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Activism, Uncensored: Stone Mountain Protests

Supporters of the “Mt. Rushmore of the Confederacy” square off with activists

Matt Taibbi

May 8, 2022

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Thanks to Ford Fischer and News2Share for this report of a clash from Georgia. More, as they say, TK.

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Sherry

My family has been in Alabama since before 1800. My great-great grandfather, his father, his brother, and his uncle all enlisted in the Confederate Army in Jasper, Alabama in 1862. By the end of the war, 3 of the 4 were dead. None of them owned slaves. They did what they thought was right. The past is a foreign country to us.

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Frank Lee

Writes Social Misfit Newsletter

I hate the fact that I support confederate memorials almost exclusively because of what opposes them.

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