On November 26, 2021, People For the American Way President Ben Jealous published the following op-ed in USA Today:
The 2017 violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, has, for the past four years, made the city shorthand for white supremacist hatred and violence. Tuesday, a Charlottesville jury delivered a resounding rebuke to the purveyors of violent racism.
It was a welcome message to the hearts and minds of Americans from the heart of the old Confederacy.