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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NAACP has lost site of its original mission.......they now major in minors. Can’t take them seriously. Just another shake down gang.
When will they demand that the KKK Richard Byrd U.S. courthouse in WV be renamed or down? 3-2-1...
These people think they can whine their way to remove any historical object that might cause offense.
The NAALCP person should be laughed out of the room.
Dick Rose “needs to go”
And take his racist organization with him
“They can be sand-blasted off, or somebody could carefully remove a slab of that and auction it off to the highest bidder. “
Sand blasted? The words of someone who has never done a days work. Id love to see someone try to destroy stone mountain or Rushmore,,,, with a sandblaster. Ignorant, never worked a day in his life, idiot, bigot.
You should be ashamed of this race-baiting statement. Color has nothing to do with it.
But no outrage over blacks killing blacks in cities.
Yes, bye, bye. Can’t move ‘em, demolish ‘em.
Even museums? Have you always been this bad of a dumbsass.
These people are acting more like the mohammedans every day. Remember when they blew up the ancient Buddhist statues?
+1
the NAACLP has gone ISIS, fanatically destroying history
the Taliban is alive and well in black Atlanta
How Taliban or Soviet of you. Moron.
And did you ever stop to think that Americans much closer to the events on both sides were ok with this? But you aren’t? That should tell you something.
The actual guys who fought at Gettysburg had a reunion there in 1913.
Pickets charge was even re enacted. At the fence, Union soldiers met the advancing confederate vets with handshakes.
US flags and rebel Flags were both treated with respect.
Ulysses Grant was loved in the South in later years for his kindness and open arms towards his former enemies.
He did not work for punishment, he told them to keep their guns and horses, and simply go home.
In WWII we had a Lee tank and named numerous bases and ships after Confederates.
The people in that war found much fellowship after a few decades. And both sides were honored.
And then here you come,,,, with an opinion.
Nice comparison, but we’re not locked out. Those that govern receive their authority from the consent of the governed. It’s our own fault we are where we are. The pendulum will swing the other way...it always does.
After five or six iterations of dead sandblasters and corresponding Chris Dorners, maybe this will stop. Maybe not even then. Probably not. Because the Left has won.
We LOST, people. We LOST. America is GONE.
We need to find a corner of the globe where we can pick up the pieces and live on.
Again with the sandblasters..... a sandblaster against a granite sculpture that size. The idea is comical. Why not a roofing hammer and a railroad spike? It would make as much sense as a sandblaster.
Neither does any God-condemned homosexual symbol, Islamic crap, or hoodooism, but by Alinsky, they will take your taxes and mine to pay for it all.
I've had it.
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