These Stone Mountain Half Dollars were legal currency in 1925. Now the destroyers of history are in a bind...if they destroy these, they are defacing US currency.
Posted on 01/31/2016 12:16:15 PM PST by PROCON
A Republican lawmaker who says he's grown weary of what he calls "Confederate cleansing" is working to preserve the famous carving of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders on Georgia's Stone Mountain.
"I'm tired of the anti-Confederate rhetoric toward Stone Mountain and any other Confederate monument that's out there," state Rep. Tommy Benton told the Morris News Service. "We're entitled to our heritage just like other people are entitled to theirs, and there seems to be an attempt to do Confederate cleansing."
He continued: "I refer to that more as cultural terrorism than anything. They're attacking us for no reason at all. We've not done anything to provoke them or anything else. They're very similar to what's going on in the Middle East with ISIS that's destroying all those mosques and temples and everything because they don't agree with that history over there, so they're just destroying it and doing away with it."
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The Confederacy is a part of our American heritage, whether they like it or not.
It will be rehabilitated at a later time. Hopefully not too late for Stone Mountain, but it sounds discouraging. How about leaving it up in honor of the artists that created it?
Cultural terrorism?
It is cultural revolution, just like the Communists and Islamists have done for hundred-hundreds of years.
Bury the past, deny it ever was.
We are living in a very uncivil time, Like the Obama said Fundamentally Change America!!
Bravo! Get those monuments, statues and carvings landmarked.
mount Rushmore has a slave owner on it.
is that what’s next?
Ethnically cleansing the American South of its history.
Brought to you by Barack Obama and his GOPe/neocon collaborators like Nimrata ‘Nikki Haley’ Randhawa.
We pledge our fealty to politically correct post-America.
I’m a Yank, and I say let the south keep their heritage. It’s a part of our American heritage.
I don’t understand why the Democrat Party isn’t banned from virtually every public venue, due to its absolute responsibility for slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow and segregation.
Shouldn’t the Democrat Party be sued and required to liquidate its assets to pay reparations to black people?
Shouldn’t the Democrat Party be as unwelcome publicly as the American Nazi party?
These Stone Mountain Half Dollars were legal currency in 1925. Now the destroyers of history are in a bind...if they destroy these, they are defacing US currency.
“mount Rushmore has a slave owner on it.”
Two slave owners and an American imperialist.
The new, improved Mount Rushmore will feature Lincoln, Obama, and two players to be named later.
This assault on heritage is having justifiable backlash.
It's just a matter of time, they want to replace ALL remembrances of our great heritage.
Bravo!
If we didn't live in Bizarro world, yes.
Half of them had the good senses to not be for that stuff back then.
Unfortunately they formed the nucleus of the Democrats that held on long enough for the ones in the south to get back on their feet, join forces, and make a mess of everything.
It’s about time somebody stood up to this cleansing. Even if people aren’t from the South and these figures don’t have any particular resonance for them, for Pete’s sake, they’re an important part of American history. You can’t just wipe them out. It’s insane.
It’s about time somebody woke up!
http://www.kmbc.com/news/lawrence-student-banned-from-displaying-confederate-flag/37706524
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