Posted on 07/11/2015 10:17:23 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location.
The body of Forrest’s wife will be exhumed as well.
According to Local Memphis, the council voted to exhume Forrest’s remains from Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue. They plan to sell a statue of Forrest as well–they are thinking of “selling the statue to anyone who wants it.”
Forrest was a businessman who become wealthy in the cotton trade prior to the Civil War. He abandoned that to fight federal forces once the war commenced, eventually becoming a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army. He was known for waging brutal warfare against federal forces in Mississippi and Tennessee.
The Forrest family has made clear that they are “solidly opposed to digging up the graves and moving them any place.” They are opposed to moving the statue as well. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I want to know what the difference between these idiots and the g-damn Taliban are.
They try to erase history that offends them.
Ghouls. Are they going to drive stakes through their hearts, as well?
How long are we going to allow the certifiably insane to run this country?
Sanitized for your protection....
Sad.
Maybe a vote should be taken to dig up Memphis, sans Beale Street, and float it down the Mississippi to sink in the Caribbean
Perhaps it’s time for a little Dixie pushback.
Put the statue on eBay or simply offer at a city junk auction. Might help pay from something in the city.
This must have been a festering sore for the people of Memphis for a long time. Not sure what they will gain from this effort. Peace of mind? A sense of revenge? On thing for sure, this was not spawned by an act of love.
Well, this is getting kookier by the moment.
BUT...according to the article it has to do with the University of Kentucky wanting the land. Nothing to do with his service with the Confederacy. (Although that would be sad as well.)
What a sad place we have come to in our history.
I thought blacks were really superstitious. You just don’t go around digging up bodies.
Memphis is on my list of places I will not live. It has always given me the heebie-jeebies.
“He was known for waging brutal warfare against federal forces in Mississippi and Tennessee.”
If it wasn’t so sick, it would be funny.
Will #BlackLiesMatter hack their remains into pieces, defile them and throw them at white passerby? Or should I be giving them ideas?
The inexorable march towards CW II carries on.
Past time. Actually all of American history is now threatened by the Left. Just part of their late-inning drive to make the “First Black President” look somehow competent.
Tennessee
But still. They couldn’t build around it?
John Derbyshire, please pick up the courtesy phone.
Not that Abraham Lincoln was into polite warfare either...
Why not let it be.
Hate Week continues and fear not, idiot liberals, the chocolate ration is being increased as well.
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