Posted on 07/15/2015 1:21:05 PM PDT by servo1969
The Atlanta chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has proposed that the sculpture of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and General "Stonewall" Jackson be sand blasted off the side of Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Chapter leader Richard Rose is telling local news outlets, "Those guys need to go."
They can be sand-blasted off, or somebody could carefully remove a slab of that and auction it off to the highest bidder.
All of this recognition of Confederate generals is upholding the white supremacy on which the Confederacy was founded and the war was fought.
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.
Rose said he would be "elated" if they could start immediately in removing the Civil War history from the rock. He suggested adding back historical figures who are considered "instrumental in bringing peace between the races."
It is interesting to note that Stone Mountain Park boasts the largest bas-relief carving in the world, larger than two football fields. The project was begun in 1916 and was headed by lead sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who abandoned the project in 1925 and went on to sculpt Mount Rushmore. It took at least three decades for work to continue when the state of Georgia purchased the mountain and commissioned the carving to continue. It was completed in 1972.
Rose did not comment on whether the phrase "colored people" is historically offensive, nor did he suggest renaming his organization.
Better idea. Tell them I will honor their heritage so long as they honor mine. This is starting to piss me off.
Geez. I coulda sworn that it was slavery that never happened. Just like the holocaust.
Yeah, well, good luck with that.
There isn't that much sand in the Sahara...
Just supposing that if any organized effort to do that, the south may rise up again and with much more voracity than the Civil War.
Well I’m all for sandblasting Sheila Jackson Lee !
There are many Walking Dead that look better than many racist non-whites.
Ah,,,, ya beat me to it!
How did you get this past the pearl-clutching mods?
Enquiring minds ..
People who deface/want to deface monuments are offensive-not the monuments-these people need the sandblasting...
The police hunt down young Black men in the streets and murder them with impunity! Blacks are still slaves and the White man is the Devil!
Dems can't win unless they gin up black hatred. It's all dems got - well until they 'legalize' another 60 million Mexicans...
Bobby, we haven’t done a damn thing and they are removing civil war statues/flags daily! not a single southern protest to my knowledge. it’s not going to stop unless we take a stand very soon. i am going to predict they will go after confederate victory battlefields at some point. bull doze them and put all artifacts in some remote museum. this is not going to end well unless we stand together and very soon. imo.
Stupid people destroy the history they don't like... does the NAACP really want to be seen as being as vile as ISIS?
These bastages learned really well from isis. Dynamite history. Contemptible!
Ugly ain’t the problem.
Now, if you could figure out how to sandblast the stupid away, well heck, I’d bet the ranch and be a ground floor backer ;-)
Sounds a lot like someone we all know in the White Hut
Rose said he would be “elated” if they could start immediately in removing the Civil War history from the rock. He suggested adding back historical figures who are considered “instrumental in bringing peace between the races.”
Come on Rose I dare you...you know you want.....just say it....Obama!
Then we should get rid of Mt. Rushmore. There’s a few slave owners on that one.
Rename every MLK Boulevard in the country for one of the Confederate generals.
That’s their plan. They want to tear down the Jefferson memorial in DC too
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