From Charlottesville to direct provision, racism still persists

In President Donald Trump, they have a surrogate. It is unclear how far they may go, writes Gerard Howlin

When President John F Kennedy entertained Nobel Prize winners at dinner in 1962, he remarked: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

Regard for Jefferson runs deep in the US. He is a primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the US, but a slave owner. He is also the great claim to fame of the town of Charlottesville, Virginia. The