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NAACP still pushing to sandblast Confederate leaders from Stone Mountain
Hot Air.com ^ | July 20, 2015 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 07/20/2015 7:21:05 PM PDT by Kaslin

Once the Confederate Battle Flag came down on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol complex, the Left had won their great victory and everyone could go home and get on with their lives, right? (I’ll pause for a moment so everyone can finish laughing.) Of course not. Nothing is ever truly going to be enough, and the NAACP has been on a push for more than a week with a larger target in mind. A much, much larger target. They would like the 90 by 190 foot sculpture at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia sandblasted from the face of the mountain. Rising 400 feet above the ground, it’s the largest, highest outdoor relief sculpture in the world and depicts Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. And if the NAACP gets their way, it’s going to be destroyed.

The famous outdoor relief sculpture depicting Confederate leaders on Stone Mountain in Georgia has come under attack from the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP. The chapter’s leader is calling for the removal of the Confederate Memorial Carving that depicts Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

A press release from Richard Rose, the president of the Atlanta chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, calls for the elimination of the Confederate carving, calling it a “glorification of white supremacy.”

“It is time for Georgia and other Southern states to end the glorification of slavery and white supremacy paid for and maintained with the taxes of all its citizens,” the release states.

Mr. Rose is really big on the tax dollars issue, and when the public purse is involved he has a point: people should have a say in how their money is spent. Or at least Rose would have a good point were it not for one inconvenient fact. The statue is maintained by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association and their funding isn’t coming from the taxpayer’s purse.

The Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA), a State of Georgia authority, is self-supporting and receives no tax dollars, is responsible for Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park.

SMMA was created in 1958 by an Act of the Georgia Legislature. This legislation, the Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 12-3-190 is also known as the “Stone Mountain Memorial Association Act”. From its original creation and through amendments to the Act, the purpose of the Association is for the proper development, management, preservation, and protection of Stone Mountain as a Confederate Memorial and public recreation area.

Further, this isn’t the State Capitol grounds. It’s a park. Its operational costs are covered through hosting events and private fundraising. And part of their fundamental mission is educational in nature.

We should have known (and some of us predicted) that this was far from over. As long as this is a bone which the SJW feels like they can gnaw on to positive political effect and press their advantage, this isn’t going to stop. And as long as our elected leaders keep kowtowing in fear and offering weak excuses, the results will be the same every time. Go see the memorial while you can. The way things are going this year there may actually be a crew up there with dynamite before winter arrives. That’s sad, too. I’ve been to the park and it’s simply breathtaking.

Once again, we should never forget: You Will Be Made to Care.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; confederate; dixie; georgia; jeffersondavis; memorials; naacp; naacptaliban; naacptalipan; nationalparks; robertelee; staceyabrams; statues; stonemountain; stonewalljackson
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To: Kaslin
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21 posted on 07/20/2015 7:40:59 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: Kaslin

Do they really thknk this is why people dont like them ? Idiots


22 posted on 07/20/2015 7:41:29 PM PDT by Carry me back (.)
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To: Kaslin

“We should have known (and some of us predicted) that this was far from over”.

Once again, thank the stupid party, the Republican Party for kick-starting this purge of all things Confederate. What would the democrats do without them?


23 posted on 07/20/2015 7:42:59 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: LucyT

Dr. Murray, Dr. Herrnstein - white courtesy telephone please.


24 posted on 07/20/2015 7:48:49 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Kaslin

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Stone_Mountain_Carving_2.jpg/1920px-Stone_Mountain_Carving_2.jpg


25 posted on 07/20/2015 7:49:50 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Kaslin

The NAACP is bunch of “human righter” pukes!!!!

Right now, when we NEED the idea of a Confederacy more than ever (as the alternative to the United States of Queerdom), they want to destroy any trace of its symbols and monuments. PHOOEY!!!!


26 posted on 07/20/2015 7:50:27 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Kaslin

I demand they change their name.

“Colored People” is racist!


27 posted on 07/20/2015 7:55:06 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: LukeL

Exactly.....where does it stop?

-Mt. Rushmore: George and Tom owned slaves, and Abe didn’t believe in racial equality
-Washington Monument: same
-Jefferson Memorial: same
-Lincoln Memorial: same
-US Capitol: built using slave labor
-Grant’s Tomb: yup


28 posted on 07/20/2015 7:55:16 PM PDT by ALASKA (Disgusted.....)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

How about a tactical nuke in N. Minneapolis?


At this point, what difference would it make?


29 posted on 07/20/2015 7:55:40 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Kaslin

“And if the NAACP gets their way, it’s going to be destroyed.”

And if the NAACP gets their way, it’s going to restart the Civil War.


30 posted on 07/20/2015 8:02:15 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: ctdonath2

If the NAACP tries to destroy Stone Mountain, I think that will be the final straw. It just might start the fighting back.


31 posted on 07/20/2015 8:07:03 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Kaslin

FU NAALCP


32 posted on 07/20/2015 8:08:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin
"NAACP still pushing to sandblast Confederate leaders from Stone Mountain...."

...... Well .... Why don't we just compromise on this ... and just Sandblast the NAACP.....

33 posted on 07/20/2015 8:39:35 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: MeshugeMikey

> How about we sandblast Sharpton and Jacksome?

I agree. Or sandblast the NAACP headquarters in Atlanta.


34 posted on 07/20/2015 8:39:56 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

They want a race riot before the end of summer, preferably in the “racist” South, but OK if it’s Southie Boston, or South Chi-town. The South is not going to do it, but they will keep pushing.


35 posted on 07/20/2015 9:01:03 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ALASKA

Now you’re getting it. It is the goals list of the Communist Party USA, push the black white division to the max. But- middle class blacks aren’t buying this, really. It’s the ghetto types and bangers that love the excuse.

Oh, and amnesty from obamaumao has brought in illegals to take black jobs mostly, but they will never acknowledge that.


36 posted on 07/20/2015 9:04:13 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: LucyT

a substantial minority — apparently more than one in five — of American blacks have IQs below 75. Around one in twenty whites are below 75.

http://library.flawlesslogic.com/iq.htm


37 posted on 07/20/2015 9:05:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: yarddog

Most of them believe whitey to be so cowed, that they are actually willing to risk it.

The problem is with civil wars, everyone is going to know someone who got chopped regardless of their political affiliation.

I do think all these dumbass college kids who think it’s cool to be down for the struggle will have an epiphany when rounds go downrange.


38 posted on 07/20/2015 9:49:23 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Kaslin
NAACP still pushing to sandblast Confederate leaders from Stone Mountain

Or they'll kill another black man!

Black Mississippi Confederate flag supporter dies after rally when 'car full of jeering African

39 posted on 07/20/2015 10:12:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Kaslin
I propose a simple solution:

Those suggesting the removal of the sculpture on Stone Mountain should be the ones to attempt the removal. No one else...not the state, not the Feds, not the UN, not some other proxy organization. Equipment will be provided to do so.
And, on the other side, those opposed to the removal will be provided the equipment to repulse the removal efforts. Not questions will be asked, and no recriminations will be made, as to the results.

40 posted on 07/20/2015 10:15:36 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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