How about a Confederate memorial that tells the truth?
Posted: 2:46 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015
By Bill Torpy - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
... Stone Mountain is a Confederate memorial. It says so in law. ... And since Stone Mountain is a Confederate monument, it ought to properly reflect the .. delusional rebellion ... Slavery, of course, was at the root of it all, but that never played much in the memorialization at the park ... “The first achievement of the neo-Confederacy was to stand history on its head and claim the war was for states’ rights ... In fact, it was against states rights” ... Southern women, long portrayed as strong, silent belles, often wrote their husbands urging them to just up and leave, to come home because they were cold and hungry. And many Rebels did just that ... “Very few people are aware or appreciate the historical significance of the contributions of black soldiers to the Union victory, so let’s honor them” ... Stone Mountain is a key part of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan a century ago ... “Atlanta was the headquarters of the revived KKK; we sold it around the nation like it was Coca-Cola” ...
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