How much rope will it take to pull down Stone Mountain? Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis.

[BamaRefugee]

Substantial funding for the project came from the KKK, which met on the mountain's top to burn crosses and the project's first directors and promoters were Klan members.

Being Scottish and Southern, I've been there for Highland Games.

[Sherman A1]

1. It was carved into the mountain side

it can be blasted off of it.

[lagomorph777]

2. I'd say about 100lbs of AMFO

[ProfessorGAC]

9. A Lot More Than That

Unless we plan and drilling and filling!
Just at the face it would take about the same amount of AMFO used by other insurrectionist traitors. Their names were McVeigh & Nichols!
Using that amount also creates a symmetry. A traitor's recipe for a monument to traitors.

[2naSalit]

11. I figure that drill & fill is the best way to handle it...

You just want the mural gone. A blast big enough to accomplish that task would also be enough to shake up the shitty vibes of that place.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I Like The Face Blast Myself

The reflective pressure wave could do some damage to the visitors' center!

[2naSalit]

15. Or it could be reworked...

Like those currently represented, it's a shallow relief that could be completely obliterated with a new image.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. MLK?

[2naSalit]

18. A good candidate for such an honor!

I can't think of anyone else at the moment, though that's not saying much. I'm sure there are enough possibilities to make a good list.

[Iggo]

36. I vote for Alfred E Neuman. (n/t)

[scarytomcat]

47. people might confuse that with a picture of Bush the little

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. Consult the Taliban

They are pretty good at such things.

[jeffreyi]

39. Yeah.

[Marcuse]

4. "It's the only way to be sure"

[Submariner]

23. I would give the demolition job to Tuskegee Airmen descendants

going in at tree top level with Hellfire missiles to enjoy the close up view.

[DBoon]

5. I'd replace it with something Georgia could be proud of

Like an iconic mural of this photo:

[Roland99]

8. Or...

https://www.discogs.com/artist/74500-REM/images

[DBoon]

20. or...

[Roland99]

21. didn't know about them from GA

[DBoon]

22. They certainly are

and have contributed more to the betterment of society than any confederate officer

[aikoaiko]

45. Something extraordinary happened in Athens, GA in the late 1970s thru the 1980s

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/books/review/cool-town-athens-music-grace-elizabeth-hale.html

Dance This Mess Around: When Georgia Recreated Rock ’n’ Roll

COOL TOWN

How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

By Grace Elizabeth Hale

There was a time when Athens, Ga., a sleepy Southern college town, was known mostly for the passionate sis-boom-bah of University of Georgia football fans who descended there on select Saturdays in the fall. But that was before the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a hundred post-punk flowers bloomed in American towns and cities far beyond downtown New York. Athens, improbably, proved to be an early bloomer, and soon found itself overrun with weird rock ’n’ roll bands. A few of those bands got huge.

In her new book, “Cool Town,” Grace Elizabeth Hale, a professor of history and American studies at the University of Virginia, describes how Athens found itself at Generation X’s artistic vanguard, birthing the glorious notes-on-camp party band the B-52’s, the jangly art-rock juggernaut R.E.M., and scores of other provocative and influential groups — along the way becoming “the model,” as Hale argues, “for the small, deeply local bohemias that together formed ’80s indie culture.”

It’s fair to ask why the world needs a book about an ’80s indie-rock hot spot at a moment when rock ’n’ roll, as a genre, seems to be in retrograde, and the pop universe blazes with San Juan polyrhythms, Seoul choreography and Atlanta Afro-futurism.

But with this meticulously reported microhistory, Hale, who once played in a band and ran an underground club in Athens, delivers more than a love song to the music. “Cool Town” also serves up a textured portrait of a generation caught between baby and tech booms, wriggling under the thumb of the mainstream — in the pre-internet days when “mainstream” was a discernible thing — and rummaging through thrift-store bins both literal and figurative in an effort to create something new.

[Roland99]

46. +1

[2naSalit]

12. I like that idea!

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Seriously, quite a dilemma..............

