Atlanta NAACP marches on Stone Mountain to protest Confederate carving

[TexasTowelie]

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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[Loki Liesmith]

1. Not much you can do about Stone Mountain

Short of dynamiting it.

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

[redstateblues]

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

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

[populistdriven]

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

[GatoGordo]

4. What are they expecting to change?

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]

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

Hope I’m alive to cheer it.