Stone Mt's Dem, AA Congressman has no problem with the carving remaining.

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3. It's one thing to take down a flag that is offensive to half the population

and quite another to destroy a monument. Doing the latter is what the Taliban and ISIS have done to their heritage sites that don't conform to their interpretation of how things ought to be.

The former is correcting a current and ongoing insult. The latter is revisionism, trying to destroy a historical record in an attempt to make it more palatable. I'm perfectly happy to have old Confederate monuments stand, they record the past even for those of us who don't afford it much honor.