A new push to change Georgia law concerning Stone Mountain's Confederate monument

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: March 5, 2025 / 8:58 PM EST


Georgia's Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the largest Confederate carving in the country — has been a point of contention for years. The 3,200-acre park sees more than 4 million visitors each year, but it's best known for the large carving of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on the mountainside.

Marcus Patton, who serves on the Stone Mountain Action Coalition, says he's facing an uphill battle as his group fights for what it calls a "more inclusive park." "The thing that troubles me, because I love this place so much, is that many people refer to Stone Mountain. And what they're talking about is the Confederate aspects of it," Patton told CBS News.

SMAC is part of the latest push to tweak Georgia law by swapping out language requiring "an appropriate and suitable Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain" for a new ordinance that would educate the public about the natural history of the mountain and its environment.

The Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which is the state authorities that manages the Georgia park, has made steps to address the park's past. An $11 million "Truth Telling" center is slated to open this fall, with exhibits designed to confront what the association calls "warts" of Georgia and southern history.

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That mess needs to be blasted off the side of that rock face.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I don't want any

Federal Tax Dollars being spent on anything Stone Mountain.

If they are selling off national parks, monuments, etc. etc.

This can be done first. If the people of Georgia want to maintain that monument, let them do it through their State Park funds.

[William Seger]

2. The way the news has been running lately...

... I expected this story to be about carving more Confederate generals on the mountain.

[magicarpet]

3. They could carve Rush Limbaugh, Donald J. Trump, and Stephen Miller into their mountain for honorable mention.

The three could all be dressed up sharply in a Nazi SS uniform.

[mdbl]

6. you really know how to make one vomit

[mdbl]

5. That story would be on the KKK homepage

[GiqueCee]

4. When Gutzon Borglum...

... started work on Stone Mountain, the Civil War was less that 50 years past, and tens of thousands of people still living had first-hand recollections of the horrors visited upon the nation by the traitors being memorialized.
Borglum should never have accepted the commission, but then, he wasn't an American, so he had no skin in the game, so to speak; it was all about the Benjamins for him. He would up getting fired anyway.

[twodogsbarking]

7. How about a rock with nothing on it but sunshine.

[Bayard]

8. Blast it off

As well as the atrocity of the Black Hills--Mt. Rushmore.

[kimbutgar]

10. I was in Atlanta in 1995 for a convention

We had a free day and asked the front desk clerk at our hotel for a good day trip and he mentioned Stone Mountain. We didn’t know it was a confederate monument. Going up in the tram there was a guy screaming white power. I was so uncomfortable being a light skinned woman who could pass for white. I was off that tram so quickly and told my husband he needed to take out son in his stroller off the tram. Up on the top it was hot as hell and I overheard the tour guide give the history of the mountain. We didn’t stay up there long. But I see it would be a perfect reuse of the monument to show the current vile traitors to our country.

That mountain is a perfect representation of fascism and racism history in our country.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I was down there too around the same time for a training course

ahead of the Olympics but definitely did not even go anywhere outside of the city - let alone Stone Mountain.

A bunch of us ended up going to the Underground.

Was down there again around 2001 when one of my cousins got married, and was with my sisters & mom and mom wanted to see CNN (she was a Ted Turner fan) and Ebeneezer Baptist Church (which was being renovated at the time but we could still go in there and at least look at (but not go into) the auditorium area (nave) of the church, plus we visited the MLK Center (and the eternal flame there).

That airport was a trip itself with the subway-like transit from terminal to terminal.

[JoseBalow]

12. Target practice