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

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CHARLOTTE KRAMON
Updated 9:32 PM CDT, July 3, 2025

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — 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. Critics who have long pushed for changes say the monument enshrines the “Lost Cause” mythology that romanticizes the Confederate cause as a state’s rights struggle, but state law protects the carving from any changes.

After police brutality spurred nationwide reckonings on racial inequality and the removal of dozens of Confederate monuments in 2020, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which oversees Stone Mountain Park, voted in 2021 to relocate Confederate flags and build a “truth-telling” exhibit to reflect the site’s role in the rebirth of the Klu Klux Klan, along with the carving’s segregationist roots.

The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans also alleges in earlier court documents that the board’s decision to relocate Confederate flags from a walking trail violates Georgia law.



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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Monument to traitors needs counterbalancing truth-telling. . . . .nt

[mdbl]

2. The fact that we still have "confederacy groups" shows our nation is still malignant with sickness

[lonely bird]

3. Sigh

The “monument” should have been blasted off the mountain decades ago.

They. Were. Traitors.

If this whole Confederacy bullshit is about history or heritage, well, slavery was their heritage too and that deserves to be there just as much as those traitors do.

[GB_RN]

5. Come, Come Now...

We can’t be hurting their fee-fees by telling the truth. I mean, paraphrasing Mr Mackey from South Park, “realities are bad, mmmmkay?” 😁😂

[Silent Type]

4. That carving was finished in 1972. An honest to gawd Klan Grand Wizard sold the mountain to Ga's racist government

to finish it.

It's a great Park -- except for that damn carving which is an affront to decent people. I've refused to go there for decades, even though I grew up right down the street. I've also advocated covering it in Kudzu until the carving can be properly removed.

Some of my favorite SM memes:

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[Marthe48]

6. Great memes

Trying to be gracious winners hasn't worked. The south committed obscenities, first by endorsing, promoting and expanding slavery, then by attacking their own country to protect their oppression.

Time to use our victory to enforce our ethics.

[Silent Type]

7. I keep a whole folder of Stone Mountain memes. In my areas of country, Klan sympathizers love to post Stone Mountain's

carving. I'm talking daily, sometimes more often. I am equally triggered by confederate flags.

I always respond with memes like that. I cannot explain how much I despise that place because of the carving and racist history.

Here's one more meme:

[Marthe48]

9. Hang in there

I'm in a Dem group on FB. Someone posted this comment:

"Jon Meachem well known author said Trump has taken the pendulem (sic) so far to the right that it will swing back so fast and far that we will be looking at president AOC!"

[oasis]

13. Incestors? What kinda dummies are we dealing

with?

[Retrograde]

11. Thanks for the top picture

Usually, pictures I've seen of the rock are cropped so the carvings are front and center, fooling the viewer who's never seen the real thing into thinking it's a complete, composed carving. You don't see all the blasted, bare rock around it, which IMHO makes the overall impression look even uglier than I imagined. What blatant destruction of a rare, naturally occurring piece of the landscape to glorify some people's sense of superiority.

[Paladin]

8. One of the most repulsive monuments in the nation.

Those who admire and defend it are pieces of shit. End of story.

[kimbutgar]

10. I've been there and didn't know it was a confederate monument

Once I found out I didn’t stay long. And I took the tram to the top of the mountain and this guy kept saying white power white power on the ride up. My son was still in a stroller and I told my husband to take him off the tram because I wanted to run away from that tram and also punch the guy!

[Martin68]

12. Lost Cause traitorous losers.