Posted on 08/15/2017 5:56:24 PM PDT by Trump20162020
One of the gubernatorial candidates is calling for the removal of Confederate statues and monuments from around the state, including Stone Mountain's Civil War carving.
The Democratic party front-runner for governor, Stacy Abrams, said the carving of three Confederate leaders at Stone Mountain, which is designated by state law as an official Confederate memorial site, should be removed.
“It is 2017, and now is the time for us to have a conversation about removing the last vestiges of that type of hatred and that type of vitriol toward minority communities in Georgia,” Abrams told Channel 2’s Richard Elliot.
The Georgia NAACP wants the state to remove all Confederate monuments - something that only the state legislature or local governments can actually do - not the governor.
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I’m thinking Stone Mountain would be the last straw for many. A great and honorable hill in which to defend.
This has got to stop somewhere, might as well be Stone Mountain.
Let’s not forget it was the Democrat party the stood for racism, segregation and slavery. To this day they Dems still judge people by the color of their skin.
This is like the jr hi kids walking out... new found freedom for their over grown dead brains.
The guy can’t win governorship running on that!.. too many northerners moved into GA to let that happen... plus some southerners are still patriots and do not shift with every wind!
Some of the nincompoops haven’t had anything life shattering happen to them to make them stop and consider what is important and what is just childish acting!
First indication we were heading over the cliff on the statues was after 9/11.
Three firemen who happened to be white lifted up an American flag at the scene of the aftermath.
When making the statue there were suggesting to make the statue racially diverse. Forget that this was an actual event. Statues must be PC.
Mitch (2020 Presidential Candidate) Landieu, mayor of the crime-ridden city of New Orleans, started this latest American ISIS statue nonsense. While criminals took over his city and the streets flooded from non-working pumps, he spent $2 million in taxpayer dollars removing Confederate statues.
Maybe the democrat party can destroy the monument with artillery like the Taliban did those statues in Afghanistan.
Next they will go after Mount Rushmore.
Isis party
These men were fine men, men of their time, brilliant military strategists. Many American citizens today are descended from those who served honorably in their army and they deserve to be honored for giving their lives for their cause.
This was a Civil War, it was an internal struggle...no reason to condemn, deface, and demean the side that lost. Heck we all lost. We lost because the war actually took place.
Keep Whistling Dixie!
Here we have a leftist Democrat, using Communist tactics to erase a nation's history. Why? Because she was to impose her twisted view and her warped interpretation of history.
She would probably flunk a simple exam on American history.
How is that different from the Taliban destroying historic artifacts simply because they could at the time? The Democrats have nothing but mob rule these days.
Thanks.
These people are trying to destroy our country's history. Someone in authority (if there is such a critter anymore) needs to put their foot down and say no more.
I’m going to use that.
An asteroid will hit the US before Stone Mountain comes down. That just ain’t happening.
Ms Abrams, how many tourists visit Stone Mountain? Lady, you must dumber than Maxine Waters...When you liberals rename ML King and other historical blacks roadways and government buildings, then I’ll support doing away with Stone Mountain...Deal?
So far, the political ads have been silent on this. Kemp needs to bang this drum.
hmmm... I don’t think the Arab nations would comply...or the Netherlands...or the Spanish....
I’m pretty sure that she doesn’t stand a chance outside the metro ATL or Savannah
The wife and I are talking a trip there end of the end of the month...
I must be a racist / S
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