The Atlanta branch of the NAACP is calling for the immediate removal of all Confederate symbols from Stone Mountain Park, state-owned property that also houses a Civil War museum, hiking trails and other attractions.
Richard Rose, president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP, said the carving and surrounding depictions of the Civil War offer a false narrative and have no place on public property.
"That carving is a great piece of art, but it was commissioned out of hate and white supremacy," Rose said. "The state should not be supporting or condoning white supremacy with my tax dollars."
The request is part of the chapter's call to take down all signs of the Confederacy at Georgia-owned properties.
"The part of continuing the notion of white supremacy must change," he said. "At some point, we must be one country."
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We will never be one country as long as this continues. I wonder when Gettysburg and Arlington (Lee's house) will be attacked next?
What about Mt Rushmore? Washington and Jefferson were slave owners. Gutzon Borglum created the monument. He was hired while he was working on Stone Mountain. He was a member of the KKK and an extreme racist.
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America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome...
I posted a thread about two weeks ago with an article stating Stone Mountain is a memorial and as such, could keep the flag.
I'm telling you. All this pushing is going to backfire.
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Slavery is bad. But to judge people of long ago by today's standards is disingenuous.
Exactly.
People need to realize that the Civil Rights movement has been a long process with VERY slow progress most of the time, interspersed with a few major events (the Civil War, the 19th Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1964) that sped up progress by decades.
Abraham Lincoln would probably be considered a racist by today's standards--but there's no denying that he sped up the end of slavery by several decades, at least.
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I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.
Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.
So they going to blast the side of that huge granite rock?
I mean how stupid can people be?
Everyone may not agree as to why, but there were good men, good kids, who fought and died for their rights. You may not agree with them. But that's not something to erase.
Have any of you been to Stone Mountain? It's a beautiful place. The museum is very educational. The activities are wonderful and the whole place is loved by everyone.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
That is President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
And one of the supporters of blasting it off is that grand and upstanding citizen, Mr. Big Boi of Outkast.
Yeah. Ok.
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