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  • Re: Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slav

    From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 17 11:17:24 2025
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:40:04 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    "completely repurpose the Stone Mountain Memorial Park"

    Stone Mountain, once owned by the Venable Brothers,[1] was purchased
    by the state of Georgia in 1958 "as a memorial to the Confederacy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain

    completely repurpose

    "The fact that the KKK was born here in 1915..."

    Editor's note: When this story first ran in October 2015, there seemed
    to be real momentum for some kind of tribute to Dr. King at Stone
    Mountain Park. However, at this time the idea remains just an idea.
    ....
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution described how state authorities,
    including Gov. Nathan Deal, had agreed to erect a monument to [Dr.
    Martin Luther] King featuring the words "Let freedom ring from Stone
    Mountain of Georgia."

    It will be more than the plaque that Pozner suggested, but an elevated
    tower -- featuring a replica of the Liberty Bell to symbolically and
    physically "let freedom ring."
    ...
    Pozner had no idea that Bill Stephens, the CEO of the memorial
    association, was indeed thinking about it. It had been on his mind for
    at least two years.

    On the day before he would appear before the association board, a
    white gunman walked into a black church in Charleston and massacred
    nine worshippers.

    https://www.ajc.com/news/local/birth-idea-where-the-king-monument-stone-mountain-came-from/HFpAfVTvdwvTXR4Td6UjHP/

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to Auric Hellman on Sat Jul 19 09:15:53 2025
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:40:04 -0400
    Auric Hellman <[email protected]> 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.

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