So yesterday I was reading about the Apollo 16 moon landing and how NASA had enhanced the video shot on the moon from 12 fps to 60 fps. Fps stands for frames per second. The difference is remarkable. You can check out the original 12 fps footage here. Anyway while I was checking out the 60 fps footage, astronaut John Young mentions something about climbing up Stone Mountain. (That’s him in the picture.) I’m like what does Stone Mountain have to do with the moon landing? For those who are not familiar with Stone Mountain, carved into its rockface is the largest confederate monument in the United States. Funded by the Klu Klux Klan and Daughters Of The Confederacy, the likeness of jefferson davis, robert e. lee, and stonewall jackson adorn its north face, the largest bas-relief artwork in the world. Bas-relief just means the art work and background are attach to each other and are made of the same material. Anywho you could tell from the video recording that John thought about “not” saying it reminded him of Stone Mountain… but went ahead and said it anyway. Immediate afterwards Charlie Duke, the youngest astronaut to ever step on the moon… said something about seeing a “b-tch.” Nope, I’m not making this up.. He says it more than once… Lets checkout the tape first and then continue. If you prefer to just listen to the relevant material, it starts around the 30 second mark and goes through the 1 minute, 37 second mark, where someone else says, “I’m glad you can recognize that..”
OMG!! I think I have to agree with you Charlie Duke, I think I see a b-tch too. I guess Charlie was thinking, why would John bring that Klan shatt all the way up here? Well to tell you the truth Charlie I don’t know why either.. John’s from California. Anyway the year was 1972 and it was end of the beginning of the struggle for civil rights.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
So what’s Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore got in common? They were both sculpted by John Gutzon dat la Mothefuca Borglum.. Oops my bad, sorry that’s a misspelling.. I meant to say John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum. Earlier in this piece I said the Stone Mountain bas relief sculpture was the largest of its kind in the world. The entire carved surface measures an astounding 1.57 acres, just shy of the area of a professional football field. The carving of the three traitors is 400 feet above the ground and measures 76 by 158 feet. The three scoundrels are carved 42 feet into the mountain. The deepest point of the carving is at the head traitor, Massa Lee’s right elbow, which is 12 feet deeper into the mountain’s surface. The president of the Atlanta NAACP called it “the largest shrine to white supremacy in the history of the world.” So not to get off the story, but since I’m from DC, I thought I would mention that the statue in the park on Sheridan Circle in N.W, DC is a Borglum sculpting of Union General Philip Sheridan. You ever heard of a policy called “scorched earth”? It is believed it came about during a campaign Sheridan waged in the Shenandoah Valley where he burned everything that was “not” already on fire. The Valley was a source of food for the confederate army. The local residents called it “The Burning.” Anywho the circle is right there at 22nd and Mass. N.W. So while it’s not a statue of a confederate traitor, the man who made it… Borglum, was a double sheeted, stiff card carrying, pure and fair of heart Klu Klux Klan member of the highest racist order…. hot diggity dog…. Yahoooo!!
You Can Take Rebel’s Out Of the Yankees But..
Anonymous picture of United Daughters Of The Confederacy
Circa 1908
You can’t take the yankee out of rebels… No one knows whose idea it was to carve the confederate’s likenesses on the mountain. Some say it was Francis Ticknor, a physician and poet who proposed it in an 1869 poem called “I Wish A Nigga Would”. Okay.. I don’t know the name of the poem… but I wouldn’t try em’ back in 1869 Georgia… The idea was again brought up in 1914 by William H. Terrell, an Atlanta attorney and son of a confederate veteran. It gained steam a few weeks later after an article in the New York American by editor John Temple Graves. Graves said lets put a 70 ft tall statue of marsh lee there. marsh was a nickname for general robert lee.. ( I don’t spell traitors names using capital letters..) Anywho, one of the reason’s it picked up steam was because Graves had been the vice presidential nominee for the Independence Party in 1908. Their party platform consisted of two planks… “The only good one is a dead one and a promise to plant a tree in front of every courthouse…” okay you’re right… I really need to stop that… It just that when I think of the latter part of the 19th century.. well lets just say they was big on Ephesians 6:5 “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart.” Anyway let me get back on track.. That same year in 1914 Borglum was introduced to Helen Plane, a chartered member of the confederate daughters of the United States and she was head Karen in charge for life at the Georgia chapter. Karen… I mean Helen set up the Stone Mountain Memorial Association to raise money for the project and chose Borglum as the sculptor. Now although Borglum was for all intensive purposes a bonafide stiff card caring Klan member, Plane refuse to shake his hand… because after all was said and done and with Borglum being from New York and all… well he was still a Yankee.. Ima tell you right now, Plane was a cold blooded 6th generation Klan racist… She once wrote Borglum, “I feel it is due to the Klan which saved us from Negro dominations and carpetbag rule, that they be immortalized on Stone Mountain. Why not represent a small group of them in their nightly uniform approaching in the distance?” Yep that’s what I call a pure red blooded Kluxia.. You can take rebels out of the Yankees but… you can’t take the yankee out of rebels… If Borglum was alive he would be hearing me playing my drums right now.. boom.. boom boom.. tap..tap.. tap… anywhoooooo… She introduced him to Sam Venable who was the owner of the mountain and Exalted Bearer Of The Golden Flame… he’s the one that lights the torch at night… he was a straight up hot red clay Georgia racist Klan member, whose motto was “Let’s use the short rope..” Yessiree Bob.. it was a dangerous time back then for black folks. Anywho.. Venable deeded the mountain to the Daughters Of The Confederacy on the condition that the confederate monument be completed within 12 years.
