By James King, Vocativ
In April, a coalition of white
supremacists gathered to light up a cross—and plan the future of hate in
America.
The Georgia Peach Oyster Bar sits along a rural highway about 45
miles west of Atlanta. From the outside, it could pass for a
single-story house if not for the neon beer signs. Inside, it looks like
any other dusty saloon in the dregs of Dixie: a bar, pool tables under
Bud Light lamps hanging from the ceiling, a TV mounted in the corner of
the room. It’s what’s behind a single doorway leading to a backroom that
makes the Georgia Peach unique.
Dozens of white nationalists from various groups across the country gathered here on a Saturday
night in April and spirits were high, giving the room the feel of a
white supremacist theme park. In one corner, a tattoo station where
shirtless men were getting inked up. In another, a guy sold T-shirts
featuring swastikas and hooded Ku Klux Klansmen with the words “The
Original Boys in the Hood.” Centered along a back wall was a stage with a
podium, the backdrop comprised of a banner with the contact information
for the National Socialist Movement (NSM), the predominant neo-Nazi
group in the United States, as well as swastikas and other white
nationalist imagery.
A porch off the back of the building looks out over a multi-acre horse
pasture, an idyllic country scene were it not for the 15-foot wooden
cross and swastika that three neo-Nazis were wrapping in burlap and
dousing in gasoline in preparation for the night’s festivities. Inside
the bar, attendees milled about smoking cigarettes and sipping drinks in
celebration of what they are calling an historic event.
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Source: The Huffington Post
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