Posted on 07/14/2015 3:24:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A sculpture in Georgia larger than a football field – depicting Civil War luminaries Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson – has become the latest target in the push to purge the South of signs of the Confederacy.
The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP called Monday for the elimination of all symbols of the Confederacy from Stone Mountain Park, whose marquee attraction is the 90-foot-high, 190-foot-wide sculpture carved deep into the mountain.
"Those guys need to go,” chapter leader Richard Rose told WSB-TV, referring to Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of America, and the two Confederate generals. “They can be sand-blasted off, or somebody could carefully remove a slab of that and auction it off to the highest bidder.
"My tax dollars should not be used to commemorate slavery,” he added.
In addition to the removal of Confederate symbols from Stone Mountain Park, located outside of Atlanta, the group says it also wants all symbols removed from state-owned buildings, parks and lands.
A spokesman for the park told WSB-TV that any removal of the monuments is up to the Georgia state legislature.
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., who serves the district in which the mountain sits, told local radio station V-103 that he is “not so much affected by Stone Mountain Park as I am by the flag flying at an official government building like a state capitol or even the federal Capitol, a position, the seat of government.”
“I view Stone Mountain as more of a museum-type archaeological place of remembrance for those who want to remember back then and they have a right to remember back then and the park is there,” he said.
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Yawn, no comparison but not surprising retort.
The NAACP should only ‘order’ a pizza....with extra Red sauce. The Chairman would be proud.
Yeah, until too many people come to the park and it tips over.
But I ain't.
Then maybe you can tell us why your opinion matters when both sides who fought in the Civil war and who actually remembered it were ok with monuments and memorials to both sides?
For extra credit explain why they all acted like friends at huge reunions that were popular at many battle sites with Gettysburg 1913 being the largest.
Tell us why your pansy feelings matter more.
Aw, c'mon! You'd love to blow 'em all up, wouldn't you?
Ageeed sir. And your name tells me you would indeed know to laugh about it if it wasn’t so sad.
This is a bad era in America, and people are kidding themselves if they think they wont eventually come for us,,,, demanding obedience.
“Confederate flags or monuments have no business being in any publicly funded place or government building.”
So let me guess, you’re a big fan of Mao’s cultural Revolution? Are you fine with the takeover of Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union and the Soviet purging of their history and the warping of their culture and societies?
They say the Civil War was a war between brothers; are you fine with the erasure of half the family history of America you jackass?
No it isn’t, the Nazis never had a government or a place in America. You are a glittering jewel of ignorance.
Again, if the people who lived through it didn’t mind such displays and monuments,,,, then why should YOUR feelings be more intense than theirs?
President Grant even heard Robert E. Lee wanted to visit him at the White House, so he immediately invited him. They met in private. The men who fought at Gettysburg became friends over BBQ, at their battlefield, under both flags.
But tell us why you know better than them?
Abraham Lincoln waged a war against...some bad people...who wore...a different uniform, and fought under...some other flag that was...different. They lost."
Courthouse? I’ve been to WV twice and everything including kitchen sinks are named after Byrd.
Your comment was so stupid in so many levels that it boggles the mind that you even bother to post at FR.
The Confederate flag was flown by Southern Americans in their fight for freedom. The Nazi flag was flown by Germans out to conquer and destroy. No comparison except by flipping IDIOTS and LOSERS!!
National association for the agitation of confederate people.
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