Posted on 07/29/2020 11:15:42 AM PDT by lowbridge
A state lawmaker in Alabama is being called on to resign for saying he had a “great time” honoring a Confederate Army general and former Ku Kluk Klan leader this weekend.
In a since-deleted post, Rep. Will Dismukes, R-Prattvile, said Sunday on Facebook that he enjoyed speaking at an event at Fort Dixie in Selma, where he gave an invocation for Nathan Bedford Forrest’s annual birthday celebration.
“Always a great time and some sure enough good eating!!” Dismukes wrote.
The post was quickly denounced by the chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party, who called it “totally insensitive,” the Montgomery Advertiser reports.
“It should not be where the state of Alabama is in 2020, where one of our elected officials in Alabama celebrates someone like that,” Rep. Christopher England, D-Tuscaloosa, said.
Democrats in the state also noted that Dismukes spent his weekend honoring Forrest rather than the late Rep. John Lewis, a “giant” of the Civil Rights movement.
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Byrd is the Wyrd
Will democrats who celebrated him resign?
Wasn’t Lewis your typical loud mouth angry black politician liberal that was partisan beyond all belief? You mean that “hero”?
Kluk klan?
Forrest actually advocated for voting and other rights for blacks later in his life and he caught some flak for that position. Forrest haters always seem to forget that part of his life.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was also the first confederate championing black civil rights. All these dumbasses know of history is tom hanks putting on a hood in Forrest Gump.
Absolutely. You can go on Nancy Pelosi’s own website and see a transcript of her eulogy honoring Robert Byrd.
The very idea that the speaker of the house could and did honor a KKK grand Kleagle is astonishing.
Don’t let the mob rule you.
Niw that song is stuck in my head, lol!
LOL Me too-
Chris Crock here in Dallas pointed out today that if the left wants to eliminate any and all things remotely associated with Racism, they MUST eliminate the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party was the party of slavery which opposed Lincoln’s freeing of the slaves. It was the party of the Jim Crow laws. It was the part of the KKK.
All signs of the democrat party and of course sheets byrd should be eradicated if they want to be the tiniest bit consistent.
cancel culture strikes again!
Cancel culture is winning. We the People are LOSING.
Cancel culture is winning. We the People are LOSING.
I resent the characterization of Nathan Bedford Forrest as “leader of the KKK.” Yes, he was one of the early leaders, a position he later resigned and said he greatly regretted. But first and foremost, he was a highly accomplished Confederate cavalry commander on a par with JEB Stuart. His Klan involvement defined one small portion of his life. His military prowess was legendary. Why focus on the former, not the latter?
I would not be at or associate myself with anything Klan, BUT if this guy wanted to, so be it. He shouldn’t resign. Let the voters decide.
PC is destroying our country.
Cancel culture is cancelling our culture.
Don’t “cancel” him, vote him out. Maybe you shouldn’t have voted him in.
Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood fame had an actual KKK leader working with her at PP to exterminate black america.... His name was LOTHROP STODDARD....He wrote a book called THE RISING TIDE OF COLOR while he worked at PP and in this book he states that blacks are so stupid,they will always need whites leading them......
And Forrest rebuked the Klan later in life.
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