People in Stone Mountain Park, Georgia valiantly defend racist flag

[rug]

Jordan Freiman / August 1, 2015



A rally to support the explicitly racist battle flag of a failed nation that rebelled against the United States because it wanted to continue legally treating people like property was held in Stone Mountain Park, Georgia on Saturday.

By all accounts it was a rousing success. Hundreds of people came out to support their incorrect understanding of a backwards heritage and bloody war. It was probably thanks to the polite rules that were established beforehand:

These rules are simple logical and easy to follow!

1.) NO racial slurs or offensive remarks
2.) NO alcohol, we do know its illegal and that will be opportunity for tickets/arrests
3.) NO taunting other vehicles, flipping other people off during the ride
4.) NO burning any flags of any type regardless of which flag
5.) STAY peaceful, which means NO violence

Remember there will be people everywhere! Possibly media and cameras, ONE piece of negativity and that will be what goes Viral and that is what we will be remembered for. This is to show our support BC we care about where we live and grew up, lets keep this Clean and Peaceful! Absolutely ZERO tolerance on these rules, if you don’t think you can follow don’t show up. There will be plenty others there who can follow the rules. See y’all there, thank you and God Bless!

If you actually have to write out that people shouldn’t use racial slurs and put it as your first rule, I think you know you have a problem. You are fully aware that people like this are going to show up:

http://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/627537341230542848/photo/1

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/258066/people-in-stone-mountain-park-georgia-valiantly-defend-racist-flag/

Fortunately, this guy also showed up to burn the Confederate flag:



http://imgur.com/gallery/fDoeH1T

Looking for more info on this.

[onehandle]

1. When I was a kid there were certain weekends during the year...

...that it was known to avoid Stone Mountain Park.

Giant Klan 'picnics' would take over the entire place.

[daredtowork]

2. OMG Super Huge K+R to Guy Burning the Confederate Flag!

What a great iconic image! Please let that go viral!

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. yikes

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. Bottom picture is a random sample of FOX's viewing audience

scary people, and the south is full of them.

[lunasun]

5. Home to the 2nd KKK the caption stated. Are there different levels of the KKK ??

Ha! Not even a first tier KKK crowd .
Burn dude rocks

[struggle4progress]

6. It's partly a satire on the page discussed here:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/stone-mountain-georgia-confederate-flag-rally

[rug]

7. Thanks for the info.

Did you find anything on the flag-burning guy? The kind of hatred he received looks legit.

[struggle4progress]

8. I haven't much info about the event. Georgia is an open carry state, and a number

of attendees seem to have been armed; one confederate did pull a gun during an argument, but there was a heavy police presence, and he re-holstered the weapon when so instructed by authorities. Another argument between confederates and non-confederates seemed about to erupt into a scuffle, but police intervened there also, and nothing happened. Reportedly, no arrests whatsoever were made

Since

(1) The Georgia Declaration of Secession begins The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slaveholding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery ...

(2) Stone Mountain is the site where the KKK was reborn in 1915

(3) The carving on the mountain, completed in 1972, represents three famous slave-holders in a completely fictional ride together

and

(4) The confederate flag almost completely disappeared from American life from the end of the Civil War to the end of WWII, when white supremacists began waving it furiously as a symbol of their opposition to the African-American civil rights movement

it's difficult to imagine how a large mob waving confederate rally flags at Stone Mountain could intend anything other than the glorification of a racist society and a racist ideology