Stone Mountain Park in Georgia closes ahead of white nationalist rally, counterprotest

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Source: nbc news


A far-right group applied to hold a large rally at Stone Mountain Park, home to the largest monument to the Confederacy. The permit was denied, but some groups said they would gather anyway.
Protesters rally against racial inequality in Stone Mountain

Aug. 15, 2020, 10:17 AM CDT
By Minyvonne Burke

Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, known for its giant rock carvings of Confederate leaders, closed to the public Saturday over concerns about a planned white nationalist rally and counterprotest.

The city of Stone Mountain, about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta, announced the closure in a tweet on Friday.

"The City of Stone Mountain is anticipating and preparing for at least two opposing groups of protesters whose intentions are to demonstrate at Stone Mountain Park on Saturday, August 15, 2020. Stone Mountain Park has made the decision to close the Park on this day," the city said.

Opposing groups meanwhile faced off in the city's downtown on Saturday morning, according to NBC affiliate WXIA in Atlanta. A video showed people chanting "Go home, racists, go home."...........................

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Protest signs are held up in front of the Confederate Monument carved into granite at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga., on June 16, 2020.Dustin Chambers / Reuters file

[NurseJackie]

1. I wonder if that racist and traitorous carving can be removed...

I wonder if that racist and traitorous carving can be removed... in such a way that it would "restore" or blend-in with the original shape/curve/outline of the mountainside.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Now that place needs one of these

[FarPoint]

3. That will do the trick...

[dalton99a]

4. +1. Or targeted explosives

[Marcuse]

7. It's the only way to be sure.

[Magoo48]

9. Yes, and so does Six Grandfathers mountain as well.

[progressive nobody]

5. I'm scared this is going to end very badly. I saw images on MSNBC a lot of those Nationalist had

assault riffles

[sop]

6. Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial is a nine-story high bas relief, carved into the face of the

mountain, depicting Confederate “heroes” and slave owners, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. Original advocates of the carvings were card carrying members of the KKK.

In 1915 the Klan was “reborn” atop Stone Mountain. The site has been a notorious meeting place for the KKK since then. Klan members gather at Stone Mountain annually to hold rallies and cross burnings. This place isn't about southern heritage, it's a KKK meeting place.

[KS Toronado]

8. Hell just let the far right gather there without masks, one way to thin the republican herd.