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struggle4progress

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Sat Nov 14, 2015, 06:37 PM Nov 2015

Pro-Confederate Flag rally underway at Stone Mountain

Posted: 11:01 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015
By Ernie Suggs

... Confederate flag supporters climbed Stone Mountain Saturday with two things in mind: Keeping the mountain “pure” to its Confederate roots, and keeping a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. off of it.

By 1 p.m., only about 40 flaggers were assembled in front of the Stone Mountain Park police station, far fewer than what social media chatter last week had suggested ... At times, it appeared there were more officers on hand than demonstrators ...

... A crowd gathered.. to read the .. text on his .. T-shirt. “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” it read. White said it was a “family tree” shirt focusing on keeping “our bloodlines” pure ...


http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/pro-confederate-flag-rally-underway-stone-mountain/npNDz/

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Pro-Confederate Flag rally underway at Stone Mountain (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2015 OP
Ignorance on parade. Everyone of the yahoos will swear they aren't a racist. Hoyt Nov 2015 #1
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