Posted on 07/03/2020 5:04:39 AM PDT by C19fan
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, a nine-story-high bas-relief sculpture carved into a sprawling rock face northeast of Atlanta, is perhaps the South's most audacious monument to its pro-slavery legacy still intact. Despite long-standing demands for the removal of what many consider a shrine to racism, the giant depiction of three Confederate heroes on horseback still towers ominously over the Georgia countryside, protected by state law. The monument - which reopens on Independence Day weekend after the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to close for weeks - has faced renewed calls for removal since the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died during an arrest by a white police officer who pinned his neck to the ground with a knee. The brutality of Floyd's death, captured on cellphone video, triggered a national outcry against racial injustice, and revived a long-simmering battle between those demanding the removal of racist symbols from the public sphere, and those who believe monuments honor the tradition and history of the South.
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The American Taliban wants to howitzer Stone Mountain.
Please no!
Just stop!
My ancestors fought in that war.......they never owned slaves!
One of my ancestor’s fought on the Union side!
These were young men, some only boys.....
....Stop this insanity!
I agree. It must stop.
It will not stop there.
Expect major vandalism at sites like this tomorrow.
The statues and monuments point to history both good and bad. They are out in the open for all to see and learn. Who is going to go to a museum to see these? As they used to say in the 1960s... Let it all hang out. It is history.
They will never stop. People who think they can appease the left are fools.
I read a short story a long time ago (70s?) where Stone Mountain's carving were obliterated by artillery fire, after a Communist take over.
Blessings dear friend!
The only way to stop it is to make the Democrats own their history.
This is a directive from anarchy HQ, AL Reuters. Sort of like John Has A Long Mustache for anarchists. Marching orders and the next target selected.
The government isn’t going to protect Stone Mountain. People are going to have to do it themselves. The Feds will throw you in jail for protecting it as well.
No one is forcing anyone to visit it.
I remember that story I think it was part of a collection of science fiction alternate history stories.
There was another entitled “Custer’s Last Jump”, wherein the 7th Air Cavalry parachute balloon infantry is decimated by a squadron of former Confederate Air Force fighters led by Crazy Horse, lol.
The story is told in the form of extracts from first-person accounts drawn from letters, diaries and newspaper articles of the period.
“... removal of what many consider a shrine to racism, the giant depiction of three Confederate heroes on horseback still towers ominously...”
Sure glad there’s no bias in the writing here...
The war was fought over more than just slavery. Indeed, upwards of 90% of Confederate soldiers had no connection to slave-holding. Much of what the South fought for, we are still fighting for, today. General Sherman burned everything in a swath 300 miles long and 50 miles wide through the state of Georgia. Is the state not allowed some memorial to the men who tried to prevent him from doing so? Does England ask Scotland to remove statues of Bonnie Prince Charlie or William Wallace because they fought against them? OK, so we made Germany remove statues of Hitler, pure evil. But, part of what caused WWII was the utterly harsh treatment of Germany after WWI. And, even the Romans, as the Republic expanded in its early history, knew better than to shame and disgrace the people they conquered. They left their traditions alone.
Bolshevism is about the systematic destruction of a nation’s culture with political terror. That is what is going on.
That is just stupid.
Leave the statues alone, the people they represent are woven in the fabric of American history. We cannot unravel the threads without all of the nation coming apart.
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