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.
Isn’t this like blowing up the Buddahs by the Taliban—and the IS smashing historic statues? Whats next—smashing Washington’ statues because he owned slaves and was white? Do we replace them with statues of Rosa Parks?
Maybe if they would drop ghetto culture and the anti-education mentality mostly in these “hoods” that number would decrease, but do that as a whole is like trying to get granny to climb MT Everest, they are going to keep doing what they are programmed to do half the reason I thank god my family left that area and never looked back and are well educated.
What I really trying to say here is that, is that I am no longer defending them as a whole, they need to get the head out of their ass, realize the current situation they are in and correct it plus adapt to the world and quit wishing for it to be perfect, and if it means them being white breaded so to speak then so be it if it pays the bills.
But- middle class blacks aren’t buying this, really
Blacks block voting at 90 percent for the Democrats says otherwise...
Do we replace them with statues of Rosa Parks?
Nope...Harriet Tubman...
There are more juvenile biography books on her than on Thomas Jefferson...
If you want an eye-opening experience in cultural manipulation, go your local library, and peruse the juvenile section...
I’ll take them seriously when urban yoots stop killing each other and beating up other yoots for making the honor roll.
I have read elsewhere on this forum that about 1/4 are below 80.
The Taliban used artillery; these guys only want to sandblast.
People need to revisit the wheres and why we have a holiday and monuments to MLK,JR. I have no doubt that if he were scrutinized as a hero should be, the holiday would be eliminated and the honors reversed. Turnabout is fair play and the blacks need to see that attacking history can boomerang right back and shed light to the fraud called MLK,Jr.
The Taliban used artillery; these guys only want to sandblast.
So then the differences in method of removal of the allegedly offensive images make a difference how exactly???? not sure of your point.
Blacks block voting at 90 percent for the Democrats says otherwise...
I’ve never understood why blacks vote 90+% Democrat. Do they still feel the need to reward Democrats because of LBJ and the civil rights and voting rights law passed in the ‘60s? If so, they really need a history lesson, because those laws passed with more Republican support than Democrat. Go back and look up the roll call votes on those laws.
You asked what the difference was; I told you the difference.
It the Curse of The Wite Man
the Wite Man have CAUSED all the CHAOS in the whood
the Wite Man Invented That Blood Disease what only bulack peoples get.
the Wite Man brought CARACK unto the whood.
Revrunt Farraklown will be EXPLAININ this AWL at the Just Us or Else festivities all un October!
Salam Shaboogie
I would strongly recommend sandblasting Sharpton and Jacksome..as well as sandblasting the NAACP headquarters in Atlanta.
Yes. Their true colors are showing. They’re not pressing for MLK’s dream of equality, they want absolute dominance with total Orwellian thought control. We cannot work with such people.
And yes, others of their ilk HAVE suggested your “what’s next?”.
Think ill edit the comment— the “private sector” business owner blacks.. middle class.
Not the “gubmint” gibsmedat scam artist middle class blacks and others. No, that “middle class” (which has been dumbed down in actual annual income, by the same govt. that doles it out to them)... that middle class absolutely votes for the gubmint teat.
Hello!
We can SEE what has happened in Africa where the white ruling class went away.
BAck to tribalism and warfare.
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