Georgia confederate group blasts MLK honor at Stone Mountain

[alp227]

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Georgia chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans said Monday a proposal to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on top of Stone Mountain could warrant legal action as “a possible violation of the law which established the Stone Mountain Memorial Association and charged it with promoting the mountain as a Confederate memorial.”

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported exclusively Sunday that the association and others plan to build a bell tower — located on the mountaintop, just above the giant carvings of three Confederate heroes — that celebrates the line in King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech: “Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.”

Park officials said they had appropriate approval for the proposal, including from Gov. Nathan Deal. It comes in response to debate over government-sponsored Confederate displays in the wake of the June killings of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C.

Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-confederate-group-blasts-mlk-honor-at-ston/nnzyC/

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The same day as a pro-Confederate group of human garbage were charged under state terrorist threats laws for...of all things...crashing an African-American child's birthday party. Geez, when can these em-effers shrivel up and die already?

[marym625]

1. they'll all eventually shoot each other at a gun rally

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. Durn you, "Michael King!"

From the article:

“The erection of monuments to anyone other than Confederate heroes in Stone Mountain Park is in contradistinction to the purpose for which the park exists and would make it a memorial to something different,” the group said in a statement, which misstated King’s name.

“Monuments to either Michael King or soldiers of any color who fought against the Confederacy would be a violation of the purpose for which the park was created and exists,” the group said.

These jackasses are what you get when you don't stir the gene pool regularly.

[Ken Burch]

3. Here's a childhood picture of their official spokesman:

[Hoyt]

6. Not far off. Here's a photo of the man who held Klan rallies there and whose family owned the

mountain and sold it to state. BTW, his middle name was Reagan. He was also the local Mayor.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. How about this as a compromise... No MLK on Stone Mountain

but instead Stone Mountain will be used for testing precision guided bombs.

[YOHABLO]

5. Okay, let's blow Robert E.Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jeff Davis off the face of this monolith