While a number of American cities and colleges campuses have had pro-Palestinian protests in recent months, we haven’t seen any of that in East Cobb.
But while waiting at the Roswell-Johnson Ferry Road intersection Friday afternoon, we spotted a man waving a joint Palestinian-Black Lives Matter flag as traffic rolled by.
That’s just across the street from where pro-BLM rallies took place this time four years ago, not long after the George Floyd death that sparked protests around the country.
The East Cobb rallies then consisted of holding up signs asking for those supporting BLM to honk their horns. Many did, and there were other pro-BLM rallies at Lassiter High School and elsewhere in East Cobb that followed.
On Friday, however, the one-man protester repeatedly waved his two-in-one flag without much fanfare.
East Cobb is the home of three synagogues, including Chabad at Cobb, which in May held a “Great Jewish Parade” and community fair in wake of the violence in Israel and Gaza that broke out last October.
Cobb commissioners declined to act on a pro-Israel resolution in October after protests from the local Muslim and Palestinian community.
Pardon the audio on the video below; we forgot to turn down the radio!
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