Atlanta Asks State To Consider Stone Mountain Carving Makeover
The Atlanta City Council is asking Gov. Nathan Deal to consider changing the carving on Stone Mountain. On Monday, the Council passed a resolution asking the governor to form a study committee.
Councilman Michael Julian Bond introduced the resolution. He suggested that other people could be added to the carving.
“The founder of Georgia, James Oglethorpe; or Chief Tomochichi; or heaven forbid, the only president to come from this state, James Carter; or his fellow-Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Martin Luther King,” he said. “Georgia’s history is much greater than the four years of the Confederacy.”
The resolution passed 8-to-2.
One of the “no” votes came from Councilman Howard Shook, who said he opposed the resolution because he saw it as divisive instead of constructive.
“I applaud the very painful effort everyone seems to be willing to go through to look at the facts, to talk with one another, and I think we need a lot more of that,” he said. “I think we need to stop picking on each other.”
Stone Mountain is a state park, but the agency that manages it, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, does not receive any state tax dollars.
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