Now let's dynamite the rest.

The racist KKKlansmen in our extended family scheduled our family reunion in 1993 at Stone Mountain. The liberal branch of my family (of which I am a proud member) agreed to show up, but weren't happy about the venue.

When we, the black sheep of the flock, arrived on the greensward that faces the carved Confederate monument on the side of the mountain, honoring Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, I said out loud:"Those are the worst portraits of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman I've ever seen!"

My mother, brother, and sister frantically tried to shush me, whisper-screaming: "SHHHHHHH! You can't talk like that down here!

It was fun...

But if it does, it will spark a violent backlash that would make Charlottesville look like prayer circle at summer camp.

I LOVE what you said! I'm going to borrow that....

My ancestry is based in Georgia and Alabama. In fact, my 4x/great-grandfather, Bright W. Hargrove, signed the Articles of Secession for the State of Georgia.

I was born in Texas, and live in Washington State. I tend to be less and less proud of my Southern ancestry the more and more Confederate sympathizers talk about their 'heritage'. Maybe someday, it can be something to be proud of again. There's certainly a strong history of Southern progressivism. Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Morris Dees and the SPLC, Jimmy Carter, Mike Papantonio, etc.

Evil pinko commie!

I just might make the same mistake next time I visit SM.

There's a hundred foot tall likeness of Jefferson Davis carved into the side of a mountain, and people are concerned about a ten foot cross burning?

It's like looking at a picture of the Nuremberg rally and complaining that one of the guys in the background is racist.

(I feel very nihilistic today)

People who killed American citizens in furtherance of their demented beliefs on slavery are anti-American. Better they be forgotten entirely. But if these asswipes need to be honored by their countrymen, let them do it in the Confederate States of America. If you can find any such country after the United States wiped it off the map 150 years ago.

A monument to traitors