Summary: Stone Mountain, historically one of the sites for Ku Klux Klan's cross-burnings and still today serves as a Confederate tribute, will be topped off with a tower of honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. On the mountain will live a Liberty Bell, symbolizing in the literal meaning of his "I Have a Dream" speech :"Let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia". The Stone Mountain Association states that The "King Monument Bell" would be a much more fitting way of telling the true history of the Mountain.
Analysis: I personally feel that taking down the former KKK sight, obviously, is a good idea. It only praises the dark and bleak history of the African-American race and it, in my opinion, further promotes it. As a highly respected man who has now passed on 47 years and counting, it would only be right to fulfill the wishes and dreams of his desires. Obviously, we haven't truly made leaps and bounds of improvements as far as the treatment of African-Americans are concerned, but taking it one step at a time is the right way to go as far as I'm concerned. I recently saw, "The Mountaintop" at the Dallas Theater Center and, as the spirit is still resonating within me, I have a huge opinion on this. Considering that Stone Mountain is situated in a predominately African-American area, it makes no sense for the meaning of the Mountain to still be the same in this day in age.
Link to Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/living/stone-mountain-mlk-tower-feat/index.html
This is so nice. To have this terrible history replaced with something more happy and uplifting.
ReplyDeleteThis is so nice. To have this terrible history replaced with something more happy and uplifting.
ReplyDeleteI think this is great because a more happy ending was achieved which is always a good thing.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that this has happened, the KKK have only had a negative effect on history, I think that the fact that we have finally realized that this site needed to be rededicated to a better cause is a little sad
ReplyDeleteOut with the old and in with the new. This is what I'm talking about when I say that we should be celebrating the good things that were in an otherwise dark period in American history.
ReplyDelete-Kiyanna Elliott