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TexasTowelie

(116,809 posts) Fri Jul 6, 2018, 10:10 PM Jul 2018

Atlanta NAACP marches on Stone Mountain to protest Confederate carving

The Atlanta branch of the NAACP marched on Stone Mountain on Wednesday, calling for the removal of the granite carving of three Confederate leaders.

“Our objective was to make a statement,” the chapter’s president Richard Rose said after the protest. “Ours is an attempt to educate people to unlearn the white supremacy, bigotry and divisiveness they have been taught for decades.”

Stone Mountain is one of several monuments around that nation that have been the subject of protests as the nation wrestles with the appropriateness of memorials to the Civil War and controversial racially divisive leaders.

The issue came to a head last summer in Charlottesville, Va., when a woman was killed after a white nationalist allegedly drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors during a demonstration to protect a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from being dismantled.

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Atlanta NAACP marches on Stone Mountain to protest Confederate carving (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2018 OP

Not much you can do about Stone Mountain Loki Liesmith Jul 2018 #1

First time I saw that my liberal uncle reassured me that redstateblues Jul 2018 #2

yes but we need QUALITY GRANITE AGGREGATE NOW! nt populistdriven Jul 2018 #3

What are they expecting to change? GatoGordo Jul 2018 #4

Someday that carving, aided by the Klan, will be sandblasted off that mountain. Hoyt Jul 2018 #5

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)

1. Not much you can do about Stone Mountain

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Jul 6, 2018, 10:25 PM

Jul 2018

Short of dynamiting it.

As it stands it’s a waste of good rock climbing real estate.

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)

2. First time I saw that my liberal uncle reassured me that

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Jul 6, 2018, 10:27 PM

Jul 2018

In 10,000 years or so the carvings would slide off of their own volition

populistdriven

(5,684 posts)

3. yes but we need QUALITY GRANITE AGGREGATE NOW! nt

Reply to redstateblues (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 6, 2018, 10:44 PM

Jul 2018

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)

4. What are they expecting to change?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Jul 6, 2018, 11:29 PM

Jul 2018

I think that this could possibly be turned against us. Does anyone else recall the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan? Is the thinking that these clearly racist images need to be destroyed because they offend?

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

5. Someday that carving, aided by the Klan, will be sandblasted off that mountain.