Posted on 10/11/2015 10:48:18 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
On the summit of Stone Mountain, yards away from where Ku Klux Klansmen once burned giant crosses, just above and beyond the behemoth carving of three Confederate heroes, state authorities have agreed to erect a monument to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Specifically, an elevated tower — featuring a replica of the Liberty Bell — would celebrate the single line in the civil rights martyr’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech that makes reference to the 825-foot-tall hunk of granite: “Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.”
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Gov. Nathan Deal has green-lighted the projects, and a formal rollout is likely to come sometime before the holiday season. (A Deal initiative to place an MLK statue on the grounds of the state Capitol remains in the works, delayed by the death of the sculptor originally chosen for the job.)
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Please tell me it's just because you're dull.
MLK was a communist. He should not be given honors.
MLK does not deserve any “honor”.
MLK was a Republican. That should get the project on fast track.
Yeah I had that same thought. Idjits. They probably have never hiked to the top.
Stone Mountain is so huge that a “monument” on top of it will hardly be visible from the ground. Still, MLK is not worthy of a monument of any kind, anywhere, of any size. I’m sick of everyone always mentioning his name in reverence. He was a rabble rouser of the first order, a plagiarist, a whoremonger, and a liar.
I doubt this will be a major election issue.
Beats having a bunch of militant black nutcases trying to sandblast the carving off the mountain.
The media will probably hype it, however.
In January we celebrate “Martin Luther Day” (even though I’m not Lutheran); I invite you to do the same. Buy some Becks, Bratwurst, make some rabbit stew - and commemorate the contributions of Germany to our American culture (starting with our language).
Glenn Beck is always gushing over MLK, it makes me sick because I have long known about his darker side. Many people have the gift of eloquence but it doesn’t make them good human beings.
Five'll getcha ten.
I don't know what was in his heart when he started, but after he and his movement had won all the voting rights that could be had, he did not want to leave the spotlight. By the end he was all that you say.
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