The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) held its annual convention in Atlanta this past weekend at the Century Center Marriott, returning to the city at which it adopted its name in 1895. A coalition of extreme left-wing groups – some with a proven history of violent, criminal behavior – rallied near the hotel because police threatened them with arrest if they got near or entered the Marriott.
The UDC today, as it has for generations, devotes itself to benevolent activities. The ladies of the UDC help American veterans, visit hospitals with gifts for patients with no family nearby, help maintain cemeteries and fund scholarships for college students.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution didn’t identify the left-wing protest groups, but local NAACP President Richard Rose was a scheduled speaker and he affiliated his organization with violence-prone Communist and anarchist activists.
Who’s in this “coalition?” Consider the Atlanta Anarchist Black Cross, which used social media to urge its members to protest the UDC. This is a local “Antifa” group with quite a record. In 2016 it staged a demonstration demanding that prisons be emptied and inmates be released into the population. Along with members of the Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America they invaded the Midtown Starbucks at which a gay couple were beaten for daring to disagree with their agenda. (Three thugs who participated in the unprovoked attack on the gay couple were arrested.)
Emboldened by their “success,” the Atlanta Anarchist Black Cross on September 19, 2017 attacked police officers at Georgia Tech, one of whom was taken to the hospital with a head wound. Topping that, in the same “demonstration” the Antifa group firebombed a police car– totally destroying it.
InsiderAdvantage has previously reported that not one of the three perpetrators arrested in the bombing the police car has ever been prosecuted by the Fulton County district attorney.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, in a press release defending the UDC, criticized NAACP leader Rose. “They have chosen to associate themselves with thugs who attack police officers, bomb police cars, beat up a gay couple trying to have a coffee and hide behind masks as they commit their crimes– and to do so in order to try to shut down a conference of benevolent, philanthropic ladies.”
The release concluded: “Sensible Georgians– of all reasonable political convictions and of all racial groups, including African Americans – reject Antifa violence and extremism.”
