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re: We all knew it was coming - calls to destroy Stone Mountain in GA
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:20 am to dallastiger55
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:20 am to dallastiger55
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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
Ditto that! Ought to see numbers of welfare & food stamp recipients plunge. Unless they find something else to blame for their failures.
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Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:25 am to jbgleason
Good thing it's a private park
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:30 am to SCLibertarian
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Why can't people admire Stone Mountain for what it is? A very beautiful example of stone etching.
Bc it needs to be of MLK.
All statues must be MLK.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:30 am to biglego
quote:Just don't make every street MLK
All statues must be MLK.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:32 am to LewDawg
I wish I owned this park.
I'd call this dude, not email or text Him and say it's mine bitch, I own it.
Go get fricked.
Not coming down, stay woke and stay mad.
The day can't get here quick enough where as people decide to get off whiteys nuts and move on to another source of whining and butthurt.
I'd call this dude, not email or text Him and say it's mine bitch, I own it.
Go get fricked.
Not coming down, stay woke and stay mad.
The day can't get here quick enough where as people decide to get off whiteys nuts and move on to another source of whining and butthurt.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:37 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.
Not saying I would be in favor of this... It's a beautiful place and I love history.
I was there in 1992 as a teenager and again in 2008 as a parent.
Both times I thought about the links to the KKK and what black folks must think of the park/mountain. And as a parent how I would explain that only white people visit Stone Mountain to my kids.
I just figured blacks would stay away and spend their time at other parks.
It most definitely was just a matter of time in the current climate. But again I don't support the destruction of the monument.
This post was edited on 9/20/17 at 7:40 am
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:40 am to LewDawg
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Good thing it's a private park
It's owned by the State of Georgia.
They just contract with a private company to run it.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:42 am to LSUBoo
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It's owned by the State of Georgia.
They just contract with a private company to run it.
An interesting quickie from Wiki indicates they saw this coming.
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A proposal was made to remove the Confederate carving from Stone Mountain Park.[18] However, according to Georgia state law, no one is allowed to alter the figures carved upon the stone face. Any changes within the state park would require approval by the state legislature.[19]
Stone Mountain Wikidoodles
This post was edited on 9/20/17 at 7:43 am
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:42 am to SCLibertarian
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If the Sistine Chapel had a picture of a slave trader on it these same people would want it destroyed.
Abraham not only owned slaves but raped them as well.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:48 am to LewDawg
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Just don't make every street MLK
pssshhhh... too late for that
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:52 am to LucasP
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Honestly didn't know this existed until reading this, but rest assured I am thoroughly outraged now.
This is one of your better posts, lucas
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 7:58 am to mikelbr
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just figured blacks would stay away and spend their time at other parks
And you claim to have been twice? The majority of people there on any given weekend are blacks and hispanics.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:59 am to ksayetiger
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This is one of your better posts, lucas
Thanks!!! Did you notice how it's purposefully vague to indicate that either side of the argument being outraged is stupid? I'm clever and subtle as shite!!!!
Posted on 9/20/17 at 8:01 am to SamuelClemens
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And you claim to have been twice? The majority of people there on any given weekend are blacks and hispanics.
You think I'm lying, you little bitch?
I saw Mexicans and white folks. I was specifically looking for blacks in 08 to see if they came. A busload of inner-city kids on a Summer Camp field trip don't count(which is all I saw).
Definitely not families driving from Atlanta for the laser show.
This post was edited on 9/20/17 at 8:02 am
Posted on 9/20/17 at 8:01 am to DollaChoppa
54 downvotes for that is pretty hilarious, but not surprising.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 8:02 am to LewDawg
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Just don't make every street MLK
In every city I've ever been in with a street named MLK, it was undoubtedly the worst street in that city. Filled with nothing but thug arse knee grows. MLK was just a well spoken BLM grand wizard.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 8:04 am to Spunky
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In every city I've ever been in with a street named MLK, it was undoubtedly the worst street in that city. Filled with nothing but thug arse knee grows. MLK was just a well spoken BLM grand wizard.
What THE Dickens?
Tigerlee, MJ2, and Fr33. Spunky wants in the club.
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54 downvotes for that is pretty hilarious, but not surprising.
Yea no shite. Reminds me of the "it's dark out here" post when LSU played at SU in Baseball. The upvotes were hilariously disturbing.
This post was edited on 9/20/17 at 8:06 am
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......
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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.
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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 8:15 am to LewDawg
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Just don't make every street MLK
We've already made all the streets Peachtree in Atlanta
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