Every time the bell rings a moonbat in hell has its wings burned off!
Posted on 10/24/2015 11:48:22 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The idea is suffused with a simple poetry: A bell would be placed atop Stone Mountain, the massive granite outcropping east of Atlanta invoked by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his “I Have a Dream” speech — one of the places from which, as Dr. King imagined it, a nation no longer divided by racism might “let freedom ring.”
But this “Freedom Bell” proposal, unveiled this month by a state government authority as a tribute to the civil rights leader, has become mired in complications and controversy, the latest skirmish over Southern symbols prompted by the racially motivated massacre of nine black churchgoers this summer in Charleston, S.C.
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Perhaps more surprisingly, civil rights groups, including two local branches of the N.A.A.C.P. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, are also opposed, largely because a carving of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis etched into the mountain’s northern face — a display that is larger than Mount Rushmore — would remain.
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Ray McBerry, a spokesman for the Georgia Sons of Confederate Veterans, said this week that the group would consider suing to stop the construction of a King memorial at the park. Mr. Steele, along with representatives from the DeKalb County and Atlanta chapters of the N.A.A.C.P., has met with Gov. Nathan Deal to express their displeasure with the plan.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Deal, Jen Talaber, said Tuesday that the governor would seek to arrange a meeting between civil rights groups and the nine-member board of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association and Herschend Family Entertainment, both of which would have to approve of the King memorial. Mr. Stephens said that the board had not yet held a vote on the proposal.
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Every time the bell rings a moonbat in hell has its wings burned off!
Why not a freedom bell? I bet even Lee would support such a thing.
LMAO!
Well that's not sharia compliant. Off with their heads!
Because it’s being put there as a symbol of malicious triumph over an enemy, not a symbol of reconciliation. Think of putting a mosque on the top floor of the Freedom Tower, a U.N. flag atop Mr. Rushmore.
Understand that the real goal is to remove the carving from Stone Mountain entirely, continuing the total eradication of all things “Confederate”. Since this is practically impossible, other symbolic dominance will be applied.
Understand the real goal to eventually eradicate White Western Culture entirely.
It will be also responded to as an act of domination. If it is built, the vandalism and destruction of it will be quite assured and newsworthy.
Indeed.
I don’t think there is any lack of monuments to Martin Luther King in Georgia already. Adding this one will not further honor his memory and, as the opposite side have already said, will not make those who currently hate the Confederate monument feel any better towards it.
For part of the population at least.
How can a small group dictate a whole nation? Stone Mountain is part of southern tradition. It does not need a poke in the eye. Much time and effort was put into the design of the park.
I am a Landscape Architect. In the late 60’s, while at Griswald Winters and Swain, we developed the master plan for the park at Stone Mountain. For the open meadow at the base of the sculpture, we provided individual landscape settings for each of the thirteen confederate states. The individual designs featured each state’s flowers and trees, along with their individual state flag.
Each landscape setting was positioned and chosen based upon the order of each state’s succession and framed so that there was no obscured view of the sculpture. This was many years ago, and was developed to show reverence for southern history: a history that should not be dismissed.
They ARE this country’s Taliban..
There is an enormous monument to MLK just a few miles from Stone Mountain: the MLK Center. There is MLK honorabilia all over Atlanta, and the USA for that matter. There’s even a federal holiday for him, and a month inspired by him.
The MLK bell on Stone Mountain is a symbol of conquest in lieu of demolishing one of the few memorials to Southern history.
MLK bell on Stone Mountain? What is the symbolism of the bell?
It’s clear as a bell that the man was an adulterer and a thief. He stole 40% of his dissertation and even stole the “I have a dream” speech.
Black conquest over whites.
MLK would have hated it.
Are you sure? Didn't he hire white prostitutes and then beat them up?
Because what the NAACP really wants is the removal of the carving on Stone Mountain. Sadly for them Stone Mountain Park is by law a Confederate Memorial and is to be preserved as that and nothing else is supposed to be put in the park. Cerainly not MLK who had nothing to do with the Civil War.
Sadly for them it’s a giant hunk of granite that could survive just about anything short of a direct nuclear blast. Destroying it would take more effort and sophisticated than they are capable off.
I’m not too worried about it. People here would go berserk if they tried to do anything to the monument carving.
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