Governor Candidate Calls For Removal Of Stone Mountain Carvings

WGCL CBS ^ | 08/15/17 | WGCL Digital Team

[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.

• Web Poll: Do you think the Confederate Memorial Carvings should be removed? Vote here!

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"

[Labyrinthos]

I think we should dismantle the University of Virginia because it was founded by a slave-owner.

[ColdOne]

Thanks.

[dragnet2]

no one wants to be lumped in with neo-Nazis or subjected to violence, so there will be a strong tendency for respectable people to stay away from vigils and demonstrations that favor the preservation of these monuments.

According to you it's the respectable people who will turn out to be the biggest cowards, who will simply stand and watch the destruction of their country because they fear being called a name?

[abclily]

Why are democrats acting like Islamists?

[Responsibility2nd]

Taliban?

No. Worse.

ISIS.

 

[Drew68]

And just who is going to do the removing?

Dynamite isn't too hard to come by.

The real question is, who's going to stop them?

Because as far as I can tell, the only people showing up to protect old confederate monuments are David Duke's and Richard Spencer's boys and conservatives can't distance themselves fast enough from them.

[Responsibility2nd]

Hold on now.

As we now know, that whole riot at Charlottesville was a staged stunt.

Bought and paid for by George Soros, using that Obama/CNN journalist stooge, Kessler as his operative.

True conservatives MUST be wise and discerning. We must not fall for false flags and Alinsky tricks.

There will soon come a time for us to rise up. But the mickey mouse event on Saturday was certainly NOT that time.

[riverdawg]

According to Rush Limbaugh, Al Sharpton was on Charlie Rose’s PBS program last night advocating the destruction of the Jefferson Memorial.

[\/\/ayne]

It's the American Cultural Revolution.

"The renegade, traitor and scab Liu Shaoqi must forever be expelled from the Party!"

[dragnet2]

Getting out of hand? The last president lit up the White House like it was some gay Hollywood dive bar. The freaking White House!

[Ohioan]

Tragically, the incentive that you mention has been allowed to work for over half a century--since the Goldwater defeat. My prayer is that people are finally waking up.

Here as a bit of neutral--as to present contrived issues--humor from the foremost Georgia man of letters in the 1830s, the uncle of General Lees's Lieutenant General Longstreet. The humor is a bit of the essence of dry American humor, offered to try to put a momentary smile on some faces, in a present moment that is very far from humorous:

Debating Society

Cheers!

[tbw2]

The poll is 94% no.

Liberals are like ISIS, demanding the removal of all history contrary to their narrative for the sake of ideological conformity.

[dragnet2]

Attack their language, attack their history, attack their heroes, attack their religion, attack their monuments, attack their skin color and attack their founders.

Just a wild guess, but I’d say America is fully under attack.

[Axenolith]

It doesn’t appear that those carvings offer much in the way of cover and concealment to removers...

[elcid1970]

I looked up a satellite view of Stone Mountain park. It’s mostly surrounded by wooded areas in which sniper teams could range like fish in water.

They wouldn’t have to kill anyone. When the sandblasters are sent up, a few ricochets off the granite will send them packing. Antifas OTOH will simply be picked off.

Yeah, the entire place will be under military lockdown with drones swarming overhead. But when that point is reached, we are already in Civil War II.

[hanamizu]

“Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state”

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This is a common line. Put them in museums. And guess who will interpret and “explain” the exhibits? No honor or respect will be allowed to be shown.

[Skeptical constituent]

History, no matter how abhorrent it may be to some, cannot be changed. It is infantile to think that tearing down monuments can erase history. We must learn from history. Those that don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

[InterceptPoint]

Pretty obvious where this is all heading.

[353FMG]

And forever abolish the movie, “Gone With the Wind”.

[353FMG]

Taliban matters! /s