They Will Come for Stone Mountain

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
-Martin Luther King, 1963 

The monument to the Confederacy will come down

Atlanta Journal Constitution 

Georgia's Racist Past Demolished at Stone Mountain Park

July 14, 2016


Byline: Racially ambiguous graduate of an Ivy League college/university


It will be completed soon. Freedom will ring from sea-to-shining-sea finally, just as Martin Luther King prophesied in his angelic "I Have a Dream" speech from 1963. Stone Mountain Park's divisive Confederate Memorial carving of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson will be demolished today.


One of the last vestiges of public, prominent racism left in America (after the White House in Washington D.C. was renamed "The People's House"), Stone Mountain Park - located in predominately Black Stone Mountain, Georgia - will see a new mural erected in place of the three most prominent leaders of the white supremacist Confederate States of America. 


The new mural, selected by the presidents of America's leading Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will depict Martin Luther King giving his fabled address in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. 


"This is a powerful day in our nation's history, with true racial reconciliation coming to a state whose history is replete with the stain of white bigotry," said President Barack Obama. 


"It is only by removing every white stain of bigotry that we can move forward with creating a more powerful union," he said. 


The Army Corps of Engineers will supervise the demolition. Pieces of the memorial will be distributed across the nation as part of the Department of Education's Teaching Tolerance program. 


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Not far from downtown Atlanta sits Stone Mountain, one of the more awe-inspiring geological sites in all of the world. I was young when I was first went to Stone Mountain Park, and each time I've climbed to the top of the mountain since, that first trip still lingers in my mind. 


When you see the huge carving of Lee, Jackson, and Davis on horseback (the largest bas-relief in the entire world) it leaves a lasting impression upon you. But for how much longer? 


How can America - governed by the concept and principles of Black-Run America (BRA) - allow a monument to those traitors remain on Stone Mountain? The Los Angeles Times made a huge deal out of this mountain of hate in 1995, just before the Coca-Cola Olympic Games were held in Atlanta:

When Tyrone Brooks was a child growing up in rural Georgia, he learned from his elders that the freakish outcropping of granite east of Atlanta known as Stone Mountain was a frightful--even evil--place. 

The Ku Klux Klan marked its rebirth early this century by torching a cross upon its peak. And in olden times, his grandmother told him, black people had been lynched and thrown from the mountaintop. "I did not grow up with a good feeling about Stone Mountain," Brooks said. "I still don't have a good feeling about it." 

A year from today, when Atlanta hosts the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, 2 million visitors will be expected to feel good about Stone Mountain and the numerous other reminders that the city known as the cradle of the civil rights movement also has a vivid historical flipside. 

From the grandiose Confederate memorial carved into the mountain to the ever-present evocations of "Gone With the Wind" to the contentious Rebel emblem that dominates the state flag, Atlanta's Civil War and antebellum history will be much in evidence during the Games. Many visitors will find it charming. 

But with various groups threatening protests and lawsuits over the flag, and with lingering resentments swirling around the other symbols, the stage is set for a momentous--or at the least loud--clash over how the South's past should be remembered and portrayed. 

Three Olympic events will be held at Stone Mountain, a Southern Mt. Rushmore that since 1958 has been a state-owned park commemorating the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. While park spokeswoman K Thweatt said she knows of no lynchings ever taking place at the site, the land was owned by a family with a long history of klan involvement and was a frequent site of cross burnings. 

A gigantic carving of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson graces one side of the mountain, and on weekends and every night from May through Labor Day the park puts on a laser light show featuring Lee and the Confederate flag and accompanied by Elvis Presley's rendition of "Dixie."

Brooks, a black 49-year-old state legislator, said he can't bring himself to visit the park except for official state functions. But despite criticism of the show, Thweatt said it will not be changed before the Olympics.

When Atlanta launched its underdog bid to become the first Southern and first predominantly black city to host the Olympics, much of its appeal rested on its image as spiritual capital of a modern, harmonious South. But the road to 1996 has been marked by collisions between conservative Southern traditions and the new.

To his way of thinking, Atlanta was awarded the Games because of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Former Mayor Andrew Young, who was an aide to King, is one of the local people most responsible for bringing the Games to Atlanta and is co-chairman of the organizing committee. He and other organizers have made it no secret that they employed King's image to sell Atlanta to the International Olympic Committee as the cradle of the civil rights movement. 

For that reason, Brooks argued, the city should strive to portray itself as a racially enlightened New South metropolis. "It puts Atlanta in a whole other category in terms of world image, but my feeling is that the Olympics would not be here if it was not for the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the actions of Andrew Young."

Since this article was published in 1995, Georgia did change its state flag. Gone is the Confederate Flag.

