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[–] Heresyoursign [S] ago 

He is celebrated. Name a state in the South that doesn't have at least one MLK Blvd. He has multiple statues and monuments scattered throughout the country. By no means do I think this is a bad thing, but he is probably the most honored man in the country if you were to count up all of his statues, memorials, roads, and schools named after him. I do not think Stone Mountain is an appropriate place for another MLK statue. The one in Atlanta is just dandy. The state purchased Stone Mountain to preserve it as a memorial to the Confederacy. It is not a theme park. It's not a rec center. It's a park dedicated to and honoring the Confederacy and the Confederate dead and it is completely inappropriate for a civil rights leader to be honored in a Confederate memorial park.