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Governor Candidate Calls For Removal Of Stone Mountain Carvings
WGCL CBS ^ | 08/15/17 | WGCL Digital Team

Posted on 08/15/2017 9:17:06 AM PDT by Enlightened1

STONE MOUNTAIN, GA (CBS46) -

Former Georgia House Minority Leader and candidate for governor of the state Stacey Abrams is calling for the Confederate carvings on Stone Mountain to be removed.

Abrams tweeted that the carvings is a "blight on our state and should be removed". She also tweeted that "Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state".

The Confederate Memorial Carving has images of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and were not complete until a dedication ceremony on May 9, 1970. Finishing touches were completed in 1972.

Abrams says the carvings have no place in the state and were "paid for by the founders of the second wave of the Ku Klux Klan." She also says the carvings have "no purpose other than celebration of racism, terror and division when carved"

Source: WGCL

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs46.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; carvings; destroyhistory; dixie; georgia; jeffersondavis; liberalfascism; naacp; purge; remove; robertelee; staceyabrams; stonemountain; stonewalljackson
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To: Enlightened1

Stacey Abrahams has NO chance of being Governor but she is a smart politician who knows how to ride a wave.


101 posted on 08/15/2017 11:25:15 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Enlightened1

Georgia is still 60% white. So, I imagine when she gets annihilated in the election, she will blame it on “racism”.


102 posted on 08/15/2017 11:32:58 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (HitlerÂ’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: onedoug

Ping


103 posted on 08/15/2017 11:33:07 AM PDT by stylecouncilor ("The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra)
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To: AC86UT89
Monticello and the Jefferson Memorial too. And all other buildings associated with the slave owning founders of the democrat party

Meanwhile, there are literally dozens of buildings, structures, and institutions named after a card-carrying member of the KKK, who just happened to be a the most powerful democrat in Congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd

104 posted on 08/15/2017 11:37:14 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Enlightened1

Since the Georgia legislature is very Republican, I would hope that they soon pass a law making it a very serious felony to deface or vandalize the Stone Mountain monument, and still a felony to attempt to do so.

I’m thinking 20 years minimum.


105 posted on 08/15/2017 11:38:30 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (HitlerÂ’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: Enlightened1

Replace the images with one of Stone Mountain native, Jan Cox. That’ll blow some minds.


106 posted on 08/15/2017 11:39:47 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder” - The LSN didn’t make Trump, so they can’t break h)
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To: Enlightened1

McKinney Blvd in Atlanta must be renamed for a real American


107 posted on 08/15/2017 11:43:24 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: BinaryBoy

Exactly!


108 posted on 08/15/2017 11:45:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: dragnet2
Destroying Stone Mountain carvings is getting out of hand. What is the point? trying to make the out that the war never happened or what? Just causing hate for the South and Johnie Reb.
109 posted on 08/15/2017 11:46:04 AM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet (If it is to be, it's up to me))
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To: Enlightened1
Abrams says the carvings have no place in the state and were "paid for by the founders of the second wave of the Ku Klux Klan."

Another leftist narrative built on a LIE.

110 posted on 08/15/2017 11:47:09 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: stylecouncilor

I want to see it before it’s gone.


111 posted on 08/15/2017 11:52:28 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

I got to see it as a kid while it was still under construction. We could climb down the gantry’s and catwalks and peer down over the edge to (try to) see the workmen below. Imagine them letting anyone do that today!

I too would love to go back and see it again.


112 posted on 08/15/2017 12:06:32 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: lilypad
Didn’t Trump promise us to be the law and order president? Here’s a perfect opportunity.

There is a protocol for a prez to send help. He must be invited by the gov. The gov is a dingbat dem bent on making Trump look like a chump.

113 posted on 08/15/2017 12:30:49 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Still Thinking
Make it a capital offense.

I would vote yes for any domestic terrorist wearing a hard, full face mask, and clearly in the "antifa" or "anti-kkk" uniform and a deadly weapon found, shoot them between the eyes.

AntiFa thugs love to wear clothes and masks and pretending they are killing on behalf of the opposition.

If violence is the only effective weapon against domestic terrorism with any label, punishment must be immediate, significant and evenly applied. Make it a shoot on sight offense.

114 posted on 08/15/2017 12:35:51 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: Enlightened1

Iconoclasts trying to scrub away their tarnished past. Replacements will be their next move.


115 posted on 08/15/2017 12:45:44 PM PDT by xander (TRUMPing nonsense with common sense)
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To: Slyfox; elcid1970

And if they were going to over turn tombstones at Gettysburg National Cemetery, they would have been destroying the stones of UNION Army soldiers who fought and defeated the Army of Northern Virginia. There are NO Confederate soldiers buried in the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Those Confederates that were buried in the Gettysburg area are, if still there in private cemeteries or unmarked individual and mass graves. After the Civil War many of the CSA soldiers were moved to the South, if either the individual was known or if in a mass grave of soldiers from a single regiment.


116 posted on 08/15/2017 1:34:22 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: shotgun

Remove every public monument named after KKK Robert Byrd.


117 posted on 08/15/2017 2:14:02 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: EXCH54FE

Hold on to one of those dollar bills you have in your pocket. You know that Washington was a slave holder.


118 posted on 08/15/2017 2:16:08 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: PrairieLady2

Slavery is going on openly in Muslim nations today even sexual slavery which is the most degrading form of slavery. In some places it is always the 7th century.

Don’t you find it amusing that many Black males choose to convert to Islam when the Muslims took many millions of slaves from Africa then castrated the males. But hey, it is better than Christianity which is the White man’s religion. I don’t think the massa done castrated his slaves.


119 posted on 08/15/2017 2:21:58 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Terry Mross

Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles should look for good history books to pass on to our young ones so that the truth with be passed along.


120 posted on 08/15/2017 2:24:23 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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