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https://twitter.com/naomiruta/status/12 ... 84033?s=20Naomi
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Some context: My family and I were going to Stone Mountain Park today and stumbled upon this protest. A little further down the road were Trump supporters on motorcycles with MAGA flags.
Armed Black Demonstrators Challenge White Supremacist Militia in Georgia's Stone Mountain ParkNaomi
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To be able to see this happen at Stone Mountain — a monument built to honor the confederacy — on the 4th of July was extremely powerful.
bout 200 heavily armed protesters, the vast majority of whom were Black, marched through Georgia's Stone Mountain Park on Independence Day, challenging white nationalist groups in the area to either come out and fight or join them in demonstrating against the government.
Stone Mountain State Park officials said the predominately Black group of demonstrators were peaceful, orderly and escorted by police Saturday as they called for the removal of the country's largest Confederate monument near Atlanta.
Videos posted to social media show the group, which unofficially identified itself as the "Not F**king Around Coalition" (NFAC), meeting at the massive nine-story quartz sculpting that depicts Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Southern generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.