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To: impactplayer

I believe you’ll find that the “monument to domestic terrorism” refers to the KKK. Stone Mountain was the site of the Satanic ritual that was the rebirth of the Klan.

On November 25 of the same year, Thanksgiving Day, a small group, including fifteen robed and hooded “charter members” of the new organization, met at the summit of Stone Mountain to create a new iteration of the Klan. They were led by William J. Simmons, and included two elderly members of the original Klan. As part of their ceremony, they set up on the summit an altar covered with a flag, opened a Bible, and burned a 16-foot cross.

Fundraising for the monument resumed in 1923. In October of that year, Venable granted the Klan easement with perpetual right to hold celebrations as they desired. The influence of the UDC continued, in support of Mrs. Plane’s vision of a carving explicitly for the purpose of creating a Confederate memorial. She suggested in a letter to the first sculptor, Gutzon Borglum:

“I feel it is due to the Klan[,] which saved us from Negro dominations [sic] and carpetbag rule, that it be immortalized on Stone Mountain. Why not represent a small group of them in their nightly uniform approaching in the distance?”


50 posted on 08/06/2018 3:42:28 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

Thanks! I was not aware of that history. So I guess you could say that Democrats (KKK) built it, and now want to tear it down. Trying to forget the past will not make it go away.


52 posted on 08/06/2018 5:17:49 AM PDT by impactplayer
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