Stone Mountain

The mass murder by Dylan Roof has had a bad impact on Dixieland.

I just read that the NAACP is talking about dismantling Stone Mountain. I remember when this effort to commemorate the heroes of the South were first etched onto that mountain which is now a great tourist attraction.  At the time, I thought it an unnecessary expense but I think that the NAACP's attitude about it now even more irresponsible.

The NAACP wants to dismantle it somehow or other, but it can only be done with the approval of the Georgia legislature.

Today's generation of young black people show how seriously ill educated they are to the truth of the founding of American, the problem of the North vs. the South in decision making, and the eventual history of trade in the South.

I am not going into the entire history of America from its inception to its great civil war at this writing or any future writing, but I am writing this to say Enough already about defacing and removing all historical monuments.  

History cannot be changed or erased to satisfy the needs of any group of people except to reveal and expose  the particular biases and prejudices of that group.  Everyone may suffer hurts and injured feelings but that is only a fleeting response by an individual or group when opening a wound that has not healed.

Eradicating the memories of men who made decisions that were important to them in a given time will not change the fact that it had occurred. I just wrote a piece about a place in history that Alexander had hated in his lifetime.  In my spiritual journey I felt no hatred toward that  place at all, but was intrigued and impressed with its detailed reliefs.

In time,  Stone Mountain will remain as a proof of how Georgia had felt the need to express its attitudes about the past upon one of its natural wonders.  Why it was carved in the first place is just as important to understand as why the NAACP wants to have it removed today.

Time goes on.  Feelings change according to time and to interpretation of events that occurred.

Let Stone Mountain be.   It represents a state of mind in the Georgians who put it there.