REMOVE IT ALL!!! READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE! One of the gubernatorial candidates of Georgia is calling for the removal of Confederate statues and monuments from around the state, including Stone Mountain’s Civil War carving. Stacy Abrams, the front runner for governor from the Democratic party said the carving of three Confederate leaders at Stone Mountain, which is designated by state law as an official Confederate memorial site, should be removed. “It is 2017, and now is the time for us to have a conversation about removing the last vestiges of that type of hatred and that type of vitriol toward minority communities in Georgia,” Abrams said. The Georgia NAACP needs the state to evacuate every single Confederate landmark – something that exclusive the state lawmaking body or neighborhood governments can really do – not the governor.One of those landmarks is concealed behind the old DeKalb County Courthouse. Bruce Caldwell said he never truly saw the landmark as of recently. In any case, now he needs it brought down.“I think that it’s about time that it should come down; 109 years is long enough,” Caldwell told Elliot. Bernard Adams said he doesn’t really care if the monuments stay. He says removing them won’t remove racism. “It’s history, that’s all it is. If, you know, we talk about racism, racism isn’t a symbol, it’s a person,” Adams said.
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