nationalist neo-Nazis bent on wreaking havoc, and all because of a statue of a man on a horse erected 93 years ago.
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