How white southern men use a set of over-simplified ideas about Robert E. Lee to avoid a reckoning with the true ideology of the Confederacy.
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Deconstructing the South, Part One: Stone Mountain
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Why does Stone Mountain come up over and over again for me when I talk about racism, oppression, and white privilege? And why does it cause such a visceral reaction among my fellow white southerners when I talk about it?
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