Pro-Confederates celebrating 'Confederate Memorial Day' clashed with protestors at Georgia's Stone M

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A group of pro-Confederates gathered at Stone Mountain in Georgia to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day, which is no longer an official state holiday in Georgia.

The group of about 200 Confederacy supporters was met with 100 protestors on Saturday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

"These protesters are against our Christian faith. They are anti-Christ," said Kenneth Buggay, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, per the AJC. "We have been fighting this war since 1861. We will be victorious."

There were calls for Stone Mountain, a state-owned park, to revoke the SVC's permit ahead of the event. The Southern Poverty Law Center called on the state park to "stop this weekend's event and all future events that give white nationalists a platform at Stone Mountain Park."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pro-confederates-celebrating-confederate-memorial-day-clashed-with-protestors-at-georgias-stone-mountain/ar-AAWO8nt

[Achilleaze]

1. Projection is the damning steady-state Republican sin

Own your own shit, you anti-American Xristofascist hate mongers. Get the damn BEAMs out of your jaundiced eyes.

[Boomerproud]

2. You'll find out which side was right on Judgement Day.

Another false Christian.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. I googled mr. Buggay (LOL) and his HVAC co. has stellar reviews. Not.

Many mentioned he showed up w/a giant confederate flag buckle and hat and shit

[SergeStorms]

4. "We've been fighting this war since 1861".

You lost, numerous times. Get over it and get on with your life, such as it is.

[Hoyt]

5. What I saw on Atlanta News last night, looked like rube protestors and good people were about equal.

The good people were much better looking--


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I keep praying that some day the carving will be covered with Kudzu, if they can't blow it up.

[kimbutgar]

6. I was visiting Atlanta 28 years ago and we had one extra day and asked a hotel clerk for a good

Place To visit nearby. He suggested Stone Mountain. Being from California I had no idea what Stone Mountain was about but we rented a car and drove out there. We took the tram up to the top of the mountain. A guy in the tram with us kept saying while power! white power! The south will rise again! My husband is white and I am a light skinned black woman. I got immediately uncomfortable and turned my back to the white power guy. When the door opened I was the first out and got away from him. It was hot and miserable up there and we took the tram back down about 10 minutes later. Then I looked up at the craving and realized it was a memorial to the confederate army with the generals chiseled in stone. As a joke I got a spoon holder with the Stone Mountain carving with my name on it and to this day still have it in my kitchen and chuckle remembering that day.

[Aristus]

8. Portraits of traitors Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

My whole family is from the South. We have the right-wing branch that still lives in Alabama and Georgia, and the liberal branch, including me, that all live in blue states like Washington.

In 1993, we had our family reunion in, where else? Stone Mountain, Georgia.

I'm a bit of a smart-mouth, and not shy about expressing my loathing of the Confederacy, the "Lost Cause" myth, and the whole shebang.

When my liberal family stepped out onto the greensward facing the carved portraits of the Confederate scumbags, I said, out loud: "Those are the worst portraits of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman I've ever seen!"

My family frantically tried to shush me, begging me not to talk like that in the very lair of secessionism.

[kimbutgar]

9. Great story!

[sakabatou]

7. Losers celebrating that their side lost.