More importantly, we are nearing the point where the gradual deracination - which turned into a full-fledged sprint (courtesy of Black athletes like Hershel Walker and Bo Jackson) - of Southern Heritage and Roots has been completed. Why should this monument remain on Stone Mountain anymore? Who cares about the past?

Dead White Males have no place for veneration in Black-Run America (BRA)

Jackson, Lee, and Davis were nothing more than evil white men, right? This memorial must come down.

After all, Stone Mountain is a majority Black city (though NBC's 30 Rock imagined the city as some hayseed white dump) that already exonerated itself of racism by electing a Black mayor back in 1997. Courtesy of the New York Times:

The 20th-century Ku Klux Klan was born here in 1915, and for half a century afterward this quaint town on the outskirts of Atlanta played host to an annual rally of cross-burning Klansmen. 

Until his death in 1993, the town was home to James R. Venable, the hate-spewing imperial wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Even today, the granite monolith that gives the city its name is revered as a Confederate Rushmore because of its giant relief sculpture of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson.
Now Stone Mountain has elected a black mayor. What is more, it has elected a black mayor who happens to live in the same house where Mr. Venable, himself the mayor in the 1940’s, lived for most of his life. 

”Tell me,” said Chuck E. Burris, the Mayor-elect, ”that God doesn’t have a sense of humor.” 

In a low-turnout election on Nov. 4, Mr. Burris defeated the incumbent, Pat Wheeler, by 278 votes to 260; a third candidate won 30. 

Neither the small turnout — 16 percent of the town’s registered voters — nor the narrow margin of victory has stopped Mr. Burris and his wife, Marcia Baird Burris, from proclaiming the election a landmark in the racial evolution of the New South.
”There’s a new Klan in Stone Mountain,” Mr. Burris said in an interview, ”only it’s spelled with a C: c-l-a-n, citizens living as neighbors. And I guess I’m the black dragon.” 

Mr. Burris’s election to the part-time, $300-a-month position is a tribute to his years of public involvement, both in Stone Mountain, where he has served two terms on the City Council, and in nearby Atlanta, where he worked as a budget analyst for that city’s first black Mayor, Maynard H. Jackson. It is also a testament to the gradual easing of racial politics in some Southern communities. 

But perhaps above all, it reflects a remarkable demographic shift in the suburbs of cities like Atlanta, where certain middle- and upper-class neighborhoods, once exclusively white, have seemed to integrate almost overnight. 

In 1980, white voters were 94 percent of the electorate in the city of Stone Mountain. By 1990, the figure had slipped to 85 percent. Only seven years later, half the registered voters in this town of 35,000 people are black. 

As a scholarship student at Morehouse College in 1967, he sat in on several Saturday seminars led by Dr. King, and once told Dr. King that he did not think he could respond to violence with nonviolence. Dr. King replied, ”You will always be a slave if you let other people control your behavior.” 

To Mr. Burris’s thinking, as to many here, Stone Mountain’s image has been distorted by the activities of a few locals, an annual pilgrimage by outsiders and some distant history (the Klan had been largely inactive for decades before its rebirth at a 1915 rally on the mountain). 

Of course, the Confederate carving on the mountain, which rises from a state park abutting the city, remains. The huge sculpture, depicting Lee, Davis and Jackson on horseback, was commissioned in 1916 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy as a memorial to their Civil War dead, but, with work proceeding in fits and starts for decades, it was 1970 before it was dedicated. 

Mr. Burris says the sculpture does not bother him as much as the need to pour new sidewalks, reduce property tax appraisals on the elderly and cleanse the city of crack houses. 

”Maybe things are getting a little better,” he said. ”If nothing else, hopefully my election will make people know that the city of Stone Mountain is a good town, that everybody is welcome here, that there are no bars to anyone moving here and finding friends and neighbors.”

Stone Mountain today is still home to crack houses and crime, courtesy of its 89 percent Black population. But on the north face of the nearby quartz monzonite dome monadnock commonly known as Stone Mountain rests a mural honoring three white men who aren't warranted that honor in BRA.

It will come down. It will be replaced with a more acceptable bas-relief. Probably MLK.

And then, the only thing left to demolish will be Mount Rushmore. After all, Thomas Jefferson was an individual who didn't believe in racial equality; Lincoln wanted to send all Black people back to Africa; Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive racialist; and George Washington - the father of a nation that no longer exists - was a slave-holding white male.

Water Bills in Atlanta -- Not for Black People to Pay (or the Black-run City Government)

Why are Atlanta water rates the highest in the nation? Because of Black people 

Last March, CNN published a story that showcased the high prices for water that Atlanta residents were forced to pay for this public utility.

'Skyrocketing water bills mystify, anger residents' was the headline of this story out of the city known as the Black Mecca of America.

Shouldn't that have been enough to give away the answer? In a city that has been completely run - politically - by Black people since Maynard Jackson took power in 1974, wouldn't you wager that one group of people aren't paying their water bills, deferring to those who actually pay their bills higher rates?

