NAACP wants removal of Confederate generals from Stone Mountain

[SassyIrishLass]

Score one for the NAACP. They got the slavery suckups to melt down completely. Again.

Thinking people see the NAACP for what it is, a racist organization.

 

[Wake]

Remember this little gem?

...This year, the NAACP constructed a “box” to conceal the Father of His Country from view so that participants would not be offended by his presence.

NAACP disrespects George Washington at MLK rally in South Carolina

So some think it's ok to cover up a statue of George Washington without permission because they think it's going to offend people.

Riiight.

Bet people can also cover up statues of MLK Jr and others without permission because it might 'offend' them too, eh?

 

[Pogo]

Lets get down and dirty with the NAACP. sign up and Remove this Democrat off our building and roads

SNIP:

The late Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and led the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Remove name of the late Senator, Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd from the public space, road ways

By Nadra Enzi -- Bio and Archives July 15, 2015


Sign Petition


Petitioning West Virginia Governor

To remove the name of the late Senator and Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd from the public space, road ways and government buildings (including schools).

The late Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and led the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act

ALL of it here:
Remove name of the late Senator Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd from the public space road ways

"Canada Free Press" seems unaware that (a) Byrd was never Klan and Senator at the same time, having quit the Klan in the 1940s before ever running for office (unlike, say, Rice Means), and (b) that Canada still has SIXTEEN places named after Jeffery Amherst (the US has thirteen), a guy who actually killed people --- in mass genocide. Amherst is the guy with the dubious honor of waging biological warfare against Indians in the Great Lakes by sending them blankets infected with smallpox.

 

[Obiwan]

Pogo

Byrd s KKK History Shows Partisan Double Standard - US News

In its obituary, the Washington Postwent into surprising detail as to just what those activities consisted of and how they might have shaped his career and early record as a legislator. For example:


As a young man, Mr. Byrd was an ‘exalted cyclops’ of the Ku Klux Klan. Although he apologized numerous times for what he considered a youthful indiscretion, his early votes in Congress--notably a filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act--reflected racially separatist views.

 

[mamooth]

Stone Mountain has an ugly history. It was the major KKK rallying place for a long time, with the carving designed to be a deliberate permanent "fuck you" to anyone who opposed slavery.

On the one hand, the area is predominantly black now. If someone defaces your neighborhood with racist graffiti, you have the right to remove it, even if it is artistic racist graffiti. The carving isn't really historical, not being finished until the 1970s, and the whole place is kind of a cheesy tourist trap.

On the other hand, the slippery slope concerns are legitimate. The Lakota find Mt. Rushmore to be offensive, do we take that down too?

Best to keep it up. After all, Russia kept most of their Stalin sculptures, and that's about the same level of villainy. Taking it down is sort of a whitewash of the crimes of the past. I'd suggest making a crimes-of-the-south museum there, similar to how you see holocaust museums.