Post by pavel on Apr 22, 2016 7:00:16 GMT -6
What you need to know about the white power rally at Stone Mountain
Hundreds of protesters are expected to flood Stone Mountain Park Saturday and it may be hard to figure out who is protesting what and why. Here’s a quick primer on the “Rock Stone Mountain” white power rally and those protesting it.
Rock Stone Mountain
Organizers have alerted Stone Mountain authorities they expect between 200 and 2,000 participants for this rally, dubbed the first “open white power” rally since reaction to last summer’s mass shooting in a black church in Charleston, S.C., reopened the debate on the Confederate flag.
Such a large range means organizers aren’t sure who is coming and if past demonstrations are any indication the actual turnout will be significantly smaller than advertised.
Among the organizers and supporters are members of various Ku Klux Klans, Aryan Nation sects and other white nationalist organizations. Others are unaffiliated white supremacists whose activism has been confined to social media, until now.
Read more: www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-white-power-rally-/nq89M/
Hundreds of protesters are expected to flood Stone Mountain Park Saturday and it may be hard to figure out who is protesting what and why. Here’s a quick primer on the “Rock Stone Mountain” white power rally and those protesting it.
Rock Stone Mountain
Organizers have alerted Stone Mountain authorities they expect between 200 and 2,000 participants for this rally, dubbed the first “open white power” rally since reaction to last summer’s mass shooting in a black church in Charleston, S.C., reopened the debate on the Confederate flag.
Such a large range means organizers aren’t sure who is coming and if past demonstrations are any indication the actual turnout will be significantly smaller than advertised.
Among the organizers and supporters are members of various Ku Klux Klans, Aryan Nation sects and other white nationalist organizations. Others are unaffiliated white supremacists whose activism has been confined to social media, until now.
Read more: www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-white-power-rally-/nq89M/