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Stone Mountain monument at center of racial tension over Confederate tributes
The Guardian ^ | Saturday 28 November 2015 | Matthew Teague

Posted on 11/28/2015 1:04:27 PM PST by bob_denard

Names and flags have been removed from statehouses and street signs across the US, but at the stone-etched Georgia monument, no one is able to claim victory

Exactly a century ago this holiday weekend, more than a dozen men climbed to the top of a mountain outside Atlanta, pulled on white hoods and lit a 16ft, kerosene-soaked wooden cross. It marked the rebirth of Ku Klux Klan, and Stone Mountain became the Klan’s spiritual home.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: anarchists; atlanta; dixie; georgia; jeffersondavis; naacp; robertelee; staceyabrams; stonemountain; stonewalljackson
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1 posted on 11/28/2015 1:04:27 PM PST by bob_denard
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To: bob_denard

Here we go again. The communists must remove all traces of American history, GOOD OR BAD, before their communism can gain a good grip on the “unwashed masses.”


2 posted on 11/28/2015 1:08:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: bob_denard

Can Mount Rushmore be far behind?.........................


3 posted on 11/28/2015 1:10:30 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: bob_denard

Commie agitators seem everywhere!


4 posted on 11/28/2015 1:11:01 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: Red Badger

Wow....great question. Then the hitler/obama yutes can have obamas face there. Chilling could happen.


5 posted on 11/28/2015 1:12:17 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Red Badger

Rushmore,yeah four go and they will want to replace them with the O.


6 posted on 11/28/2015 1:13:33 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: bob_denard

Right before 9/11, the Taliban were in the news because of their destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas.

Extremists here and abroad are very similar. They will not tolerate opposing views.

7 posted on 11/28/2015 1:14:25 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I support anything which diminishes the Muslim population.)
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To: Red Badger

The Clinton administration plowed up and surfaced over the location where Kennewick Man was discovered to placate some Indians. Stone Mountain could easily get a face lift to placate other “marginalized” whiners. I see little hope for this decadent nation.


8 posted on 11/28/2015 1:14:32 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: sparklite2

Actually, it may have been the Bush administration that did the deed.


9 posted on 11/28/2015 1:20:13 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: bob_denard

It seems this is a State monument, out of reach of the Feds.


10 posted on 11/28/2015 1:22:50 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: bob_denard

It needs to be removed immediately! I might end up glancing at it and suddenly turn into a racist!


11 posted on 11/28/2015 1:23:45 PM PST by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

So the Fed tells Georgia either SM goes or some federal funding, such as highway or education, goes. Atlanta will crumble.


12 posted on 11/28/2015 1:25:00 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: bob_denard

Messing with Stone Mountain risks re igniting the Civil War.
And Georgia just authorized messing with it, starting with putting an MLK tribute on top in a spirit of conquest.


13 posted on 11/28/2015 1:25:25 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Well, Washington and Jefferson, both being slaveholders will have to go. Lincoln and TR were Republicans, so they may have to go as well. Rather than blowing up the whole thing, it might be easier to modify the features of the existing carvings to people more acceptable to “modern” tastes. Think of it as a shovel (or pickaxe)-ready project.


14 posted on 11/28/2015 1:27:53 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: bob_denard

Where’s General Sherman when you need him

It’s getting close to the time to burn Atlanta again


15 posted on 11/28/2015 1:30:21 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPyes but now I must concentratc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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And Georgia just authorized messing with it, starting with putting an MLK tribute on top in a spirit of conquest.

The original monument didn't send a clear political message?

Defiance? Resilience? To some people, oppression and conquest?

It might be nice to think that it was apolitical and unifying and reconciling, but was it really any of that?

16 posted on 11/28/2015 1:30:45 PM PST by x
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To: Red Badger
Can Mount Rushmore be far behind?.........................

No. Not with 2 slave holders a recently described as racist freer of the slaves and a man who stole Panama from the poor Hispanic Columbians

17 posted on 11/28/2015 1:34:38 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: x

It is a symbol of sons and daughters of the confederacy. Leave it be and put up your Marxist leader monument in Cuba or China


18 posted on 11/28/2015 1:36:27 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

No difference between this and Islam / Isis destroying other statues, churches, monuments, .... It’s all based on the same principle of erasing history of struggles against oppression or struggles for freedom or freedom of religion. BLM and the modern US black leaders are all about misdirection against freedom and liberty. Violent and unforgiving resistance is the only solution or response.


19 posted on 11/28/2015 1:40:09 PM PST by wgmalabama
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To: ClearCase_guy

Oh sure!
They can erase the three horsemen on Stone Mountain.
Most of history can be erased.

Then soon enough we will see ‘The Four Horsemen’,
Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death!


20 posted on 11/28/2015 1:41:47 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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