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John Casserly's avatar

MLK mentioned Stone Mountain in his I have a dream speech

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Ken Tingley's avatar

I didn't know that.

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John Casserly's avatar

He refers to Stone Mountain in Georgia

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mike parwana's avatar

There are a lot of monolithic stone relief carvings around the world, many of them incredibly ancient and awe inspiring. A lot of them are architectural, serving as religious structures or tombs, like a lot of Egyptian carvings, but also many in India, Southeast Asia or central and South America.

Some serve as records of the accomplishments of great monarchs. Nash-e Rostam is the best example that comes to my mind, with carvings as records of conquerors from several different empires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Rostam

To the best of my knowledge nobody put that much effort into making giant sculptures to celebrate losers, except for Stone Mountain.

Why not just re-name it Loser Mountain? Maybe they could just carve “LOSERS” in languages of all ages starting with hieroglyphs and cuneiform, Greek, Persian, Latin, Mandarin and Japanese, Russian, French, German, English… make it a real message to people of all time. It might become a tourist destination for travelers from around the world if they don’t get arrested by Customs first.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

One of the interesting things about my visit was there did seem to be a lot of international tourists clicking off photos by the thousands without - I assume - knowing the true meaning of the mountain.

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Dennis Maher's avatar

That sign at Stone Mountain is shocking. It says that the state of Georgia supports the Confederacy and by extension, slavery. It says that Trump is but a symptom of the terrible spiritual crisis that lives within this nation. The carving on the mountain face must be defaced.

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mike parwana's avatar

Maybe they could carve General Grant holding a lead rope tied to Traveller’s bridle pulling Lee aside to prevent him from further trampling the bodies of enslaved people.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

Dark, grim, and appropriate.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

I think the fact that they still have a law that protects the mountain for honoring the Confederacy says all that as well.

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Kevin Murphy's avatar

We need to make unreconstructed confederates scared again.

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Carla's avatar

Isn't it amazing that the jet from Qatar is already out of the news feed? A big deal for 3 or 4 days and then, poof, gone! He just keeps throwing plates in the air and, like children, we are momentarily distracted while he does his dirty deeds. That, I think, is the real danger here...distraction.

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Barbara Bubar's avatar

Exactly.....our brain band width can only handle so much at a time and always, always....there have been many "plates" thrown in the air, every single DAY. It does wear people out and that's exactly what they are counting on....exhaustion leads to ignoring all of it. NO!!!!

The history lessons Ken keeps adding made this column extra special and YES, help to wake us UP!!!

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Ken Tingley's avatar

News media can't keep up. At any given time, I'm worried about seven or eight grave threats. But then you have to have dinner.

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Tanya Goldstein's avatar

I think about people in other countries ruled by despots and dictators and I realize most of them are in that exact boat. Yes things are horrible and unfair and frightening and evil is running roughshod over everything…but as long as you’re breathing, you do still have to have dinner, or try to make a living, or watch your baby take its first steps.

From an old song by The Who:

I tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I’ll get on my knees and pray

We won’t get fooled again.

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Maggie's avatar

I have been thinking about cancelling a couple paid substack subscriptions - NOT this one tho.

Looking at the cost annually in the present hullaballoo going on, Its getting scary for all of us.

Also, its gotten hard to keep up with so many of the multiple posts. As I said - NOT THIS ONE! At this point - just thinking about it.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

My morning reading continues to take up more time and energy so I understand your dilemma. It does go to show you there is a lot of good work being done out there.

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Maggie's avatar

Yes, thats true. LFAA has an audio version which is nice. But beyond the posts themselves there are the Zoom interviews & then as I said, some post more than a couple times a day! I briefly subscribed to the Contrarian, but there was no way I could keep up with the various Zooms, posts etc. & pretty much all the info there I get from Civil Discourse & LFAA! So I dropped that one.

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