Though Atlanta is the city in America with the fastest growing white population, Black residents still comprise 54 percent of the city's inhabitants.


The City too busy to Hate has the highest water bills in America, and the reason is because a significant portion of the Black population (and businesses owned by Black people) simply don't pay their water bills.

Back in 2008, WSBTV did a report showing that the city of Atlanta owed $8 million and that $28 million of uncollected water bills were past due:

The City of Atlanta wants raise water rates by 15 percent. Customers who'll be paying more may be interested to know that thousands of water customers don't bother to pay at all, and many of them are government agencies, starting with the City of Atlanta itself.


Channel 2's Richard Belcher sorted through the list of delinquent accounts.


The City of Atlanta is looking for ways to close a 9-figure budget shortfall.


Of course, the budget might be in even worse shape if city agencies actually had to pay their water bills.


The list is 158 pages long -- more than 8,000 customers -- a total of $28 million in unpaid bills.


Most are companies and individuals, but it is surprising how many of the big bills are for government agencies.


PDF: City of Atlanta Unpaid Water Bill List


There are at least 36 accounts listed as City of Atlanta with total unpaid bills of nearly $7.9 million.


But that doesn't include the separate account at the city court. The unpaid water bill there is nearly $173,000.


Other unpaid bills include Chastain Amphitheater at $98,000, Piedmont Park at nearly $88,000, or Fire Station #4 on Edgewood with $67,000 worth of water yet to be paid.


In fact, the list includes 29 separate agencies with the word fire in somewhere their names.


Total unpaid water bills for these firefighters more than $328,000.


The Fulton County Jail is deadbeat number two overall with a total unpaid water bill of more than $1.3 million.


There are at least four other Fulton County bills in the top 100. The unpaid total of those is $268,000.


If you think that’s bad, Grady Hospital has 31 separate water accounts showing unpaid bills of more than $4.5 million.


If this distresses you as you're paying your soon-to-be-higher Atlanta water bill, keep this in mind-- you're in the majority.


There really are more people who pay than don't pay. It's just that some who don't have been collecting your tax dollars and not paying their bills.

No problem.The city of Atlanta (full of accounting wizards whom Ernst & Young stated in a 2004 audit of the department had financial employees clearly unqualified for the job: any guess as to the race of the economic titans?) will just write these uncollected water bills off the balance sheet and find new ways to off-set these uncollected bills.

Funny: Baltimore (a city with a greater percentage of Black people than Atlanta) is having a similar crisis right now. The Baltimore Business Journal reports:

City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young on Monday called for a two-year moratorium on placing liens on properties because of unpaid water or sewer bills.

Young plans to introduce a formal resolution at Monday’s council meeting, he said, followed by an ordinance to enforce the moratorium by March 26.

The move comes in response to a recent city audit that revealed a dysfunctional system of charging businesses and residents for water and sewer usage. Baltimore, according to the audit, has over-charged 38,000 water and sewer customers by more than $4 million. The city so far has failed to correct the inaccurate bills, leaving many customers to either pay more than they could afford or choose not to pay their bills at all, Young said.

“I’ve encountered too many constituents on fixed incomes who routinely have to choose between feeding their families and buying needed medication or paying improperly estimated water bills, which, if left unpaid, have the danger of forcing them into homelessness,” Young said in a statement.

No one wants to ask the question, so we will: could these Baltimore residents -odds that we are talking about almost exclusively Black residents are at 100 percent - afford the water rates were correct bills being supplied by the city?

You can't have a community if residents - and the city - decides it doesn't need to pay water bills, deferring higher costs for H20 onto those who actually pay their bills and are productive members of society.

But isn't it wrong to assume - without credible evidence - that it is the Black residents of both Atlanta and Baltimore that aren't paying their water bills? No.

It's not.

Because the one city that keeps on giving provides the answer. Yes, we are talking about Detroit where an estimated 40,000 Black people had their water turned off in the mid-2000s for failing to pay their bills. Extrapolating this out, it seems we can conclude that Stuff Black People Don't Like includes paying utility bills.

The citizens of Detroit - 89 percent Black - have no white residents to transfer the burden of paying a utility to in the form of higher rates for a service they can't provide themselves. Those Black people without water in Detroit suffer - even though the city has relatively low rates - because white people live in the prosperous suburbs they created in escaping the plague of the undertow.

Without a white scapegoat to fit the higher bill, the Detroit Water and Sewage Department (DWSD) has no alternative.

Atlanta and Baltimore do.

Such in life in Black-Run America (BRA). We could have been on Mars, but instead you have to pay for the never-ending sins of a past you had nothing to do with.

