It's gotta be something in order for the NAACP to want to sandblast them off the mountain..
They say:
- The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP called Monday for the elimination of
all symbols of the Confederacy from Stone Mountain Park, whose marquee
attraction is the 90-foot-high, 190-foot-wide sculpture carved deep into
the mountain.
"Those guys need to go,” chapter leader Richard Rose told WSB-TV,
referring to Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of
America, and the two Confederate generals. “They can be sand-blasted
off, or somebody could carefully remove a slab of that and auction it
off to the highest bidder.
"My tax dollars should not be used to commemorate slavery,” he added.
I wonder if he knows that there are people in Georgia who are OK with their tax dollars supporting it?
The carving was conceived by Mrs. C. Helen Plane, a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). The Venable Brothers,
owners of the mountain, deeded the north face of the mountain to the
UDC in 1916. The UDC was given 12 years to complete a sizable Civil War
monument. Gutzon Borglum was commissioned to do the carving. Borglum abandoned the project in 1925 (and later went on to begin Mount Rushmore). American sculptor Augustus Lukeman continued until 1928, when further work stopped for thirty years. In 1958, at the urging of Governor Marvin Griffin, the Georgia legislature approved a measure to purchase Stone Mountain for $1,125,000. In 1963, Walker Hancock was selected to complete the carving, and work began in 1964. The carving was completed by Roy Faulkner,
who later operated a museum (now closed) on nearby Memorial Drive
commemorating the carving's history. The carving was considered complete on March 3, 1972.
