Remember going there, nice monument.
Can’t allow us Southerners to have our history, culture, and pride. Eff off, BLM.
Regards,
I could see a BLM member of the military stealing an anti-tank weapon and blowing Stone Mountain up...and then facing no charges for it.
Why co.promise anything?
Recall visiting sometime back 20 years ago - all the claims of how large the relief sculpture is are somewhat misleading. While it may be that large, it is in direct reference to a large smooth round stone surface that dwarfs it to relative insignificance.
Being on the NORTHERN side of the mountain in the shade most (if not all) of the day makes it even less imposing. Rushmore, in comparison, is dominating with only the sky to frame much of the outline. On a sunny day, blazing near-white stone makes the effect more impressive.
I wish just once these people would be told, “Shove it, the monument/statue remains.”
Aw, crap. I’m not a big fan of the Confederacy. But the proper response should have been, “If you don’t like it, don’t go there.”
> To get rid of it would require a significant amount of dynamite... <
That would not be a problem for the fascist left. They might even get a government grant. And it’s not like it hasn’t been done before. Here’s the work of another fascist group, the Taliban.
The new, BLM monument will be required visiting for all school children and politicians.
I just hate this. Our monuments and statues should be sacrosanct and harming them a federal offense punishable by lengthy jail time and heavy fines.
I passed by Overton Park recently in Memphis and was saddened to see a stump where Nathan Forest Bedford once stood. The statue of Jeff Davis had also been torn down.
Monuments and statues are torn down in times of revolution.
If that is so, then let’s get on with it.
So they are really going to state in writing that the KKK was founded by the DemonRAT party!
“the 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan on the mountain”
Don’t blame the mountain.
“In spite of its divisiveness, The Birth of a Nation was a huge commercial success and profoundly influenced both the film industry and American culture. The film has been acknowledged as an inspiration for the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, which took place only a few months after its release.”
“The Birth of a Nation, originally called ‘The Clansman’, is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 novel and play ‘The Clansman’. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.”
“The Birth of a Nation is a landmark of film history. It was the first 12-reel film ever made and, at three hours, also the longest up to that point. Its plot, part fiction and part history, chronicles the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth and the relationship of two families in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras over the course of several years—the pro-Union (Northern) Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy (Southern) Camerons. It was originally shown in two parts separated by an intermission, and it was the first to have a musical score for an orchestra. It pioneered close-ups, fade-outs, and a carefully staged battle sequence with hundreds of extras (another first) made to look like thousands.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation
The movie was based on a 1905 book.
“Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden – 1865–1900 (1902) and The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, opposed equal rights for blacks, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted The Clansman for the screen in The Birth of a Nation (1915), which inspired the creators of the 20th-century rebirth of the Klan.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dixon_Jr.
“Dixon grew up after the Civil War, during the Reconstruction period. The government confiscation of farmland, coupled with what Dixon saw as the corruption of local politicians, the vengefulness of Union troops, along with the general lawlessness of the period, all served to embitter him, and he became staunchly opposed to the reforms of Reconstruction.”
“Dixon’s father, Thomas Dixon Sr., and his maternal uncle, Col. Leroy McAfee, both joined the Klan early in the Reconstruction era with the aim of ‘bringing order’ to the tumultuous times. McAfee was head of the Ku Klux Klan in Piedmont, North Carolina.”
How ‘bout telling them to ‘Eff Off in a very loud and public fashion?
People don’t go to Stone Mountain to be preached at.
If you want to destroy Stone Mountain as a tourist attraction, go ahead, ‘compromise.’
The state should immediately craft plans so that if a threat is raised to the monument, it can be sold back into private hands. Or if not sold, then put on an irrevocable 100 year lease to private hands, in either case with tax cessation.
The Egyptians had black slaves, where's the outrage about all of their statues?
Very very disappointed in Bill Stephens, the state appointed CEO of the park for caving to the radicals.
So the KKK part get talked about that the Democrat Party founded it, along with lynching? Or will it be fiction and say that the Trump supporting Americans created the KKK?
Hopefully, the whole history, including the Democrat party's involvement.
Maybe the Democrats can find a large stone outcropping somewhere in Georgia and have a large statue of William Tecumseh Sherman carved out of it...to present the other side.
It can’t be removed because of Georgia law AND its on private property.