I Got You Under My Skin
White actor in black face playing part of black soldier.
In 1936 a song writer name Cole Porter wrote the lyrics and the music to a song called “I Got You Under My Skin.” It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and it became a signature song for Frank Sinatra that same year. So why did I bring up this 1936 gem? Because that’s exactly what the Stone Mountain Memorial Association did to Borglum… they crawled up and got “deep” under his skin… I mean they was literally sitting there on his veins and blood vessels with their legs crossed plucking his hair roots. Borglum’s original plan called for five groups of figures, sixty-five mounted officers to be chosen by the states and general nathan bedford forrest and his cavalry, ( bedford was the first national grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan) No less than 700 calvary figures, each from 35 feet to 50 feet high and a room cut 60 feet into the mountain, 320 feet wide, 40 feet high, with 13 white columns. Thirteen is the number of confederate states that took up arms against the United States. The whole thing was to be paid for by support from the Klan and from the federal government.. that’s right.. I said federal government. The federal government minted coins with the stone mountain on them and sold them to help finance the project. It was also the time of one of the most racist movies ever shown to the American public.. Birth Of A Nation. Originally called the Clansmen, the movie was about a Southern family and a Northern family brought together by circumstance. It focused on the era following the Civil War called the Reconstruction. Basically the picture portrays the North as having a real beef for the South after the assassination of Lincoln. They take it out on the South by enacting draconian measures during the Reconstruction and how black folks were elevated over whites. One scene shows blacks stuffing ballot boxes while preventing whites from voting. The depravity in which Griffith portrayed African Americans has not been equaled in modern times. It showed blacks as being lazy and shiftless, as in the scene where we are shown with our feet on the desks at work while eating fried chicken and watermelon. One of the main characters comes up with the idea of wearing whites sheets after seeing some white kids scare some black kids by pretending to be ghost. Of course no bonafide racist movie would be complete without a black man desiring a white woman. A black union soldier follows a fair white maiden into the woods and professes his love for her and his wish to be married. She runs for her life and threatens to kill herself by jumping off a cliff if he comes closer. He does and she jumps. The main character who sees what happened gathers some men together and goes out to hunt the black man down. Well they eventually catch him and you know what happened… it was the short rope from a tall tree on a black and white screen for 10 minutes… So remember when I said they showed black men stuffing ballots boxes? Well the ballot stuffing was in order to get their man elected. When their man heard about the black soldier being lynched, he cracks down on the white sheets and with the desire to punish them further passes a law allowing for interracial marriage. That interracial marriage thing lit a fire in them!! “Hot diggity dog, now he done went and did something!!” So I said the movie was about a northern and southern family. Well the women who killed herself was from the northern family and the man who saw the woman jump was from the southern family. The man who saw her jump to her death had fallen in love with the woman’s sister while she cared for him when he was a prisoner of war. Anywho, the elected official put out a warrant for the southern man who had hung the black union soldier and for the father of the northern family whose daughter had jumped off the cliff and who had aided in southern man’s escape. The northern dad is eventually captured, but the southern man breaks him out. Together they flee to the house of a sympathizer. Once enemies… the north and south unite against the usurpers and the black beast to secure their god given Aryan birthright. ( Excuse me while I throw up…) Okay I’m back…. so to make a long story short, the white sheets rescues the southerner and dad from the sympathizers home which had been surrounded by the elected official men. During the next election armed white sheets on horses stand outside all the black men’s homes and intimidate them into not voting. The klansmen celebrate in the streets and members of the northern and southern family get married. The final scene shows how the masses are oppressed by a giant warlike figure who gradually fades away. That figure represents the “northern aggressors and their negro horde.” ( Cough!! Cough!! Choke.. Choke..) The scene shifts to another group finding peace under the image of Jesus Christ. I don’t have to tell you who was standing under the image of Christ right? The movie was classified as a cultural, historical, and an aesthetically significant film and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Getting Back To Georgia
(Cross burning on Stone Mountain)
