Re: Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:40:04 -0400
Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday
against a state park with the largest Confederate monument in the
country, arguing officials broke state law by planning an exhibit on
ties to slavery, segregation and white supremacy. Stone Mountain’s
massive carving depicts Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Gen.
Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson on horseback … State law
protects the carving from any changes … Sons of the Confederate Veterans
members have defended the carvings as honoring Confederate soldiers. The
new exhibit would “completely repurpose the Stone Mountain Memorial
Park” and “utterly ignore the purpose of the Georgia legislature in
creating and maintaining” the park, the lawsuit says.

You know what? They've kind of got a point.  The monument was to honor fallen soldiers, regardless of what they were fighting for.

Haven't seen the monument but now I'm kind of intrigued.