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Predominantly Black armed protesters march through Confederate memorial park in Georgia
Reuters ^ | 07 05 2020 | Steve Gorman

Posted on 07/05/2020 12:29:00 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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.

Many of the protesters carried rifles, including military-type weapons, and some wore ammunition belts slung over their shoulders. Although African Americans appeared to account for the vast majority 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.”

SNIP

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: banglist; confederate; georgia; monument; stonemountain
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To: dp0622

That was my thinking. After 150 years of emancipation from slavery, the free government education, trillions in welfare, all the breaks of AA, and they are still are illiterate in reading and speech.


61 posted on 07/05/2020 2:18:50 PM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: wardaddy
I'm a Northerner and I accept American history.

It happened. It's part of who we are. We can't change it.

I don't appreciate anyone throwing the South under the bus simply because it's the current fashion or they believe denouncing American history and the South will placate the mob and save them from said mob.

Confederates fought for what they believed as did colonists who fought in the Revolution. The victor writes history.

Groveling and apologizing won't sate the blood-lust for the destruction of America.

62 posted on 07/05/2020 2:18:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: dp0622

A favorite: an attorney, black female, Harvard educated, was on the TODAY Show. She said “‘posta” when she meant “supposed to.” I couldn’t believe it.


63 posted on 07/05/2020 2:19:05 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: PGR88

Probably because “white militia” only exists in this fool’s mind and on CNN


Just like systemic racism and white privilege.


64 posted on 07/05/2020 2:23:43 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but I'm you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: FreedomPoster
... people with a valid Georgia Weapons License.

This is where I would question?

65 posted on 07/05/2020 2:23:57 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
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To: FreedomPoster
No, state law only requires a GWL to open carry a handgun (I know it's weird, Georgia allows pretty much eveything else without one). Wihtout the local ordnance, open carry of long guns is legal in Stone MOuntain park without a GWL.

BUt as you said, I doubt anyone was checking any of those people who may have had a handgun for their GLW.

66 posted on 07/05/2020 2:31:30 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one wo)
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To: yesthatjallen

Naggers looking for non-existent “white supremacists”. Proof that morons come in all colors.


67 posted on 07/05/2020 2:32:19 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Why does NIKE support child slavery?)
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To: JonPreston

Pretty sure this wasn’t a private event, so whites folks should have just joined in the march to show solidarity for the 2A.


68 posted on 07/05/2020 2:33:14 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one wo)
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To: dp0622

Just like “Where all the white wimmen at?”


69 posted on 07/05/2020 2:51:37 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Oatka

>If they ever did actually try anyrthing, those bozos would have broken out in a rash. The chart below would aid the medics in identifying what kind of rash they had,

I’m pretty sure it would consist of a lot of .308 fired from surrounding buildings


70 posted on 07/05/2020 2:57:27 PM PDT by struggle
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To: faucetman

No law breaking for now. Just wait til all guns are banned /s


71 posted on 07/05/2020 3:14:28 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: wardaddy; yesthatjallen

I’m from California/Arizona. I schooled with most races you could name but they were friends or not, by personality not race.

I’ve been in west central Florida, 5 minutes to the beach, for 25 years with my Tampa native wife and family.

Not really the south unless you count jacked up trucks and places you avoid.

THE CURRENT SITUATION IS OUT OF CONTROL AND DEFACING OR PULLING DOWN ANY STATUE IS A CRIME.

Florida is a shall issue CCW state but no open carry so you can’t take your long gun down to help keep “order”.

All this is to say, whoever installed the Andrew Jackson Statue should be studied and copied.

The anti-Americans had 4 or five ropes on the Lafayette Park statue, as the cops stood by and they still couldn’t pull it down.

Its base and attachments should be studied and painting anyone who climbs it sprayed with bank bill stacks “dye” should be considered.

From what I’ve seen the Community organizer in Chief office (he’s not working - See ValJar & Soros minions) is coordinating all this chit.

New tactics arise almost simultaneously across our country.
Track these people down.

Just before the two female “protestors” were run down you could hear a gal coordinating with other “protest” sites.

The attempted coup continues.


72 posted on 07/05/2020 3:20:49 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: mquinn

Personally, I think it mostly has a lot to do with big cities, which also happen to be usually liberal and have lots of people of color proportionate to the population. I can see why someone in San Francisco or New York might not be too thrilled by a neighbor using a high powered, large capacity rifle, too.


73 posted on 07/05/2020 3:28:30 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: gundog

That’s a shame. I went to college and my brother went to college and law school. He left Staten island and moved to Westchester and was always a big book reader.

I think many places if I moved would get a real kick out of the way I say some words and phrases. Not so with him.

Find an attorney, you expect them to speak very well


74 posted on 07/05/2020 3:57:08 PM PDT by dp0622 (TRUMP!)
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To: beethovenfan

Lol


75 posted on 07/05/2020 3:57:21 PM PDT by dp0622 (TRUMP!)
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To: granite
Battle lines are being drawn...

Not here with these fools. They're just clowns who'd get chopped up quick.

76 posted on 07/05/2020 4:14:43 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: DOC44

Yeah, if ATF showed up we would be lamenting the death of children today. I don’t trust any of the alphabet soup, the ATF would be at the top of the list.


77 posted on 07/05/2020 4:42:22 PM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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