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Atlanta attorney Gerald Griggs also wants to see the Confederate carving removed from Stone Mountain. In a post on X, the president of the Georgia NAACP said that day one of the legislative session should be used to remove all Confederate symbols from state grounds and state parks and to take the Confederate carvings off the face of Stone Mountain.

Griggs is asking for removal of these symbols, not a plaque, not a museum label, just removal of these symbols. "Georgia has an opportunity to move forward," he wrote. "Let's make sure our policies reflect the future we want to build, not the history we need to leave behind."

That's not a plan to understand history better. It's to erase it by sandblasting it. The granite figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson carved into the side of the mountain will not change the date of 1865 no matter how hard you scrape. Calling the blank rock history would not make it so.

Georgia law, found in O.C.G.A. section 12-3-192.1, says the purposes of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association include maintaining an appropriate and suitable memorial for the Confederacy. A legislature that ordered the mountain sandblasted would be repealing that charge, not carrying it out.

Xi Van Fleet, who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution, named the method. "Communists have always sought to erase and rewrite history. Only by severing a people from their past can they remake society in their own image. I know this because I lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution."

The Cultural Revolution did not argue over the destruction of temples, books and graves. It destroyed them. The end for the Communist regime of that time was to create a people with no memory of the past which they could more easily rule. Griggs is asking Georgia to do a slightly different version of this and for the state to praise him while he carries out the destruction.

However, there is a huge difference between teaching a full and accurate history of the war, including its causes of slavery, the North's economic war against the South, the decision for secession and defeat, and destroying a part of that history. Erasure is not education.

It is Maoism.

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