Posted on 07/14/2015 3:24:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A sculpture in Georgia larger than a football field – depicting Civil War luminaries Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson – has become the latest target in the push to purge the South of signs of the Confederacy.
The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP called Monday for the elimination of all symbols of the Confederacy from Stone Mountain Park, whose marquee attraction is the 90-foot-high, 190-foot-wide sculpture carved deep into the mountain.
"Those guys need to go,” chapter leader Richard Rose told WSB-TV, referring to Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of America, and the two Confederate generals. “They can be sand-blasted off, or somebody could carefully remove a slab of that and auction it off to the highest bidder.
"My tax dollars should not be used to commemorate slavery,” he added.
In addition to the removal of Confederate symbols from Stone Mountain Park, located outside of Atlanta, the group says it also wants all symbols removed from state-owned buildings, parks and lands.
A spokesman for the park told WSB-TV that any removal of the monuments is up to the Georgia state legislature.
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., who serves the district in which the mountain sits, told local radio station V-103 that he is “not so much affected by Stone Mountain Park as I am by the flag flying at an official government building like a state capitol or even the federal Capitol, a position, the seat of government.”
“I view Stone Mountain as more of a museum-type archaeological place of remembrance for those who want to remember back then and they have a right to remember back then and the park is there,” he said.
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You read that raising the Confederate flag constitutes reconfiguring the confederacy in that thread. I hope you aren’t that stupid.
Arguing “what-ifs” with the liberal confederate bashing crowd here is at FR is pointless. Society has never been static. IF you don’t think sociological mores don’t change with time, then maybe you need a primer on the subject.
First off...I fully defend the right of free expression if someone wants to fly the battle Flag Of the Northern Virgina regement.
Second, your statment was :
“There are no heritage supporting Freepers calling for the reforming of the Confederacy”
Unfortunately in that thread there ARE people openly calling for states to secede again...and defending the right of the confederacy to secede in the first place.
And as you might be able to tell...this is hardly a new debate topic around here.
You can count those on probably one hand. 99% of those voicing their opinion are like me, wanting to honor their ancestors who served, and also preserve traditions that are true and conservative. And honestly those who call for reforming the confederacy are stating in in vented anger, and sure don't agree with the practice of slavery.
Hey, NAACP, STFU!
Oh I get that completely.
And yes it’s only a handfull here.
None the less the element remains.
That’s why the squishy moderates are bolting or rolling over on the matter like other FR posters.
And the liberals wont be happy with a few snatch and grabs of flags off of private property either.....they wont be happy until mobs show up and burn people out.
For me this is a matter of free expression and Historical preservation and I can easily make that disticntion without supporting the confederacy.....but then again I’m not a squishy moderate.
That CBF you bought, stuff it up your keester.
Obama et al would be your problem; not mine.
Is that anyway to talk about the CBF General? Stuffing things up your keester might float your boat but it don’t float mine.
The second you touched it it was desecrated.
So values like having the liberty to honor my ancestors doesn't count? You are so condescendingly hypocritical it makes me want to puke.
I can see you with a shovel digging up old confederate soldiers, Proud of that?
They belong in EVERY public building...just to piss off LIB pc idiots.
According to a small minority on FR, you are not allowed to honor your ancestors on both sides of the war. These folks do not understand what it is to be a proud Southerner. Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman were more magnanimous after the war.
The d--weed can go f himself, as far as I am concerned.
I agree 100%.
Before you want to dig up some confederate soldiers, you might want to review this: (Compliments of RWN)
Just for the record:
CONFEDERATE Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines that fought in the Civil War were made U.S. Veterans by Act Of Congress in 1957. Reference U.S. Public Law 85-425, Section 410, Approved 23 May 1958.
This made all CONFEDERATE Army, Navy, Marine Veterans equal to U.S. Veterans. Additionally, under U.S. Public Law 810, approved by Congress on 26 Feb 1929, the War Department was directed to erect headstones, and recognize CONFEDERATE grave sites as U.S. War Grave Sites.
So think of this numbnuts before you want to participate in digging up any CONFEDERATE Soldiers.
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