Just read - no comments needed

[Gene C]

Just so there is no misunderstanding, for clarification purposes, Nathan Bedford Forrest image is not on Stone Mountain. And, Rsmyth never said he was.
Stone Mountain is the most visited destination in Georgia.

When the state of Georgia completed the purchase in 1960, it condemned the property to remove Venable's (previous owners) agreement to allow the Klan perpetual right to hold meetings on the premises.

Stone Mountain is much more than a confederate memorial.
https://www.stonemountainpark.com

There has been talk about building and actual plans for a memorial to Martin Luther King on Stone Mountain, but there has been some difficulty raising funds.

And this about Forrest from Wikipedia (consider the source)

"In the last years of his life, Forrest publicly denounced the violence and racism practiced by the Klan, insisted he had never been a member, and made repeated public speeches in favor of racial harmony.[22] As an effort of reconciliation, during a meeting with African Americans in 1875, Forrest took flowers from a black woman, something that was considered abhorrent in the South during Reconstruction. Although scholars admire Forrest as a military strategist, he has remained a highly controversial figure in Southern history, especially for his role in the attack on Fort Pillow, his 1867–1869 leadership of the Ku Klux Klan, and his political influence as a Tennessee delegate at the 1868 Democratic National Convention."

"After the lynch mob murder of four blacks, arrested for defending themselves at a barbecue, Forrest wrote to Tennessee Governor John C. Brown in August 1874 and "volunteered to help ‘exterminate’ those men responsible for the continued violence against the blacks", offering "to exterminate the white marauders who disgrace their race by this cowardly murder of Negroes"

"On July 5, 1875, Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from those of the Klan when he was invited to give a speech before the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association, a post-war organization of black Southerners advocating to improve the economic condition of blacks and to gain equal rights for all citizens. At this, his last public appearance, he made what The New York Times described as a "friendly speech"[172] during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a young black woman, he accepted them,[173] thanked her and kissed her on the cheek as a token of reconciliation between the races. Forrest ignored his critics and spoke in encouragement of black advancement and of endeavoring to be a proponent for espousing peace and harmony between black and white Americans going forward.[174]"

I'm not a fan of Forrest, but it appears from this on Wikipedia, that later in life, he had a change of heart.
The entire article on Forrest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest