all pages vol 26 no 2 8-20-20

Page 8 August 20—September 2, 2020
“A tool of white supremacy”
Chicago Street Journal
200 ARMED
BLACKS
Most Chicago aldermen are
praising Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s
decision to remove two Columbus
statues. But not all are on board for
the permanent removal of the statues.
The Grant Park monument was
removed about 3 a.m. Crews also
removed another statue of the Italian
explorer in Arrigo Park on the
Near West Side.
Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st)
on Friday said he’s very saddened
by the removal, and he questioned
the overnight removal. He dubbed
it “not the American way.”
“It’s because a bunch of people,
a bunch of socialist cancel culture
people cried about it that we removed
it in the middle of the
night,” Napolitano said. “In America,
we do this by discussion.”
“Chicago’s Christopher Columbus
monuments have been removed
— and will stay that way — because
of the Indigenous, Black, and
Brown Chicagoans that have been
fighting for so long to make this
happen,” Aldermen Rossana Rodriguez
(33rd), Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
(35th), Daniel La Spata (1st),
Jeanette Taylor (20th), and Byron
Sigcho-Lopez (25th) said in a statement.
Writer and activist Shaun King
announced that he supports the
destruction of statues that depict a
white Jesus. King, who has been an
outspoken supporter of the Black
Lives Matter movement, tweeted
his remarks. He noted that historians
believe Jesus likely had the
appearance of people who typically
lived in the Middle
East during his
time, rather than
the white man
who is typically
depicted in Christian
iconography.
He took to Twitter and wrote:
“Yes I think the statues of the white
European they claim is Jesus
should also come down. They are a
form of white supremacy. Always
have been,” King tweeted. “In the
Bible, when the family of Jesus
wanted to hide and blend in, guess
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STRONGHOLD AND ISSUE WARN-
ING TO ‘REDNECKS’On 4 July, Independence
Day, hundreds of armed
Black citizens marched, military
style, at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
stronghold in Georgia, USA. There
they issued a warning to
“rednecks”.
According to Fox News, the
“protesters”, which local police
estimated as numbering “around
200”, gathered at Stone Mountain
Park to demand that the massive
stone carving there be removed.
The carving is a memorial to general
Robert E Lee, confederate
president Jefferson Davis, and general
Thomas J “Stonewall” Jackson.
All three are confederate heroes and
revered by white supremacists.
This follows Black Lives Matter
(BLM) protests across the US and
elsewhere that saw similar demands
or direct action regarding statues of
slave owners and their Black Lives
Matter protesters gather in front of
the Confederate carving in Stone
Mountain Park on June 16, 2020 in
Stone Mountain, Georgia. The
march is to protest confederate
monuments and recent police shootings.
Stone Mountain Park features
a Confederate Memorial carving
depicting Stonewall Jackson and
Robert E. Lee, President Jefferson
Davis supporters.
The group, known as the Not
F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC)
was comprised of several hundred
people, all dressed in black.
John Jay Fitzgerald Johnson,
known as Grand Master Jay, claims
leadership of the group and has
stated that it is composed of "ex
military shooters." Johnson, who
was an independent candidate for
U.S. president in 2016, stated, "We
are a Black militia. We aren't protesters,
we aren't demonstrators. We
don't come to sing, we don't come
to chant. That's not what we do."
Furthermore, in the same interview,
Johnson expressed Black Nationalist
views, putting forth the view that
the United States should either hand
the state of Texas over to African-
Americans so that they may form
an independent country, or allow
African-Americans to depart the
Derrick A. Riley, CEO
United States to another country
that would provide land upon which
to form an independent nation.
The first public sighting of the
NFAC took place on May 12, 2020,
in Brunswick, Georgia, as a direct
response to the shooting death of
Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old
Black jogger murder by two white
males in February. Although early
reports on the NFAC linked the
organization to the Black Panther
Party, the NFAC has denied any
connection. Although African
Americans appeared to account for
the vast majority of the marchers,
protesters of various races, men and
women alike, were among the
group.
Of all the Confederate monuments
under fire, the 1,700-foot
high outcropping of granite with
carvings of Robert E. Lee, Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson and Jefferson
Davis is—by far—the largest.
Covering more than 17,000
square feet of mountain and 40 feet
deep in the crannies, the carving—
at nine-stories high—is the largest
flat relief
sculpture in the
Stone Mountain Ku Klux Klan rally. Supporters of the Ku
Klux Former Klan presidential march May candidate
2016, John Jay Fitzger-
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4, 1989, Stone Mountain, Georgia (Paul
ald Johnson, known as
Grand Master Jay, claims
leadership of the group Not
F***ing Around Coalition
(NFAC)
world. Planning of the monument
began only in 1914. Funding for the
project came primarily from the Ku
Klux Klan, which regularly met on
the mountain to burn crosses and
the project's first directors and promoters
were KKK members. Their
original plan was to depict General
Robert E. Lee leading Confederate
soldiers and Klan members up the
mountain.
The park officially opened to the
public on April 14, 1965 — the
hundredth anniversary of the assassination
of President Abraham Lincoln.
After the memorial was complete,
“a ‘neo-Confederate theme
park’ emerged around the site, including
a plantation house, a “Gone
With the Wind” museum, according
to a report from the Atlanta History
C e n t e r , T h e N e w Y o r k
Times reported.
Stacey Abrams, the former minority
leader of the Georgia House
of Representatives and the Democratic
nominee for governor in 2018,
declared during her unsuccessful
gubernatorial campaign that the
granite carving is “a blight on our
state” and called for its removal.
"We must never celebrate
those who defended slavery and
tried to destroy the union," Abrams
said.
Removing the monument would
take a lot of dynamite and require a
change in state law. The Georgia
code says the Confederate memorial
should be “preserved and protected
for all time as a tribute to the
bravery and heroism of the citizens
of this state who suffered and died
in their cause.”
“Anytime there appears to be a
gross injustice against the Black
community, we’ve decided we’re
going to take it to the streets. We’re
going to take it to their face and
show them what Malcolm said was
true. There are no such things as a
b l o o d l e s s r e v o l u t i o n . ” -
Grandmaster Jay