Posted on 08/05/2018 6:58:52 PM PDT by Trump20162020
DALTON – Democrat Stacey Abrams found herself on the campaign trail this week answering for an earlier call to remove the carving of three Confederate leaders from state-owned Stone Mountain near Atlanta.
A Dalton woman expressed concern during a town hall Wednesday about Abrams’ apparent focus on blasting off the “beautiful carving” from the face of Stone Mountain. The woman also inquired about Abrams’ views on the Confederate monuments that are a fixture in many downtowns across Georgia, including Dalton.
Abrams called for the removal of the carving last fall in a series of tweets shortly after a protestor was killed when a white nationalist drove his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Va., where groups clashed over the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.
At Stone Mountain, three Confederate leaders – President Jefferson Davis and Generals Lee and Stonewall Jackson – sit atop horses in the largest high relief sculpture in the world. Their likenesses are protected by state law and are so large that a sandblaster would likely be needed to erase them from the rocky monadnock, where the Ku Klux Klan was revived in the early 20th Century.
Abrams said at the time that the “visible image of Stone Mountain's edifice remains a blight on our state and should be removed.”
“I will never pretend not to believe something I believe,” Abrams said Wednesday to a packed and diverse crowd assembled at the Dalton Convention Center.
“I never once said ‘sandblast,’ but I did say that we should do something about the fact that we have this massive monument to domestic terrorism without context and without information, and I believe absolutely the state should not be paying for a monument to domestic terrorism.”
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She also said the Whitfield county police department are terrorists as well.
That’s next.
Evil white Europeans. Every one of ‘em.
The first worker that begins blasting on Stone Mountain might be the first casualty of a new civil war. I am serious. Georgians aren’t going to put up with that nonsense.
A democrat complaining about fellow democrats.
The irony.
For any other peasant, the IRS would have frozen their accounts and confiscated any income due from employer(s) .
As for the bloody civil war these rodents are working at starting, I almost look forward to it.
Slavery was certainly wrong, it shouldn’t have ever happened, but it did and it’s part of our history.
Indeed.
No where did you get that idea?
Obliterate the carvings?
What George Orwell wrote in 1984...69 years ago... Is pointed directly at lunatic democrats and other liberals..
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell 1984
He also wrote “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history”
He anticipated the democrat playbook.
This is the crap that goes unchallenged. R E Lee and Stonewall Jackson were and are part of the national panoply of heroes. To call Lee and Jackson perpetrators of domestic terrorism is to put them in the category as Timothy McVeigh (who haled from the Buffalo NY region) or Nidal Hassan. SCV types and others in Ga need to confront this idiot and ask what specific acts of domestic terrorism did R E Lee (highly decorate Mexican War hero), Thomas Jackson (decorated Mexican War hero and non-slave holder) and Jefferson Davis (Mexican War hero whose actions may actually have won the Battle of Buena Vista and who was Secretary of War for four years) these men committed. Not generalizations about being leaders of the Confederacy but what terrorist actions. This turd should be confronted everywhere she appears with those questions.
Their revisionism also reminds of this.
George Orwell1984
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right”
the domestic terrorism was France, Spain and the North slave-dumping on the South, and then the North using Southern slaves as a justification to rape, pillage and murder the South.
Funny how the left around the world always comes up with the same ideas.
Since they can't get financial restitution, they'll get their revenge through the destruction of historical memorials.
Let’s dynamite Stone Mountain, Stacy. Call for dynamiting it...
Went to Stone Mountain many years ago. The light show is awesome! The Mountain itself is terrific. Yes, we had a nice time there and experienced history in a good way.
Yes!
Exactly like when the Talaban blew up the giant Buddha sculptures in the side of that mountain; remember that?
And these fascists call everybody else Terrorists
#18. At least Hattie McDaniel had an honest job. She wasn’t a politician.
#29. George Orwell not only fully understood communism, but he saw it first hand at work in the Spanish Civil War. He knew what was coming if liberal/western governments didn’t wake up.
Looks like Stacey Abrams is asleep at the wheel as she drives down the road of ignorance in her useless life.
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