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NAACP wants Stone Mountain sandblasted
Posted on 7/15/15 at 3:45 am
Posted on 7/15/15 at 3:45 am
Several posters predicted this a week ago when the flag was a hot topic. I scoffed at the idea. The flag is one thing but a national monument carved into the side of a mountain is another. We aren't the Taliban after all. Well... Boy was I wrong.
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Atlanta NAACP chapter calls for removal of massive Confederate sculpture in public park
A sculpture in Georgia larger than a football field – depicting Civil War luminaries Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson – has become the latest target in the push to purge the South of signs of the Confederacy.
The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP called Monday for the elimination of all symbols of the Confederacy from Stone Mountain Park, whose marquee attraction is the 90-foot-high, 190-foot-wide sculpture carved deep into the mountain.
Those guys need to go,” chapter leader Richard Rose told WSB-TV, referring to Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of America, and the two Confederate generals. “They can be sand-blasted off, or somebody could carefully remove a slab of that and auction it off to the highest bidder.
"My tax dollars should not be used to commemorate slavery,” he added.
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Atlanta NAACP chapter calls for removal of massive Confederate sculpture in public park
A sculpture in Georgia larger than a football field – depicting Civil War luminaries Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson – has become the latest target in the push to purge the South of signs of the Confederacy.
The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP called Monday for the elimination of all symbols of the Confederacy from Stone Mountain Park, whose marquee attraction is the 90-foot-high, 190-foot-wide sculpture carved deep into the mountain.
Those guys need to go,” chapter leader Richard Rose told WSB-TV, referring to Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of America, and the two Confederate generals. “They can be sand-blasted off, or somebody could carefully remove a slab of that and auction it off to the highest bidder.
"My tax dollars should not be used to commemorate slavery,” he added.
This post was edited on 7/15/15 at 3:50 am
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Posted on 7/15/15 at 3:46 am to jbgleason
Tell us how you really feel
Posted on 7/15/15 at 4:07 am to jbgleason
NAACP can go frick themselves if they don't like America or the first amendment they can get out.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 4:15 am to jbgleason
I'm guessing the want a black guy on there instead
Posted on 7/15/15 at 4:33 am to Macintosh504
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I'm guessing the want a black guy on there instead
Maybe they can put one up of Martin Luther King Jr. I mean he embezzled money from the church to pay for his hookers. The same hookers he would beat up. Instead of calling it Stone Mountain, they can rename it Bone Mountain.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 4:56 am to whiskeyjohn
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Maybe they can put one up of Martin Luther King Jr. I mean he embezzled money from the church to pay for his hookers. The same hookers he would beat up. Instead of calling it Stone Mountain, they can rename it Bone Mountain.
I believe he cheated on his wife, but this statement is retarded.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 4:57 am to DBeaux225
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I believe he cheated on his wife, but this statement is retarded
OK... maybe the Bone Mountain part but the rest is factual and very well known by those that were closest to him.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 5:08 am to jbgleason
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My tax dollars should not be used to commemorate slavery,” he added.
We pay the desendant of slave owners 400,000 a year. Let's start there.
This post was edited on 7/15/15 at 6:11 am
Posted on 7/15/15 at 5:36 am to whiskeyjohn
If he were alive today, would he be any different from AL Sharpton or jessy Jackson
Posted on 7/15/15 at 5:39 am to jbgleason
I want the naacp sandblasted.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 5:46 am to jbgleason
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The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP called Monday for the elimination of all symbols of the Confederacy from Stone Mountain Park, whose marquee attraction is the 90-foot-high, 190-foot-wide sculpture carved deep into the mountain.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 5:46 am to eScott
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If he were alive today, would he be any different from AL Sharpton or jessy Jackson
Good question, from the speeches I heard it seems his message was different than theirs. He probably would not have gotten the publicity to carry his thoughts though. I do think if he would be alive today he would be appalled by his people's actions.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 5:52 am to jbgleason
I would like the NAACP to be sandblasted.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 5:54 am to jbgleason
"As the Divide in this country grows"
I would lose my shite if this happens.
I would lose my shite if this happens.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 5:59 am to rantfan
It's an honest question. I don't think he's an al Sharpton but from the impression I get from his family, if he was anything like them, I'm not sure.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 6:01 am to jbgleason
Heres their leader
Posted on 7/15/15 at 6:04 am to jbgleason
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"My tax dollars should not be used to...
That's rich
Posted on 7/15/15 at 6:04 am to jbgleason
Of course they do.
This however, unlike most of the other cleaning projects, will be very expensive. Are they gonna pay the tab?
This however, unlike most of the other cleaning projects, will be very expensive. Are they gonna pay the tab?
Posted on 7/15/15 at 6:05 am to jbgleason
Best part is that it is not supported by taxes. Park is privately operated and self sufficient.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 6:06 am to OBReb6
quote:no, white people who work would
Are they gonna pay the tab?
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