Adults take over the Stone Mountain conversation

[struggle4progress]

Jim Galloway
October 21, 2015

... On Wednesday, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said it might be right and proper to defer to people who actually heard King utter the phrase, “Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.”

“I’m not comfortable with other folks who didn’t do as much as John Lewis or Ambassador Young did, or others, making a judgment about this,” Reed said.

Andrew Young, the former mayor of Atlanta, has in fact weighed in. “It is not only a good idea. It is a necessary idea for this nation to pull together,” he told my AJC colleague Ernie Suggs. “The civil rights movement was never about one side winning over the other. It was always about coming together.”

Over the weekend, U.S. Rep. John Lewis endorsed the Stone Mountain plan, too. “It is my hope and my prayer that the people in this state and this community can come together and honor Dr. King the way that he should be honored” ...

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/10/21/adults-take-over-the-stone-mountain-conversation/

[xfundy]

1. I suspect the bigots' biggest gripe

is that the monument is on *top* of the mountain rather than groveling on the bottom.

[Hoyt]

2. Yep. Top of mountain is where the Klan had cross burnings as late as 60/70s.

That mountain is so steeped in racism that they ought to close it like any polluted area. But, I can support a MLK tribute next to the crud. It is a nice park as long as you don't feel like you are paying homage to slavery and racism by going there.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Truly shabby idea, putting a crappy image of racist criminals on that innocent stone mountain.

Someone should get a movement underway, instead of just talking about it, to sandblast that filth right off the rock and restore it to its original appearance before it was desecrated. Surely someone can manage that.

Tell the hate mongers to eat each others' shorts. They have outstayed their own welcome to themselves. The human race has never cared for them.

[struggle4progress]

4. This is still my favorite idea for an update