GROUND ZERO in the Heritage War

by Dr. Ed DeVries

In August, the “Rev.” Ferrell Brown, the white pastor of an Atlanta area church, stood atop the wide bald knob of Stone Mountain on a balmy southern Saturday morning. Before him stood an estimated 2,000 people, mostly members of Brown’s church, who had assembled for what I will simply describe as a racial unity stunt. Their Pastor wanted to make it into the newscasts and headlines. He finally did, in October.

According to a report on MSNBC that was picked up by the New York Times, “Rev.” Brown LIED about his family’s history, claiming to be a direct descendant of Nathan Bedford Forrest. This, of course, is impossible since the direct line ended with Gen. N.B. Forrest III (who died in WWII) and his sister, facts that the mainstream sources covering the story would have known if they had bothered to “fact-check,” which obviously they did not. Anyway, according to this “Rev.” Brown his “grandfather” was the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, who, he told the New York Times, “would throw a meal in the trash at a restaurant if he saw a mixed-race couple walk in.” Maybe Brown’s grandfather was that man, but he certainly wasn’t describing Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Anywhoo, as the slobber dribbled down his face Brown told the audience, “I stand here today as a representation of the racism of the white man against African-Americans, against Jews, against Hispanics,” he said. “And I’m asking forgiveness, I’m asking you, I repent. I repent! I’m asking you to forgive!”

So why was MSNBC and the New York Times finally covering an event that had happened months before? Because the Democrat, 44-year-old Stacey Abrams, a former leader in Georgia’s State House of Representatives and also the first black woman in America to win a major party nomination for Governor, had promised that if elected, the monument featuring carved likenesses of General Robert E. Lee, President Jefferson Davis, and General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson on horseback; the Confederate equivalent to Mount Rushmore, would be quickly blown off piece by piece with explosives.

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