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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Right after all references to the communist mlk are removed.
“My tax dollars should not be used to commemorate slavery,” he added.
“My tax dollars should not be used to pay for those too lazy to find real work,” I add.
won’t happen without troops.
Whats the difference between leftists and the Taliban/ISIS?
Hell, even one blows up babies and another sells baby parts.
Whats a monument or two?
The left will only find something new to complain about.
Stone Mountain Park has delighted guests for 50 years but people have visited the area around the mountain for much longer.
Timeline
•1838 – Aaron Cloud built the first tourist attraction on the top of the mountain. The wooden tower was 165 feet tall with a 40 foot square base. There was a $0.50 charge to climb the tower.
•1849 – The tower blew down during a storm and was never rebuilt.
•1865-1877 – Reconstruction rebuilds the railways and in turn restores tourism and Stone Mountain’s quarrying industry. Granite is shipped all over the world. It was used at the federal gold depository at Fort Knox, the Panama Canal, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, and in the foundation of the Lincoln Memorial, just to name a few. Virtually every state has a building that uses Stone Mountain granite.
•1887 – The Venable Brothers bought all of Stone Mountain for $48,000 and ran the quarrying operations.
•1915 – Gutzon Borglum, a famous sculptor, drew up the first sketches of the memorial, for Mrs. Helen Plane, a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). She was the first person to talk about putting a memorial carving on the mountain.
•1916 – Samuel H. Venable leased the north face of the mountain to the UDC on the condition that a suitable monument be completed in 12 years. Lack of funding and World War I delayed the start of the carving until 1923.
•June 23, 1923 – Carving begins on Stone Mountain.
•1924 – Borglum finished the head of Robert E. Lee and unveiled it on Lee’s birthday, January 19.
•Feb. 19, 1924 – Committee overseeing the construction of Stone Mountain votes to cancel Gutzon Borglum’s contract, following Borglum’s outburst in the local papers over problems with the project. Borglum went on to carve the figures on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
•April 1, 1925 – Sculptor Augustus Lukeman takes over the project. He suggests that three men, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, be enshrined on the face of the mountain.
•April 9, 1928 – After blasting Gutzon Borglum’s work from the face of the mountain, Augustus Lukeman unveils his work.
•May 20, 1928 – The Venables reclaim Stone Mountain, ending any attempt to complete the sculpture. Lukeman was only able to get the figures of Lee and Davis finished before this time.
•1944 – First Easter Sunrise Service first held.
•April 11, 1956 – The Venable family signs a quit claim deed for the area encompassing Stone Mountain, giving it to Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, Inc.
•1958 – The State of Georgia purchased Stone Mountain and the surrounding land to create a 3,200 acre park. Focus was placed on development for recreation and entertainment and the completion of the carving.
•Feb. 21, 1958 – Gov. Marvin Griffin signs a bill creating the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, superseding the old Authority.
•Sept. 19, 1958 – Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, Inc. gives Stone Mountain to the state of Georgia.
•April 12, 1962 – The Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad opens at Stone Mountain Park.
•April 26, 1962 – The first Stone Mountain train, General II, pulled out of the station.
•Nov. 28, 1962 – The Skylift opens at Stone Mountain Park. Governor Ernest Vandiver and Swiss Ambassador August Lindt attend the ceremony.
•April 16, 1963 – The Antebellum Plantation opens at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park.
•1963 – The Antique Car and Treasure Museum and Confederate Hall opens at Stone Mountain Park.
•July 4, 1964 – Carving resumes on the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial. It was under the direction of Walter Hancock. Roy Faulkner was the work crew foreman.
•1964 – The Carillon is donated by the Coca-Cola Company after its exhibit at the World’s Fair in New York City.
•1964 – The Riverboat Complex opens for the first time.
•April 14, 1965 – Stone Mountain Park officially opens, operated by Berlio of Georgia, Inc.
•1965 – Construction on the Stone Mountain Inn is completed.
•1965 – The Grist Mill and Covered Bridge are moved to Stone Mountain Park from Elijay, GA and Athens, GA respectively.
•1967 – The Fantastic Fourth Celebration first held.
•1968 – An 18-hole Golf Course designed by Robert Trent Jones opens.
•1968 – Beach opens at Stone Mountain Park.
•1968 – Yellow Daisy Festival is first held at Stone Mountain Park.
•May 9, 1970 – Dedication services are held for the carving although work continues through 1972. Vice president Spiro Agnew attends instead of President Nixon.
•March 3, 1972 – The Stone Mountain Carving is completed.
I’ve been on that lawn many a time for the nightly laser show and fireworks.
Just try taking it down, brotha.... I think a few Bubba’s will block any construction equipment brought in to remove it, assuming there are any equipment operators in the South that would even attempt it.
Keep overreaching.
Hank thinks Stone Mountain will tump Georgia over?
My tax dollars should not be used to subsidize Black females and their bastard children.
It should be made bigger!
Gosh, the united daughters of confederacy forgot to include black confederate soldiers to that mountain...I’m sure there was a black confederate general...
/sarc, but not really
Outsource the destruction to the Islamists. It’s one of their specialties.
And when the leftists get around to offing dissidents, I’m sure the Islamists can give them some useful advice.
Where does it end? I hope this email from the Internet doesn’t have the answer to that question:
This is a great piece written by a former Navy fighter pilot who also retired as a United Airlines Captain -——
Are we all flying on the Germanwings flight 9525? ... Will we just assume the ‘Crash Position’ and wait??
The Captain was locked out of the cockpit. That phrase finally revealed the full horror of the crash. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his re-entry. After which Lubitz, for reasons unknown and perhaps unknowable, deliberately steered the jet into a harrowing 8-minute plunge ending in an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky mountainside. 150 men, women and children met an immediate, unthinkably violent death.
Lubitz, in his single-minded madness, couldn’t be stopped because anyone who could change the jet’s disastrous course was locked out. It’s hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed up to meet them.
Hard to imagine ... but not impossible. Because America is in similar descent, we feel the descent in the pits of our stomachs. We hear the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their limits. We don’t know where we’re going anymore, but do know it isn’t good. And above all, we feel helpless ….. because Barack Obama has locked us out.
He locked the American people out of his decision to seize the national healthcare system. Locked us out when we wanted to know why the IRS was attacking conservatives. He locked us out of having a say in his decision to tear up our immigration laws, and to give over a trillion dollars in benefits to those who broke those laws.
Obama locked out those who advised against premature troop withdrawals. Locked out the intelligence agencies who issued warnings about the growing threat of ISIS. He locked out anyone who could have interfered with his release of five Taliban terror chiefs in return for one U.S. military deserter.
And, of course, Barack Obama has now locked out Congress, the American people, and our allies as he strikes a secret deal with Iran to determine the timeline (not prevention) of their acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Was Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he decided to lock that cockpit door and listen to no voices other than those in his head? Did he somehow believe himself to be doing the right thing?
The voice recordings from the doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet began its rapid descent, the passengers were quiet. There was probably some nervous laughter, confusion, a bit of comforting chatter with seat mates, followed by a brief period in which anxiety had not yet metastasized into terror. It was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening. Only near the end when they began to scream.
Like those passengers, a growing number of Americans feel a helpless dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation’s decline is an act of choice rather than of chance. The choice of one man who is in full control of our 8-year plunge. A man who has locked everyone out.
If you aren’t screaming yet, you should be!
“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.
It must be a full moon or something, Hank Johnson is actually making some sense.
And festooned with Rebel flags.
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