Remove the Confederate Memorial? Is Mt. Rushmore next?

By Jack Brummet, Public Art Ed.

The largest relief carving  in the world is in Georgia.  But an Atlanta man (and a lot of other people) wants the Confederate Memorial relief on Stone Mountain removed.  "It's almost like a black eye or an embarrassing smudge on our culture," McCartney Forde told 11Alive News on Monday.  The 600 foot wide carving depicts Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson. The monument, started in 1923 was completed in 1972.

People object to the monument because two of the people depicted were slave-owners.

Interestingly enough, that's also true of Mount Rushmore. . .

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