The Republican National Committee unanimously approved a resolution Friday denouncing white nationalist groups in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., that took place earlier this month.
“The racist beliefs of the Nazis, the KKK, white supremacists and other like-minded groups are completely inconsistent with the Republican Party’s platform that states ‘all Americans stand equal before the law’ and their racist agenda has no place in the United States,” the resolution states.
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RNC members adopted the measure at the committee’s summer meeting in Nashville, Tenn.
In addition to specifically denouncing the white nationalist groups involved in the violence in Charlottesville, the resolution also states that the “racist beliefs Nazis, the KKK, white supremacists and others are repulsive, evil and have no fruitful place in the United States.”
It goes on to note the GOP’s history and its role in leading “the fight to assure all human beings have equal standing before the law, promoting the foundational idea that each person be judged as an individual on merit and not on the color of skin or other circumstance of birth.”
The resolution makes no mention of President Trump, who was criticized by members of his party for initially failing to denounce the specific white nationalist groups who were in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Aug. 12.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in Charlottesville when a suspected Nazi sympathizer drove his car into a crowd of counter-demonstrators.
