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2020-07-04 -PC Follies

The world's largest Confederate monument faces renewed calls for removal

ATLANTA (Reuters) - 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.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-04 07:54|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Close it immediately and reactivate Project Plowshare (friendly use of nuclear detonation). Multi use, modular gentrified communities, underground Yuka Mountain annex. Quartz counter tops for the next 10,000 years. Wat are we waiting for ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-04 08:06|| 2020-07-04 08:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Instead, we can burn down Atlanta again.

Posted by Shating Turkeyneck1016 2020-07-04 08:42|| 2020-07-04 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 Close it immediately and reactivate Project Plowshare (friendly use of nuclear detonation). Multi use, modular gentrified communities, underground Yuka Mountain annex. Quartz counter tops for the next 10,000 years. Wat are we waiting for ?
Posted by: Besoeker 2020-07-04 08:06

...A couple years ago, I was flying into Atlanta and the landing path took us directly over Stone Mountain. Believe me when I tell you that no picture I've ever seen that was taken from ground level does justice to the sheer size of that thing. A nuke might just about be the only way to remove it.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-07-04 09:14|| 2020-07-04 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 They could hire some Taliban demolition 'experts' cheaply -- just offer them a Green Card and a house in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Posted by magpie 2020-07-04 10:32|| 2020-07-04 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 let's not, some of us live in the general area and you will run the cockroaches our way.

Posted by Chris 2020-07-04 11:28|| 2020-07-04 11:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Or we could just go on with our lives and offer those who claim to be offended their choice of therapy, hospitalization, or a bullet.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-07-04 13:59|| 2020-07-04 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 A one-way ticket to an African or Socialist paradise with renouncement of US citizenship (at no cost) would work for me.

Posted by Clem 2020-07-04 14:04|| 2020-07-04 14:04|| Front Page Top

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