Despite calls for participants to refrain from using racial slurs at a rally on behalf of the Confederate flag at the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia (aka the Confederate Mount Rushmore), things apparently did not all go according to plan. While most of the roughly 800 participants professed to be focused on heritage not race, some got into heated arguments with a mixed-race crowd of protestors there to voice their opposition to the flag and the monument.
Allan Croft, a rally participant from Dalton, Georgia, admitted his ancestors had supported segregation and opposed ‘race-mixing’ but asked the black counter- protestors he was arguing with to realize that their ancestors also supported separation of the races. In fact, in the spirit of looking forward, Croft appeared to propose a biracial alliance in opposition to “Communist Jews.”
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution …
Across the parking lot, Allan Croft, a bearded Dalton resident, debated Southern history with a group of young black men.
“Yeah, we didn’t want our daughters to marry you and we didn’t want our children to go to school with you,” he said. “But you’ve got to realize something, your parents didn’t want it, either.”
Croft blamed integration and the civil rights movement on “Communist Jews” and said accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof “should have went to the synagogue, because that’s the enemy of all of us.”
Security at the rally was provided by heavily-armed members of a group calling itself the Georgia Security Force III%, who mainly patrolled the parking area.