Even in something as trivial as utility bills, you can have the burden of those who held to no financial accountability by the state fall on your shoulders. If you are a white Atlanta resident, the next time you get your water bill (or you decide to add up what you have already paid), imagine where that money could be going, were we not living in BRA.

The Black Mecca of America... without a substantial - and growing - white population maintaining the business sector and keeping the city competitive, Atlanta would be nothing more than the Detroit below the Mason Dixon Line.

With Black people spreading out across Metro Atlanta to once exclusively white suburbs (counties), the greatest ecological crisis in America is becoming clear.

Residents Face Eviction from College Park Condos Over Water Dispute: MyFoxATLANTA.com

Freedom Failed: World Star Hip Hop (WSHH) Edition

From a sit-in to a World Star Hip Hop approved Black Brawl: Freedom Failed

Were one of the 48 contiguous states in the Union to decide to go all anti-Federalist and declare that they will honor "Restrictive Covenants," tomorrow, I would move there.

This is the first step toward restoring a sane policy of home ownership and establishing the ability to build long-term capital that can be passed down from generation to generation, allowing REAL WEALTH to be built and accumulated. Only people - family's - who want to establish roots in a community and understand that they (and their posterity) will directly effect the quality of neighborhood and have the ability to sustain an economy for the long-term can understand what it means to build a nation.

As part of the Second Battle of Atlanta - which starts tonight (finally) - I started reading Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. It's a left-of-center read which only needs one simple rebuttal: the Atlanta metropolitan area and surrounding suburbs growth are directly correlated with an innate desire by white people to live as far away from Black people as possible.

When whites abandon one suburb for another, the character of that suburb falls upon the new majority population. The same truth is for a county as well. 

But because "Restrictive Covenants" are unconstitutional (Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948) (LandMark Publication), Clayton County can go from 90 percent white in 1980 to almost 90 percent Black in 2012. Where a thriving community with top schools once existed, you now have the lowest property values in all of Georgia and the worst school system.

The Black Undertow folks. It's real. Damn real.

Also, I'm of the opinion that a business owner should be able to discriminate when it comes to who they will serve. Were this idea to be seriously debated, I'm of the opinion that most white business owners would run for the hills instead of getting behind what is arguably the most pro-business concept (ultimately it would a referendum for freedom) imaginable.

However, I believe that immigrant business owners would nod their heads in approval and get behind this concept, for they largely own the small shops that cater to the Black population of America (taking their lives into their own hands by opening up shop in primarily Black areas).

It is with this in mind that we bring to you latest video of Blacks Behaving Badly (a wonderful term coined by a writer who now pens columns for The Daily Caller). I don't like these types of videos unless they prove a point.

This one does. It directly relates to why Restrictive Covenants must make a comeback (real estate agents would see huge dividends to a restoration of this legal concept on property and who it can be sold to) and why business owners must immediately start demanding that their right to discriminate be restored.

After all, looking at the residential patterns of metro Atlanta citizens, your average white person would rather commute an hour each way to work (10 hours a week; 40 hours a month; 480 hours a year of wasted productivity or time spent with the family) then live next to a Black person or send their kids to a school filled with Black kids who will inevitably bring down the quality of education.

Declaring Restrictive Covenants unconstitutional was a move in the direction of "freedom"; so was the passing of Civil Rights laws that made it impossible for a business owner to discriminate against certain types of customers frequenting their establishment.

Guess what?

Freedom Failed.

Enjoy.

St. Louis Community College at Meramec Finest Black Female Students on Display: Where the Future's so Bright, You Gotta Wear Shades

Shirley from Community: What your average Black woman in America looks like

Nothing more than a quick link to a hilarious story involving a plethora of Black women (one even holding her baby) at the almost exclusively white campus of the St. Louis Community College at Meramec.

The CBS affiliate in St. Louis reports:

It’s the latest video seen around the world, capturing a huge fight at a St. Louis Community College campus. 

The incident, which happened Monday, begins with a woman getting into an argument with another woman while holding her young daughter. One of the women begins to attack the woman as she holds the child. 

Eventually, she backs away and puts the child down and the two really start to go after each other. 

More fights erupt. At one point, a pile of people rolled around in the bushes while throwing punches at each other. 

The first woman even shrieks, “Where’s my baby?!?” 

First faculty members, then campus police step in and try and calm things down. A circle of stunned students stood and watched. 

Of those involved, three were arrested and charged with assault. Five were expelled from the college.

Where's my baby indeed.

The better question should be this: What were these Black women even doing at the community college in the first place? They certainly are nothing like the lovable, hard-working, responsible, dedicated Shirley, the token Black character in NBC's incredible Stuff White People Like (SWPL) show Community -- which is about a rag-tag group of students at... a... community college.

Somewhere, in a military bunker with high-ranking members of the People's Liberation Army and Communist Party officials, the Chinese are laughing at us.