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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.