A call for Outkast to join the Confederate faces on Stone Mountain - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
By no means do we wish to erase or destroy the current carving, which, regardless of its context, is an impressive and historic work of art. We simply wish to add new carvings, of Atlanta hip-hop duo Outkast, to the mountainside. I believe that Daddy Fat Sacks and Three Stacks should be carved riding in a Cadillac (as is their wont). This will help the new carving blend nicely with the Confederates who are on horseback. Then we have longtime lobbyist and amateur historian Neill Herring, who reminds us there actually was a successful effort to erase work on the giant memorial. He says it was done by the mountain’s first artist, Gutzon Borglum , who started the carvings before simmering tensions with his financial backers led him to bolt. He got in a fight with the Memorial Association and actually did blast his work off the face of the mountain. The second version, the one that is there now, finished in my boyhood, was actually started by another sculptor named Augustus Lukeman , and he was working on it when the money ran out, WWII intervened. I remember visiting Stone Mountain before they started back to work, and you could climb a giant pile of rubble from the Borglum and Lukeman work, the waste pile, and get fairly high. Source: politics.blog.ajc.com
