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We all knew it was coming - calls to destroy Stone Mountain in GA
Posted on 9/20/17 at 5:58 am
Posted on 9/20/17 at 5:58 am
This is for real. Not some fringe group but a candidate for governor and others calling for the Stone Mountain carving to be blasted off of the face of the mountain. Seems like we are only steps away from being just like ISIS in our treatment of history and symbols we don't like.
LINK to Washington Post
quote:
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - Of all the Confederate monuments under fire, few are more figuratively weighted - and literally fixed - than the 1,700-foot-high outcropping of granite outside Atlanta with carvings of Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Jefferson Davis. Covering more than 17,000 square feet of mountain and 40 feet deep in the crannies, the carving is reportedly the largest flat relief sculpture in the world. Looming over a popular public park like a Stone Age billboard, it was conceived by Southern Confederate groups a century ago, was the birthplace of the modern Ku Klux Klan and remains an icon for white supremacists. Now, calls to remove what may be the planet's largest Confederate monument have roiled Georgia's gubernatorial election and sparked what could be the most complex of the hot-button Rebel memorial fights erupting across the country.
quote:
Stacey Abrams, the African-American minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, last month declared the carving "a blight on our state" and called for its removal. Several Atlanta Democrats and the local NAACP joined her. Many Republicans and Southern heritage groups condemned her position as divisive.
LINK to Washington Post
This post was edited on 9/20/17 at 6:00 am
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Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:01 am to jbgleason
quote:
Not some fringe group but a candidate for governor
Well....
quote:
African-American minority leader
He wants votes. This gets his name in the spotlight.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:08 am to jbgleason
I mean, I think getting rid of the carving is a no brainer. It's history is much worse than any confederate statue thats been taken down. Funded by the KKK, site of the KKK revival, plus its only been complete for like 40 years. Not really much history behind it or connected to it besides its KKK association.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:21 am to jbgleason
It's sad but since the white south is too cucked out to do anything about it we are probably going to see every indicia of our glorious cultural heritage get bulldozed in our lifetime
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:31 am to jbgleason
Uh, aren't you in jail for shooting two black people and a house? Let it go grand wizard.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:39 am to jbgleason
This is the one that will cost people's lives, imo.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:47 am to jbgleason
Bout time
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:56 am to jbgleason
quote:
Stone Mountain in GA
Honestly didn't know this existed until reading this, but rest assured I am thoroughly outraged now.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:02 am to jbgleason
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Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:05 am to jbgleason
Why can't people admire Stone Mountain for what it is? A very beautiful example of stone etching. It's a fine piece of artwork. Seriously, statues and monuments are safer with the Taliban than they are with progressives. If the Sistine Chapel had a picture of a slave trader on it these same people would want it destroyed.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:25 am to jbgleason
Good thing it's a private park
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:56 am to jbgleason
It's a crappy park anyways. And while they are at it, close off Hwy 78 from I-285 and relieve some of that traffic that makes that stretch of 285 crawl day or night.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 8:14 am to jbgleason
this is the one that can be the easiest tied to supremacy.
In 1915 the property owner had two big gatherings. The first to promote the monument and start the fundraising effort.
The second to restart the twenty year defunct KKK, which was again restarted here in 1948.
In 1915 there was the first big blockbuster movie, The Birth Of A Nation. Which promoted the KKK as heroes of the south and directly led to the refounding of the order that same year.
The artist who did the carving (who also did Mt Rushmore) supported the KKK, and the movie even donated a good bit if capital for the project.
All that said, and honestly so. It can be used as a symbol for white supremacy, but anything can. Look at what the Nazis did to a prehistoric symbol of peace.
The fact remnants, that this is a treasure. This is one of the greatest carvings of all time.
Regardless of subject. Statues cast in brass are one thing. This here is a treasure.
I've seen it and it's very impressive. Sure they have a lot of racist people who use it for supremacy, but they also have many more who see it as a work of art from one of are nation's great sculptors, Gutzon Borglun. (Or at least started by him, he left after ten years, it took further decades to finish the three men, when the original idea called for a backdrop of hundreds of soldiers.
But then......
Don't help. Also, about it being private property.
In 1915 the property owner had two big gatherings. The first to promote the monument and start the fundraising effort.
The second to restart the twenty year defunct KKK, which was again restarted here in 1948.
In 1915 there was the first big blockbuster movie, The Birth Of A Nation. Which promoted the KKK as heroes of the south and directly led to the refounding of the order that same year.
The artist who did the carving (who also did Mt Rushmore) supported the KKK, and the movie even donated a good bit if capital for the project.
All that said, and honestly so. It can be used as a symbol for white supremacy, but anything can. Look at what the Nazis did to a prehistoric symbol of peace.
The fact remnants, that this is a treasure. This is one of the greatest carvings of all time.
Regardless of subject. Statues cast in brass are one thing. This here is a treasure.
I've seen it and it's very impressive. Sure they have a lot of racist people who use it for supremacy, but they also have many more who see it as a work of art from one of are nation's great sculptors, Gutzon Borglun. (Or at least started by him, he left after ten years, it took further decades to finish the three men, when the original idea called for a backdrop of hundreds of soldiers.
But then......
quote:
Borglum agreed to include a Ku Klux Klan altar in his plans for the memorial to acknowledge a request of Helen Plane in 1915, who wrote to him: "I feel it is due to the KKK that saved us from Negro domination and carpetbag rule, that it be immortalized on Stone Mountain"
Don't help. Also, about it being private property.
quote:
Stone Mountain was once owned by the Venable Brothers and was the site of the founding of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915. It was purchased by the State of Georgia in 1958.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 8:33 am to jbgleason
1. Determine cost to destroy said sculpture
2. Get approval from voters for replacement sculpture
3. Let those offended pay for both
Once there's WORK involved those offended will disappear.
2. Get approval from voters for replacement sculpture
3. Let those offended pay for both
Once there's WORK involved those offended will disappear.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 8:36 am to jbgleason
Too bad whites don't have the balls to demand that every MLK statue and street be bulldozed or renamed. You know that serial womanizer and communist who Jackie Kennedy herself called a "terrible phony."
Posted on 9/20/17 at 9:03 am to jbgleason
quote:
Stacey Abrams, the African-American minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor
If she wins I'm moving to another state.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 9:04 am to jbgleason
quote:I would hazard a guess that today Stacey's mom does not have it "goin' on".
Stacey Abrams, the African-American minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, last month declared the carving "a blight on our state" and called for its removal.
Circa 1990:
IWNHI
Posted on 9/20/17 at 9:08 am to jbgleason
I have seen it in person and it is massive. Good luck to the efforts to remove it. It would be a serious undertaking of both time and money.
And in the end there would be an ugly scar on the mountain.
And in the end there would be an ugly scar on the mountain.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 9:09 am to jbgleason
Wow...another reason for blacks to complain about.....go live in Syria
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