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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
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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.
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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
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Not some fringe group but a candidate for governor
Well....
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African-American minority leader
He wants votes. This gets his name in the spotlight.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:08 am to ksayetiger
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He wants votes. This gets his name in the spotlight.
While she looks like an offensive lineman, Stacey is not a he.
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 6:33 am to Hangit
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Stacey is not a he.
Whatever.
Just another person worried about unimportant issues instead of real issues of society. She is in the house, i know for a fact her time could be used more wisely
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 6:42 am to DollaChoppa
Muh heritage
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:47 am to jbgleason
Bout time
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:49 am to crewdepoo
virtue signalling vermin
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:51 am to gthog61
After all the civil war stuff is torn down, im just glad African Americans can now move on with their lives and start getting better educations and jobs since this has been holding them back
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:54 am to LSUTigersVCURams
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glorious cultural heritage
Posted on 9/20/17 at 6:56 am to jbgleason
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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 6:59 am to DollaChoppa
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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.
I've been there, it's a pretty cool sight to see. The laser show at night was awesome! I went there about 13 years ago and I didn't associate nor see any association with kkk. Just a massive monument marking some history that should not be forgotten.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:02 am to jbgleason
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Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:04 am to dallastiger55
I fear the docile Euros will forget the dumb stuff the small percentage of the ancestry did and revert back to their despicable ways.
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 7:10 am to SCLibertarian
I tried using that logic when I painted boobs on a wall across from a monastery. Hope the argument works for you, because it didn't work for me. 
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