Are they going to be banning the movie ‘Forrest Gump’ in the city as well?
The Forrest Gump Statue?
Stupid is as stupid does.
No Class
Grave desecrators.
No different than ISIS.
It should be made known that when Forrest’s remains are disturbed that all Black honoree monuments in Memphis will be destroyed by the Celtic Order of the Ryan.
Memphis = Detroit of the South.
Removing this monument won’t make it any less of a slum.
Along these same lines the House has voted to ban the sale of the Confederate flag from National Park gift stores. I can see gift shops going broke in Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chattanooga, Manassas etc. Does the madness end?
So maybe history didn’t happen? So maybe we should erase slavery out of the history books too...just didn’t happen.
Evil, disgusting, putrid worms.
I think 63% of the population of Memphis is black. Why in the hell would any white person want to live there?
Which brings me back to an earlier thought; if it's OK to purge MY history, why can't we purge Mexican flags and street names because of the tidal wave of deadly illegals that Obama and company want to welcome into the Estados Divisos?
Didn’t some millionaire try to take over the park a few years ago for a cancer memorial? I think the same dude took over a park in downtown Dallas. Richard Bloch of H&R Block? Quick Google suggests that it may have been 1999 when he and the city teamed up to try to do away with Forrest.
one good thing the city council is doing.
This monument wasn’t put up directly after the Civil War. By the time it was put up the KKK was a terrorist org murdering people in Memphis. It was honoring the KKK.
Confederate Robert E. Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee See the section "After the war."
2nd paragraph.
Lee's prewar family home, the Custis-Lee Mansion, was seized by Union forces during the war and turned into Arlington National Cemetery. The family was compensated in 1883.[105]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee#cite_note-105
[105] In December 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court returned the property to Lee's son because it had been confiscated without due process of law. In 1883, the government (United States) paid the Lee family $150,000. "Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial". Arlington National Cemetery.
See: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore-the-Cemetery/History/Arlington-House
See the section "George Washington Parke Custis"
8th paragraph.
Arlington National Cemetery was established by Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House, appropriated the grounds June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery. His intention was to render the house uninhabitable should the Lee family ever attempt to return. A stone and masonry burial vault in the rose garden, 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep, and containing the remains of 1,800 Bull Run casualties, was among the first monuments to Union dead erected under Meigs' orders. Meigs himself was later buried within 100 yards of Arlington House with his wife, father and son; the final statement to his original order.
And when this is done all the blacks will stop killing each other and committing violent crime in Memphis. I’m sure Chicago and Detroit are bastions of peace and harmony now that Dukes of Hazzard reruns are off the air.
Did you see this?