With their permit denied, their Facebook page deleted, their opposition energized, and their in-group conflicts increasingly aired in public, a group of white nationalists and supremacists planning a Super Bowl weekend rally at Stone Mountain, nearby Atlanta, have seemingly all but abandoned the event.
“The event was undermined by people who were supposed to be on my side,” white supremacist organizer John Michael Estes said in a Facebook video Wednesday that was flagged by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“All I can say is short of me showing up by myself, there is no hope of an event,” Estes said.
“We will take the fight to the courts and other political and media platforms to preserve our freedom of speech and will have an event at a later time when we have everything we need to secure our perimeters legally and have a successful event,” wrote another organizer, Michael Weaver, as quoted by the Journal-Constitution.
Anti-fascists organizing in opposition to the event still plan on showing up in force Saturday, they said on Twitter, but the tenor of their plans — sans organized racists — had grown considerably more celebratory.
F.L.O.W.E.R. Statement on the Rock Stone Mountain Capitulation!#noklan https://t.co/RWxGd8xbL2 pic.twitter.com/uAuQllscnz
— F.L.O.W.E.R. (@flowerunited) January 31, 2019
Read the Journal-Constitution’s report here.
Tiki nazis want their own Fyre Island event, discover no one will foot the bill.
You were planning on securing them illegally? Is that right??
Are you afraid of the dark cupcake? Does the monster under your bed follow you about? Don’t be afraid, take mommie with you.
A reminder…
It should be noted that the Lee monument on Stone Mountain sculpture was started by famed sculptor Gutzon Borglum (of Mount Rushmore fame), but work on it ended in 1925, with only preliminary roughs completed of part of Lee.
If the racists of the state of Georgia has left it at that, the rudimentary beginning by Borglum could well be preserved as an historic artifact.
But what happened was that in the late 1950s, as a protest against the Civil Rights movement, the state funded a project to “complete” the monument.
The very first thing this project did was to strip everything Borglum had done from the rock face. That’s right, not a single chisel mark Borglum made is left. Everything there is a new composition chiseled on the mountain in the 1960s to celebrate white supremacy.
Personally, I think the mountain should be blasted bare, just as they did to Borglum’s work.
If not, they should add a larger image of Lee, as he directs his overseer to whip a naked slave for disobedience, an event for which we have solid historical documentation.
If the racists don’t like it, there is always the dynamite.
It’s too bad ISIS was defeated by Dotard, Stone Mountain would have been a perfect target…