Has become such an "historical landmark" that the idea of eliminating it will cause tons of debate/conflict.
It is wrong in SO many ways, and yet...........

It will take people far more brilliant and understanding AND powerful to resolve this one......

[malaise]

7. Less than the rope used to lynch African Americans

over the centuries

[LuvNewcastle]

10. Unlike a lot of these monuments,

I think Stone Mountain is a work of art. I’d leave it alone.

[2naSalit]

14. Could be reworked into a more inclusive image.

[maxsolomon]

29. An allegorical tableau of Confederate Surrender.

Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Fred Douglas...

[2naSalit]

31. I would prefer something not war related...

but it's not for me to say what should happen to that thing.

[Brother Mythos]

16. I'd like to see the Traitors' Mountain Monument used for target practice.

And, the irony is those Turd loving gun fondlers won't be able to resist shooting at it.

[Hoyt]

19. Sandblast it.

[Goonch]

24. Air Force prepare detonation cord

Two Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (RED HORSE) Airmen from RED HORSE units around the Air Force prepare detonation cord to be wrapped around a telephone pole during explosive demolition training at the 820th RED HORSE explosive demolition range on Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., June 9, 2015. The purpose of wrapping the pole is to cause an Abatis shot, which is used to leave obstacles to block routes of travel or egress.

[RainCaster]

25. I think a sex change would be proper

Just modify the figures and truly offend all those Bubbas and Beauregards.
1 shave off the beards
2. Remove the hats
3 cut down the uniforms, leaving ample boosoms and bare legs.

[Cracklin Charlie]

26. Not a bad idea!

[Warren_Pointe]

27. How about a 200 foot statue of General Sherman holding a Tiki torch

across the street. Something for everyone!

[Ex Lurker]

28. Sherman was a white supremacist too

as well as commited genocide against Native Americans.

[maxsolomon]

30. Grant, then.

Or Abe.

[Major Nikon]

34. So facebook reminds us lately

The difference is that's not what he is remembered for

[jeffreyi]

42. Sherman destroyed the buffalo, also. To subjugate the Indians.

I actually enjoyed reading Sherman's autobiography. His life intersected with an amazing number of historically singular events...the California gold rush, the Bear Flag rebellion, of course the Civil War. I think I remember reading that towards the end of his life he had some regrets about the treatment of the American Indians. But he sure did his part in exterminating Indian people and culture.

[Major Nikon]

32. I've been there

It's not just a mountain, it's one continuous rock. It's so big there's a cable car that takes you to the top. It's also quite beautiful despite the traitorous shitstains defacing it.

Better to grind off the carving and convert the whole site as a Civil Rights Memorial to make up for the 50 continuous years it was used for cross burning parties by the lowest scum of society.

[pwb]

33. Artillery.

Could deface it.

[BamaRefugee]

35. Go to Sherwin-Williams. Buy tan paint and white paint. Use tan to paint a pole in each one's hand

Use the white to paint huge white flags on each pole.
Voila!
Still historically accurate.

[Ex Lurker]

37. Apparently it will take years of environmental impact statements and millions upon millions of

dollars. https://www.ajc.com/news/local/how-the-confederates-might-actually-come-off-stone-mountain/ABGCU0QtPdu3WJMaZ0pR6N/

[blogslut]

38. Christo and Jeanne-Claude would have found a way

I never appreciated their work until you brought this up. They coulda wrapped that trash bas-relief until somebody figured out a more permanent solution.

[Hassler]

40. Just hire someone to paint a mural over it. Or a graffiti artist to

Target it.

[BamaRefugee]

41. BANKSY!

[Yeehah]

43. Give me a 105mm pack howitzer

and I'll make it go away.

[Celerity]

44. the Swedish Archer Artillery System

Fastest Howitzer in The World

fully automated 155 mm/L52 gun howitzer and a M151 Protector remote controlled weapon station mounted on a modified 6×6 chassis of the Volvo A30D, all-terrain articulated hauler