Stone Mountain l'ultime monument sudiste

Alors que le débat fait rage sur la question du retrait des monuments sudistes, on se demande quel sort réservé aux personnages gravés dans la pierre de Stone Mountain en Georgie. Non seulement on y représente trois figures dont on a retiré les monuments ailleurs, mais l'oeuvre est située là où est né le KKK. La connotation raciale ne peut être plus évidente.

 "Covering more than 17,000 square feet of mountain and 40 feet deep in the crannies, the carving is reportedly the largest flat relief sculpture in the world. Looming over a popular public park like a stone-age billboard, it was conceived by Southern Confederate groups a century ago at the birthplace of the modern Ku Klux Klan and remains an icon for white supremacists.

 Now, calls to remove what may be the planet’s largest Confederate monument have roiled Georgia’s gubernatorial election and sparked what could be the most complex of the hot-button Rebel memorial fights erupting across the country."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/19/stone-mountain-the-ugly-past-and-fraught-future-of-the-biggest-confederate-monument/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_stonemountain-245am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.6f47f065e7ca