More News about Stone Mt.

[packman]

Georgia’s Stone Mountain park has denied the Ku Klux Klan’s request to burn a cross at the top of the mountain, where the second KKK was founded in 1915.

Joey Hobbs, of the Sacred Knights’ Ku Klux Klan, submitted a permit application request for 20 people to attend a cross-burning on top of the mountain, which is notorious for being tied to the KKK.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/kkk-permit-denied-cross-burning-stone-mountain-georgia

[procon]

1. Wait... run that by me again... what was that?

...the mountain, where the second KKK was founded in 1915."

So there's a big ass Stone Mountain in Georgia where they have this quasi sacred bas-relief carving as an homage to Confederate Generals, and it was specifically chosen because it was the site of the rebirth of the KKK?

"On Thanksgiving evening in 1915, Simmons and sixteen other members of the new order, several of whom also belonged to the Knights of Mary Phagan, ascended Stone Mountain, ignited a flaming cross, and proclaimed the rebirth of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan."

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-twentieth-century

WTF, blow that racist, white nationalist nazi crap up! Bomb it into smithereens!

[Greybnk48]

3. I'm pretty sure they have laser light shows there nightly.

It's disgusting.

[2naSalit]

2. As far as I'm concerned...

the same thing that happened to the great Buddhas in Afghanistan should happen to that malady... though I would rather that those Buddhas were not destroyed, Stone Mountain certainly should be.

[Codeine]

4. I'm struck by how genuinely amateurish

that sculpture appears. The faces are cartoonish, the composition is somehow off, and the foremost horse looks goofy.

Total shitshow.