Posted on 06/25/2015 8:57:13 PM PDT by middlegeorgian
10:30 p.m.
The mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, says he thinks a statue of Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest should be removed from its location at a city park.
In a statement emailed to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Mayor A C Wharton Jr. said he would like to see the statue removed from Health Sciences Park. Wharton said the graves of Forrest and his wife, also located at the park, should be relocated as well.
Health Sciences Park was called Forrest Park until the City Council voted in February 2013 to change the name. It also changed the name of Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park.
It was not immediately clear if the City Council would consider moving the statue.
Lawmakers have already called for the removal of a bust of Forrest from an alcove in the state Senate chambers.
The suspect in last week's shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, was seen in photos brandishing the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of hate.
I keep hoping that where these events [Flag and monument removal] happens that the people will say no. But, to date, I have only seen one picture of a person defending the monument, and he was a Black Man. /p>
The Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2013 will not allow this... It was passed within a few weeks of their renaming of the park.
The notion that the GOP has forgotten about its roots is simply not true.
As for how "conservative" the South really is, one only has to study maps of past Presidential elections to put that old canard to rest...from overwhelming 90% support of all three terms of FDR to more tacit support of Carter, Clinton, and yes Obama.
Low hanging fruit...my patooty!
Now if someone wants to hang their political hat on old segregationists like John Stennis that's their right...but let's not pretend one of the Democrats who voted against the nomination of Robert Bork to the USSC was some kind of conservative icon.
Cheers -Mac
I contend all this discussion of whether the Jim Crow South was conservative or not is due to a misuse of the term.
The South was indisputably conservative on all social issues not involving race. They were, like most Americans, in favor of FDR during the Depression, on the possibly mistaken theory that it would be to their benefit. How people vote in such extreme circumstances says little about their basic belief system.
On race issues they were also conservative, or more accurately reactionary.
Their conservatism harked back to before the American Revolution, to a period where born aristocrats lorded it over the serfs by the Grace of God. That is of course the antithesis of American conservatism, is indeed to a considerable extent what the Founders revolted against (or thought they were). It is, however, what the original Right in the French Revolution were for, though the aristos of 1789 would not have recognized most southerners as their ideological kin. :)
I simply refuse to allow the democrats to divide north and south again.
The GOP is making major inroads in the north (primarily midwest) and the democrats are trying to squeeze into the south for wins.
Maybe we need that division. Just because some will be caught on the wrong side doesn't mean it isn't necessary.
By the time Roosevelt was running for an unprecedented third term you’d think the “conservatives” in the south would have eased up on their support for his progressive policies.
They didn’t.
Insane. Yes.
Surprising. No.
The Thrill is gone.
and so is the South..
and this nation.
Your scum brethren keeping a low profile nowadays boy
Maybe you didn’t get the memo
I don’t need a memo to stomp on your grapes sonny...just an invitation.
Your scum brethren keeping a low profile nowadays boy???
We've been ignoring you and your ilk that just troll and cast lies. Why I even bother with even writing this is for the benefit of the lurkers.
Go write with your brethren on some lib rag, like HP (even that place may be too intelligent for you though)!
Be sure the south hating rabble here get notice so they can sign on
I think that you're overreacting, wardaddy.
All I did was add a "(Dem.)" after Nathan Bedford Forrest's name.
This is a meme here at Free Republic - adding the "(Dem.)" after the name of someone reviled by the Left, to remind everyone just how many historical figures which the Left today reviles were, in actual fact, members of their beloved Democratic Party.
Of course, you are right that the Democratic and Republican Parties of the 19th Century have little resemblance to their modern namesakes.
Your rant was a little much - although I suppose that we all need to let a little steam off once in a while.
Regards,
My rants are always a little much ....even my allies probably think So..lol....my wife sure does
I’m like Belushi in Animal House when in front of Dean Wormer Otter notes “he’s rolling” as Belushi gives his speech/rant
I appreciate your politeness.....
God bless
In light of the SCOTUS decision, it’s so nice to see necrophiliacs come out of the shadows /s
Thank you for this answer. I went and read your article on General Forrest. Truly, there is a reason history is being rewritten. The irony of a black mayor advocating disinterment of the man who called for the abolition of the KKK is astounding.
Well, he's an astounding bastard.
>Well, he’s an astounding bastard.<
That he is.
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