Post by ferris1248 on May 16, 2024 12:13:28 GMT -5
Hank Aaron is a great choice.
"Key Georgia lawmakers got behind a plan three years ago to remove the statue of Confederate leader Alexander Stephens from the U.S. Capitol, but their negotiations stalled amid disputes over whose likeness should replace it."
"Now, a Georgia Republican is pitching a compromise: Atlanta Braves legend Hank Aaron, the late baseball hero who broke Babe Ruth’s home run record."
“There’s nothing more American than baseball, and no one personifies American values more than Hank Aaron,” said state Rep. Trey Kelley, a six-term GOP lawmaker from Cedartown."
“He used his influence to advance civil rights, inspire entrepreneurship and hammer home the Georgia we know today,” he added.
"Kelley’s proposal reopens a long-running debate over who should represent Georgia at the U.S. Capitol. And it comes as other Southern states are revisiting their selections to the National Statuary Hall."
"There’s broad consensus over removing Stephens, a white supremacist who was the vice president of the Confederacy and famously denounced the Declaration of Independence’s contention that “all men are created equal.”
"An avowed secessionist, Stephens maintained in his famous “Cornerstone Speech” that slavery was the “natural and normal condition” of Black people."
www.ajc.com/politics/republicans-pitch-plan-to-replace-rebel-leader-with-hank-aaron-statue/F4LBYNCCFBHALFDNGSLLUZVY2A/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TodaysTop5(TT5)&utm_content=6389749
"Key Georgia lawmakers got behind a plan three years ago to remove the statue of Confederate leader Alexander Stephens from the U.S. Capitol, but their negotiations stalled amid disputes over whose likeness should replace it."
"Now, a Georgia Republican is pitching a compromise: Atlanta Braves legend Hank Aaron, the late baseball hero who broke Babe Ruth’s home run record."
“There’s nothing more American than baseball, and no one personifies American values more than Hank Aaron,” said state Rep. Trey Kelley, a six-term GOP lawmaker from Cedartown."
“He used his influence to advance civil rights, inspire entrepreneurship and hammer home the Georgia we know today,” he added.
"Kelley’s proposal reopens a long-running debate over who should represent Georgia at the U.S. Capitol. And it comes as other Southern states are revisiting their selections to the National Statuary Hall."
"There’s broad consensus over removing Stephens, a white supremacist who was the vice president of the Confederacy and famously denounced the Declaration of Independence’s contention that “all men are created equal.”
"An avowed secessionist, Stephens maintained in his famous “Cornerstone Speech” that slavery was the “natural and normal condition” of Black people."
www.ajc.com/politics/republicans-pitch-plan-to-replace-rebel-leader-with-hank-aaron-statue/F4LBYNCCFBHALFDNGSLLUZVY2A/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TodaysTop5(TT5)&utm_content=6389749
gotta go with the hulkster.
