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Abrams calls for removal of Confederate faces off Stone Mountain
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called for the removal of the giant carving that depicts three Confederate war leaders on the face of state-owned Stone Mountain, saying it “remains a blight on our state and should be removed.”
“We must never celebrate those who defended slavery and tried to destroy the union,” Abrams said in a series of tweets posted early Tuesday, a response to the deadly violence sparked by white supremacist groups in Charlottesville, Va.
Removing the faces of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson would take a monster of a sandblaster and require a change in state law. The Georgia code has a clear mandate for the memorial, saying it should be “preserved and protected for all time as a tribute to the bravery and heroism of the citizens of this state who suffered and died in their cause.”
Sounds like it would be a pain in the azz to remove it. I would say chaulk it up to history. Its really no different than any tribe that defeats another than decides to destroy their monuments. ISIS destroying monuments, The Conquistador's destroying Aztec and Mayan monuments. They can put statues in museums but whole mountains are another story.
Sounds like it would be a pain in the azz to remove it. I would say chaulk it up to history. Its really no different than any tribe that defeats another than decides to destroy their monuments. ISIS destroying monuments, The Conquistador's destroying Aztec and Mayan monuments. They can put statues in museums but whole mountains are another story.
some of these nutbags are so demented, they'd think nothing of expending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to dynamite the whole mountain to kingdom come.
A few pounds of the right explosives and the faces of those scumbag Confederates would be erased from Stone Mountain forever. The carving at Stone Mountain was designed and funded by the KKK.
A few pounds of the right explosives and the faces of those scumbag Confederates would be erased from Stone Mountain forever. The carving at Stone Mountain was designed and funded by the KKK.
Sure that's going to happen. We shall just blow up the Washington Monument and Monticello because Washington and Jefferson were Slave owners too? Should we also destroy every Mosque/Koran in the US because Mohammad was responsible for the model of Slavery for 1400 years?
They should put up a plaque speaking to the history of the actual reliefs. They were finished in the 1970s and were carved as a response to the Civil Rights Movement and are a symbol of racism.
It is crazy to me that so many black people go there. I lived in metro Atlanta nearly 20 years and only went twice at the urging of a friend and didn't want to go either time.
Former KKK members admit they used to have KKK rallies at the park on GA PBS channel documentaries. People were probably lynched in that park. They should put up a memorial to the lynching victims of Georgia in the park instead of removing the reliefs IMO. It would cost too much to remove, but an educational site about the history of the KKK in Stone Mountain and the men reflected on the mountain along with a monument to GA lynching victims would be appropriate IMO.
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. We shall just blow up the Washington Monument and Monticello because Washington and Jefferson were Slave owners too? Should we also destroy every Mosque/Koran in the US because Mohammad was responsible for the model of Slavery for 1400 years?
