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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How would America look today if the South had won?
The Confederacy was a creation of Southern Democrats. How ironic that people who I assume consider themselves conservatives,i.e Republicans venerate them so.
When is the NAACP going to change it’s name?
COLORED PEOPLE is racist!
The carvings started in the 1920’s and sat dormant for decades, not being completed as they are now until 1972.
I recall it being worked on during a visit my family took there in 1971.
The state bought the land in the late 50’s.
When does the Baraq Obama likeness go on Mt. Rushmore?
Will they wait until he leaves office?
I assume Aug 4th will become a federal holiday also.
Baraq Obama birthday and End of Ramadan.
Ok, they started before the state bought the land.
I think my point still stands.
I don’t venerate the Confederacy, they deserved to loose. It is a totally different thing to strip the cultural heritage and ancestry of an entire region of America to salve the “hurt” feelings of an aggressive, duicitous, grifting group of professional victims. They are talking about Taliban tactics: destroying monuments, forbidding relatives from placing Confederate flags on the gravesites of their Confederate, removing statues. It is cultural genocide that is typically followed by actual genocide.
When Europeans were conquering the New World they did the same thing to the natives and they ended up on the wrong side of history and DEAD.
Hank would say it can’t tip over, only islands do that. 8^)
I visited with my family in August of '64. You could see the workers from the tramway but they also had scaffolding for the more daring. You had to descend 200 feet or more down the face of the rock to get to the point were you could actually look down upon the "sculptors" (more like demolitions experts). It was definitely worth the trek.
I've always wanted to go back and see the completed sculpture - I guess I'd better accelerate my plans.
Go to hell liberal troll!
What Hank Johnson doers not realize is that those heavy statues are very important to the survival of his home state.
It has been discovered that the State of Georgia is balanced very delicately on a geological aquifer, and that Stone Mountain is the counterweight that keeps the state from capsizing.
The flag and monuments represent our ancestors who fought and died for the south. There is nothing wrong with that and it will never change.
As you say...it’s American HISTORY....stop tryin to stamp it out of existance.
Hey Mr taliban..tali me banahna...
Of course.../sarc. :-)
Yup and if The state doesnt want it they can give it back to the Venable family.
Wth is communist milk?
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