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Title: “They Can Sand Blast Lee, Jefferson Davis, And Jackson” Off Stone Mountain
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V-103 The People's Station
URL Source: http://v103.cbslocal.com/2015/07/13 ... jackson-off-of-stone-mountain/
Published: Jul 18, 2015
Author: Maria Boynton
Post Date: 2015-07-18 09:54:03 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 1536
Comments: 17
The Atlanta Chapter of the NAACP is calling for the removal of the Confederacy from Stone Mountain Park. Local chapter president Richard Rose says, “It is time for Georgia and other Southern states to end the glorification of slavery and white supremacy, paid for and maintained, with the taxes of all its citizens.” According to Rose, “all of this recognition of Confederate generals is upholding the white supremacy on which the Confederacy was founded and the war was fought.” He goes on to say, “all of this should have ended in 1865 when Lee surrendered to Appomattox.” He’s referring to, what historians refer to as, one of the last battles before Confederate Army General Robert Lee surrendered to Union Army Lt. Ulysses Grant on April 9, 1865. Recent debate about the emblems was sparked by the mass killings at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Alleged gunman Dylann Roof was seen in photographs posing with the Confederate Flag. While some consider the flag as a commemoration of their heritage, others consider it a symbol of hate. On Friday, South Carolina removed the flag from its statehouse grounds. Georgia removed the Confederate emblem from its flag in 2001, though the “Stars and Bars” from the First National Confederate Flag remain on the state flag. The Confederate Flag still flies at Stone Mountain Park, which is owned by and run by the State of Georgia. Many, like Congressman Hank Johnson see the park as a museum for the Confederacy. According to Johnson, “where do we draw the line, do we blast the faces off of Stone Mountain?” Rose says “yes”. He adds, “they can sand blast Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Jackson off tomorrow. I’d be extremely elated.” Rose calls it “unfair, unfortunate, and unconscionable for the State of Georgia and any other government to continue to commemorate and spend taxpayer dollars in upholding and preserving Confederate monuments and symbols including the flag.” On any government property, Rose says, “those symbols should be eradicated.” A compromise, Rose says, would be to “add other figures to Stone Mountain”, those who he says have been “instrumental in bringing peace between the races” and in “elevating Georgia beyond the Civil War and Jim Crow eras.”
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#7. To: Willie Green (#0)
I guess these guys who did this had the right idea:
Created by...SLAVES. Right, Willie? I guess according to the self-loathing, guilt-ridden pasty-azzed hating whites, ALL antiquity's monuments should be torn down pronto (except for statues of 0blabla, MLK, Stalin, and Marx.)
#14. To: Liberator, Pinguinite (#8)
"Antiquity" in Western Civilization generally refers to anything prior to the Fall of Rome (476 AD), dummy. Stone Mountain deserves to be obliterated same as all the monuments to Stalin/Marx, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin Dada, Pol Pot, Hitler/Nazis and all other contemporary despotic regimes. The Confederacy was EVIL and all its monuments should be eradicated. Frankly, I wouldn't sand blast Stone Mountain... that's merely erasing the figures superficially... Instead, I'd level the whole mountain with high explosives... blast it to smithereens and use the gravel to build a highway and create jobs... Of course, if some sculptor wanted to replace Lee, Davis & Jackson with Sherman & Grant, I might be persuaded to spare the mountaain.
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#8. To: Pinguinite, Willie Green (#7)
Replies to Comment # 8. I guess according to the self-loathing, guilt-ridden pasty-azzed hating whites, ALL antiquity's monuments should be torn down pronto
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