Posted on 07/05/2020 6:01:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A predominantly Black group of heavily armed protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta on Saturday, calling for removal of the giant Confederate rock carving at the site that civil rights activists consider a monument to racism.
Video footage of the Independence Day rally posted on social media showed scores of demonstrators dressed in black - many in paramilitary-style clothing and all wearing face scarves - quietly parading several abreast down a sidewalk at the park.
The protesters all carried rifles, including military-type weapons, and some wore ammunition belts slung over their shoulders. Although African Americans appeared to account for the bulk of the marchers, protesters of various races, men and women alike, were among the group.
One video clip showed a leader of the demonstrators, who was not identified, shouting into a loudspeaker in a challenge to white supremacists who historically have used Stone Mountain as a rallying spot of their own.
“I don’t see no white militia,” he declared. “We’re here. Where ... you at? We’re in your house. Let’s go.”
Nine stories high and spanning the length of a football field, the bas-relief Stone Mountain sculpture carved into a granite wall overlooking the Georgia countryside some 25 miles (40 km) east of Atlanta remains the largest such monument to America’s Civil War Confederacy.
It features the likenesses of Jefferson Davis, who was president of the 11-state Confederacy, and two of his legendary generals, Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
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Trying to start something. This entire thing is spiraling out of control and Democrat leaders are inciting it. How foolish.
Imagine the press coverage if races reversed outside the African American museum.
Get’s me to thinking “Take the high ground!”.
Love to find pics of this group that shows other than black males marching with them.
Where are the elected Democrats?
It must be terrible to shout at monuments and live with a constant inferiority complex.
Armed Michigan protesters who protested the lockdown were called “violent” because the had guns.
>>Get’s me to thinking “Take the high ground!”.<<
I have to admit, impressive armed showing. They must also realize, they are only about 14% of the population.
“The protesters all carried rifles, including military-type weapons, and some wore ammunition belts slung over their shoulders. Although African Americans appeared to account for the bulk of the marchers, protesters of various races, men and women alike, were among the group.”
The Second Amendment secures the First Amendment. I LOVE it when all Americans embrace it.
I also LOVE Ronald Reagan. However, he is the one that furthered California’s gun control laws. The Black Panthers would have their marches with firearms. Reagan thought that was crazy, so as Governor, called for laws on open-carry of firearms.
Even at the CHAZ in Seattle I supported them. Of course, the hazard of open-carry by everyone; and no rule of law in the CHAZ, resulted in the killing of several people that may or may not have been justified.
Nationwide yes, but where Stone Mountain is located their numbers are higher. In Dekalb county blacks are 54.3% of the population so they’d have an advantage there.
‘They must also realize, they are only about 14% of the population.’
you forget that government at any level would come down on their side in any type of violent conflict which might arise...republican or democrat...
‘Gods and Generals’...
Trying? It’s already started.
Aim small, miss small. ;)
“I don’t see no white militia,” he declared. “We’re here. Where ... you at? We’re in your house. Let’s go.”
I dont see you going to any “white militia” rally with your guns, Mr. Armchair General.
“I have to admit, impressive armed showing. They must also realize, they are only about 14% of the population.”
Based on FBI statistics a large percentage of those individuals are likely to be felons in possession of a firearm.
“Nationwide yes, but where Stone Mountain is located their numbers are higher. In Dekalb county blacks are 54.3% of the population so they’d have an advantage there.”
I read somewhere that one of them said he was from chicago. So in spite of the percentage locally, they still imported outside agitators to beef up their numbers.
If they were really expecting a challenge they wouldn't be presenting such an easy target....like the British.
True.
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