Stone Mt. - Needs to be dynamited

[Spider Jerusalem]

115. What can we learn from Stone Mountain?

"Some white supremacists wanted to put up an enormous monument to the Klan but ran out of money and had to settle for a monument to the leaders of a rebellion fought for the right to enslave human beings, instead"?

And Washington was the commanding general of the Continental Army, rejected a crown, and set a model of honorable service and willing retirement to private life that American presidents since have mostly followed. Lee? He went to fight for slavery. The secession ordinances of the seceding states make it abundantly clear that they went to war to preserve slavery. The Confederacy was the aggressor; the first shots weren't fired by the Union troops at Fort Sumter.

And unlike you, I am from the South; I have ancestors who owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy (neither of which I'm particularly proud of). That's something that should be remembered, but it shouldn't be memorialised. There are no statues of Hitler in Germany, yet somehow they've managed to not forget what he did.