Dahlonega, Ga., just 105 miles southeast of Chattanooga in the Blue Ridge Mountains, made headlines in the Washington Post on Sunday.
In banner type, the Post writes: “In Georgia, reaction to KKK banner is a sign of the times.”
“Just past the old brick courthouse and across the street from candy stores and antique shops, a large rectangular banner was screwed tight into the cracked wood siding of a long-vacant building on East Main Street. ‘Historic Ku Klux Klan Meeting Hall,’ it said.”
The Post reporter noted that the sign, seen first on Feb. 16, featured a cartoonish drawing of a white-sheeted person raising a hand. Flanking it was a Confederate battle flag at one corner of the building and a red flag with a white cross and the letters KKK at the other.
The incident made Dahlonega just one more place in America dealing with disturbing incidents and hate crimes as racism and fear masquerading under a new name of white nationalism make comebacks across the country.