Man… after writing about Birth Of A Nation, I had to go wash my hands and paint my bathroom… Anywho, so yeah the federal government and the Klan financed the Stone Mountain confederate monument. So now that the project was on the drawing board and Borglum had begun work, someone threw a wrench in the gears. Well it was more than one wrench.. While working on the monument there came to be questions about how the money was being spent. To make matters worst Borglum, Venable and the Stone Mountain Memorial Association aligned with different national Klan leaders who fought each other tooth and nail. Remember general nathan bedford forrest had been the only grand dragon to be elected to head the entire Klu Klux Klan organization. Even to this day, no one else has held that post. It was messier than an IHOP after the clubs closed. Anywho, they fired Borglum and he fled to North Carolina, but not before he destroyed his models, claiming that they were his property. The Association was furious!! “Hot diggity dog, he done went and did something now!!” They issued an warrant for his arrest, but the governor of North Carolina refuse to extradite him. The face of marsh lee which Borglum had started was blasted off the mountain and he was forbidden from ever returning to Georgia. Another sculptor was chosen to complete the work in 1925. By 1928 he too had quit because of infighting between the Association, Venable and the Klan. They tried it again in 1941 to get the thing done.. but the US entry into WWII put that on hold. So it seemed no matter what they did.. they just couldn’t get it up… so I’m not going to touch that no mo… yep Ima leave it alone… In 1954 the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education had been won in the Supreme Court by Thurgood Marshall and the beginning seeds of the Civil Right movement had been planted. As a response to the negra’s wanting to be equal to the white man, segregationist Governor Marvin Griffin and the Georgia legislature approved a measure to purchase Stone Mountain at a price of $1.125 million. In 1964 work began again on the monument and in 1965 the Stone Mountain Park was opened. The park was opened on April 14… one hundred years to the day after the assassination of President Lincoln. They put four confederate flags out front and dedicated a section of the park to be known as the memorial lawn, where the flags of the thirteen confederate states are flown around a dias of thirteen terraces, each representing a confederate state. The monument carving was finally completed on March 3, 1972. It took them 64 years to get them three traitors and their horses likeness on that mountain. It probably would have took longer if Borglum hadn’t destroyed his models. So from its inception Stone Mountain has been sacred to the Klan. During the first fifty years while the monument was being carved, they would hold an annual cross burning on Labor Day The cross was 16 feet high and had fried chicken and watermelons hanging from it… okay.. okay.. I’ll stop… The practice stopped after the property they were burning the cross on was condemned by the state.
The Not F**king Around Coalition
Leader calling out to Klan.. “We are in your house!!”
In 2015 after the Charleston Church Massacre, a renewed interest in removing the confederate likenesses from the mountain came to the public arena. The discussion came about as a result of the national push to remove all confederate legacies from public property following the killings.
The Confederate sculpture at Stone Mountain is] the largest shrine to white supremacy in the history of the world … I don’t think people understand the objective and the intent. They don’t understand that it’s based on white supremacy because the American Civil War was based on white supremacy, and the ‘heroes’ are based on white supremacy. After the killings at Emanuel Church in Charleston, it finally crystallized for me that these monuments encourage violence and validate oppression.— President of the NAACP, Richard Rose- April 18, 2018
Last year Georgia threw 87,000 people off the voter rolls. It is one of the leading offenders of voter suppression in the United States. Outside money floods the Georgian political landscape. You want to know one of the reasons why they want to suppress the minority vote in Georgia? Stone Mountain is a state park. It is against the law in Georgia to remove the confederate carving without the approval of the state legislature. If anti- confederate forces control the state legislature they would have the power to remove the largest monument to white supremacy in the world. It would be a devastating blow to every racist in the country… maybe even the world.
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This year a new force entered into the Stone Mountain Monument controversy. Known as the “NFAC,” or for those who like myself prefer the literal name of the black organization.. the “Not F**king Around Coaliltion, marched straight into the proverbial heart of Dixie… with automatic weapons and said something about we waiting. The boys in black figured they needed to take a stand and it was said their leader told his troops to kiss their loved ones goodbye. They was there for business and there were hundreds of them. As they marched into the defining altar of white supremacy and stood under the gazes of the titans of the confederacy, not a red crossed flag or a white sheet could be seen for miles. I did come across a video on Youtube from a fellow named Bo, who said the NFAC was a danger to all American’s and I wanted to show it too you… but it had been taken down. I don’t wanna say the NFAC made him take it down… but you never know… So that’s the story of Stone Mountain. But before we leave you. here is a short video on the NFAC march on Stone Mountain. This is Hill1News.. good night. ( I always wanted to say that…)
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