This whole thing seems like a media/NAACP stunt to produce the desired headline - “Barbour Won’t Denounce Confederate License Plate”. What else won’t he denounce? Cigarettes? Cancer? Bedbugs? What a heartless guy!
The idea of a plate honoring N.B. Forrest seems like a provocation in its own right, though.
Gee, I wonder what N.B. Forrest and the “conscience” of the Senate, Bobbie Sheets Byrd, had in common? What a bunch of filthy hypocrites!
Only one of the better cavalry generals to ever serve on American soil.
Read about NBF’s accomplishments as a General. He was an amazing man. If he had wore a blue uniform, we would have a holiday named after him.
He killed a young man in a sabre fight, the young man badly injured him. They lay next to each other in the hospital.
The young man was alone and dying. Forrest reached out and held his hand until he died. Forrest was an amazing man.
“This whole thing seems like a media/NAACP stunt to produce the desired headline...”
That is EXACTLY what it is.