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A monument to MLK will crown Stone Mountain
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | October 11, 2015 | Jim Galloway

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; battleflag; civilwar; confederacy; confederate; csa; flag; georgia; jeffersondavis; jimgalloway; martinlutherkingjr; mlk; naacp; nathandeal; robertelee; staceyabrams; stonemountain; stonewalljackson; thecivilwar
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To: ifinnegan
Are you being purposefully obtuse or are you so childlike as to not understand that this is nothing more than another Marxist identity politics effort to discredit the history of the US.

Please tell me it's just because you're dull.

41 posted on 10/11/2015 1:52:52 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Timber Rattler

MLK was a communist. He should not be given honors.


42 posted on 10/11/2015 2:27:46 PM PDT by Ray76
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To: Ray76

MLK does not deserve any “honor”.


43 posted on 10/11/2015 2:44:43 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Timber Rattler

MLK was a Republican. That should get the project on fast track.


44 posted on 10/11/2015 2:46:37 PM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yeah I had that same thought. Idjits. They probably have never hiked to the top.


45 posted on 10/11/2015 3:00:59 PM PDT by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: Timber Rattler

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.


46 posted on 10/11/2015 3:16:02 PM PDT by euram
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To: Timber Rattler

I doubt this will be a major election issue.


47 posted on 10/11/2015 3:18:10 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Beats having a bunch of militant black nutcases trying to sandblast the carving off the mountain.


48 posted on 10/11/2015 3:57:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Impy

The media will probably hype it, however.


49 posted on 10/11/2015 3:58:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: euram

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).


50 posted on 10/11/2015 6:29:58 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ladyjane

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.


51 posted on 10/13/2015 10:14:33 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: FreeAtlanta
Will they have to pay his blood sucking family for his likeness?

Five'll getcha ten.

52 posted on 10/13/2015 10:17:19 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: euram
He was a rabble rouser of the first order, a plagiarist, a whoremonger, and a liar.

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.

53 posted on 10/13/2015 10:24:08 PM PDT by eddie willers
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