Armed protest in Stone Mountain, Georgia on 7/4

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Naomi
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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.
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Naomi
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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.
Armed Black Demonstrators Challenge White Supremacist Militia in Georgia's Stone Mountain Park
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.

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This is one statue that is unlikely to topple.

There are several reasons; one of which is the sheer magnitude of sculpture but also because a concession was made when removing the Confederate Battle Flag from the Georgia State Flag to include a statute that prohibits removal of the Stone Mountain sculpture.

It would certainly be possible to destroy the carvings them selves but the cost would be literally in the millions of dollars.

One lower cost alternative might be to allow all the Civil War reenactor groups to come on down and bring their 12 Pounder "Napoleons" and make it a fete. In a few weeks it should be significantly altered. Make it a regularly scheduled once a week attraction at the park and the State could very likely turn it into a long term profitable attraction.
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Stiff wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:24 pm The southern cross was removed from Georgia’s flag, but eventually replaced with a replica of the first Confederate national flag. I don’t think they’re holding to their end of the bargain.
I agree.
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Stiff wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:24 pm The southern cross was removed from Georgia’s flag, but eventually replaced with a replica of the first Confederate national flag. I don’t think they’re holding to their end of the bargain.
Which still doesn't change any of the points I mentioned.
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DispositionMatrix wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:31 am
Naomi
@naomiruta
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.
Armed Black Demonstrators Challenge White Supremacist Militia in Georgia's Stone Mountain Park
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.
Backed.

That's the power of the 2nd amendment right there.

I'm super glad to see this kind of demonstration. I wish it was getting more airplay, but the mainstream media isn't saying much about this. Maybe the DNC will get their heads out of Bloomberg's ass if these kinds of protests happen more regularly.

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sig230 wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:51 am This is one statue that is unlikely to topple.

There are several reasons; one of which is the sheer magnitude of sculpture but also because a concession was made when removing the Confederate Battle Flag from the Georgia State Flag to include a statute that prohibits removal of the Stone Mountain sculpture.

It would certainly be possible to destroy the carvings them selves but the cost would be literally in the millions of dollars.

One lower cost alternative might be to allow all the Civil War reenactor groups to come on down and bring their 12 Pounder "Napoleons" and make it a fete. In a few weeks it should be significantly altered. Make it a regularly scheduled once a week attraction at the park and the State could very likely turn it into a long term profitable attraction.
Worked for the Taliban, but they used modern weapons. The cannon used by reenactors are normally filled with chaff to make sparks. Typical reenactors don't want anything to do with smelting those lead balls.

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NFAC Grandmaster issues demands:
1-The US must carve out an autonomous zone for them somewhere.
2-The US must allow them to exodus out of the US so the NFAC can force some other country to carve out an autonomous zone for them.
3-The US must declare all descendants of slaves as political prisoners.
The NFAC don't want to talk no more, negotiate, sing songs, or bring signs to a gun fight. The NFAC is an eye for an eye organization. When the US decides to act right then the NFAC will act right. The NFAC will do it all legally.
WATCH: NFAC Protests Stone Mountain Confederate Carvings in Georgia
Roughly 100-200 members of the Not F**king Around Coalition (NFAC) celebrated July 4 by showing up to Georgia‘s Stone Mountain Park to protest the presence of carvings of Confederate soldiers, WXIA-TV reported.

The members were armed with semi-automatic and automatic weapons, dressed in all-black and delivered strong messages aimed at white nationalists groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan.

The site is tied to the resurgence of the Klan in the 1920s and political candidates, as well as the NAACP, have supported the removal of the carvings, according to Atlanta station WSB-TV.
Grand Master Jay:
https://www.instagram.com/theofficialgr ... jay/?hl=en

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CasualObserver wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 6:45 pm
lurker wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:59 pm when do you want it to start?
Who wants it to start? I don't. But if these guys aren't thinking about that, it's just dress up.
Realize that rhetoric is the challenge to engage in the only course of action male ego would allow.

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