Klan figure to lead Stone Mountain rally

[struggle4progress]

Posted: 5:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015
By Chris Joyner - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

... Billy Roper, a longtime activist in the white supremacy movement, issued a press release on the “Rock Stone Mountain” Facebook page promoting the planned April rally as a reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement and promised the gathering would bring “white patriots from across the United States and around the world” ...

In the past, Roper was associated with the neo-Nazi groups the National Alliance and White Revolution, according to the Anti-Defamation League and news reports. More recently, he has been affiliated with the Arkansas-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ...

He created a stir in the mainstream press when he celebrated the Sept. 11 hijackers with a message posted on a website declaring, “The enemy of our enemy is, for now at least, our friend.

“Anyone who is willing to drive a plane into a building to kill Jews is alright by me,” he wrote ...

http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/controversial-klan-figure-to-lead-stone-mountain-r/npgxQ/

[onehandle]

1. That's where the Klan had their annual picnic when I was a kid.

They would essentially control the park over a three day weekend.

[Hoyt]

2. And cross burnings too. The family that sold the mountain to the state was big in Klan.

The history of that place is why I avoid it although it is otherwise a nice Park and place to hike.