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   From: cap@philhendrie.con   
      
   As calls to remove Confederate monuments have increased in recent years across   
   the U.S., the debate over what to do with the biggest one is getting louder.   
      
   Monthly board meetings of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association are held in a   
   spacious resort hotel ballroom nestled inside the Georgia park. As the social   
   justice movement has gained steam, so have the crowds at the meetings. Tension   
   is bubbling up between those who want the 90-foot tall Confederate carving   
   removed and those who think it should stay.   
      
   The carving at the center of the debate is the largest Confederate monument in   
   the world. It depicts Confederate Gens. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and   
   president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, on horseback.   
      
   Grady Vickery is with the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He grew up near the   
   park.   
      
   "What it means to me is that, being a lifelong student of history, local   
   history, Georgia history, your history, my history, it's all common history   
   folks," said Vickery. "This carving is a monument."   
      
   While the imagery on the carving calls to mind the Civil War, no battles were   
   fought at Stone Mountain. None of the three men was from Georgia, and the   
   carving isn't even that old, having been finished in 1972.   
      
   That's why John Evans, the former leader of a local NAACP chapter, dismisses   
   the   
   "heritage" argument. He says the carving represents one thing: a continuation   
   of   
   white supremacy, well past the Civil War.   
      
   https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1007924006/confederate-imagery-on   
   stone-mountain-is-changing-but-not-fast-enough-for-some   
      
   Evans is right, and Vickery, the descendant of traitors, is wrong.  The   
   monument   
   is not "history," and its only purpose was to reinforce Jim Crow.  Dynamite the   
   atrocity.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)