White nationalists plan Stone Mountain rally Super Bowl weekend
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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AJC LOCAL IN-DEPTH: STONE MOUNTAIN RALLY 6 hours ago
By Chris Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A group of white nationalists and white supremacists are moving ahead with plans to hold a pro-white rally at Stone Mountain on the Saturday before the Super Bowl despite being denied an official permit.
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The organizers behind the planned rally are the same people who attempted to stage a white power rally in 2016 called Rock Stone Mountain. Only about two dozen white supremacists showed up, but they drew hundreds of counter demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police for hours until officials shut down the park.
The Stone Mountain Memorial Association, the state body that governs the park, referenced the 2016 rally in November as its grounds for denying Rock Stone Mountain organizers a permit to gather. Weaver said he and his fellow organizers, who include members of the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, believe the denial violates their First Amendment rights, but he said they have been unable to find an attorney to take their case.
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Weaver, whose given name is Michael Carothers, pleaded guilty in 2011 to aggravated assault after he pepper sprayed a black man in Columbus. As part of his sentence, Weaver was banished from the six-county Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit.
Read more: https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional/white-nationalists-plan-stone-mountain-rally-super-bowl-weekend/rXxCxQF5OKYm9XIh1UWMHM/
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Michael Weaver (Michael Carothers) (On the right)
a kennedy
(29,458 posts)DorothyG
(95 posts)kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)I have a spoon holder souvenir from there I keep in my kitchen. It makes me chuckle.
More_Cowbell
(2,190 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)Takket
(21,421 posts)llmart
(15,499 posts)outside of their ugly faces.
I'm sure they'll be playing Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" at Stone Mountain. I've been to Georgia many times in the '80's, but thankfully never got to Stone Mountain, but I remember they used to play that on July 4th.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)llmart
(15,499 posts)They only know redneck culture.
llmart
(15,499 posts)SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)mountain...wouldn't bother me one bit. And you are right, the stupid little thing/gesture w/ the fingers is stupid and obviously racist. So anyone else caught using this symbol and then later denies it (that the use of this gesture isn't racist), we have evidence and proof that it is, in fact is.
What are these people? Grade school dropouts who work at the junkyard?
riversedge
(69,708 posts)Paladin
(28,202 posts)Hell, Kentucky isn't that far away......
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)HINT: WE ARE NOT STUPID!
Raster
(20,996 posts)...which it could be if they were on a court playing basketball, which they are not.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)if they feel it is a 1st Amendment rights case. That is what they do no matter who it is. And I agree with them, the ACLU, not these bozos.