KKK Plans Protest Of Martin Luther King Jr Tribute At Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial

[struggle4progress]

By Adam Lidgett
on October 23 2015 9:00 AM EDT

The Ku Klux Klan is scheduled to hold a protest in November at the Georgia site of a proposed Martin Luther King Jr. memorial that is set to be located near what is considered the country's largest Confederate Civil War memorial. The “Freedom Bell” would be engraved with King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and be located above the Stone Mountain Park Confederate Memorial Carving, engraved with images of Confederate figures such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The KKK, which was planning the protest along with some pro-Confederate groups, have used the Confederate memorial in the past to hold cross burnings and other rituals. KKK rallies at the site have been officially banned since the 1950s. Other groups involved in the protests are reported to be the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the League of the South ...

http://www.ibtimes.com/kkk-plans-protest-martin-luther-king-jr-tribute-stone-mountain-confederate-memorial-2153804

[Hoyt]

1. Screw the Klan. Their burning of crosses on the mountain into the 1970s forever ruined

the "park" and mountain for me -- Ignorant racists.

[PosterChild]

2. I support this idea....

"We want to eradicate it. We want to blast it. We want to paint over it. Whatever it takes, that's what we want to do," Charles Steele Jr., who leads the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a group King helped found., said of the Confederate memorial.