What was the purpose of the gathering in Lee Park? The purpose could not be to protect a statue from being taken down because the statue was not being taken down at that time. If the Lee statue is part of "white heritage" then a white man or woman must claim that inheritance. The statue is a physical object; the statue can have a proprietor; a man or woman must come forward and claim the property. America has the greatest law if only we perfect it when opportunity arises. If the purpose was to unify people of common ideas and perceptions, then gathering in a park at a urban area was of no value and made it possible for those of contrary ideas and perceptions to attack them. It was foolish for the organizers of the event to beg their public servants of the Public courts for permission to gather and talk to make unclear public displays of dissatisfaction with their fellow whites in the park. Why bother with this Public show anyway?
Was the gathering any success? No, a few men and women died, and many men and women were injured. The causes and concerns of the peaceful gatherers is unheard, and worse, the peaceful gatherers are being misidentified as all violent people.
We have to be smarter than this. Protests are a waste of time. The time and energy of thousands can better be used in private exchanges and private gatherings on private property where that can be protected with private security that even the Public police cannot lawful have unwanted intercourse with. We don't need to ask permission from some condescending servant on a bench to gather, talk to each other, to plan and socialize. Instead of making collaboration between whites a dreaded piece of work (like a protest) we can turn it into a picnic. If we don't like what our public servants are doing to our public property, then thousands making separate claims, separate suits, getting separate orders, and separate judgments and injunctions will put our public servants in their place and restore our property.
At the very least, Americans of European descent need to have families together while keeping to their stem families, we need to work together, exchange with one another, trade with one another, support each other, and socialize together -and, yes, sometimes at the exclusion of others (but not hating and fighting with others). We can do all of this without interference from anyone as there isn't anything we can't do with the simple provision that we cause no harm to our fellow man. We have only proved this for thousands of years.
Paul Ryan 
Erick Erickson 
