Posted on 07/23/2015 4:08:17 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A group was fed up with waiting, so they got a shovel and dug up a patch of grass next to Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grave and statue in a public park in the Medical District.
The group says they wanted the statue and remains removed for a long time, because he was a Confederate soldier, a KKK leader and a slave trader.
“If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,” said Isaac Richmond with Commission on Religion and Racism. ” We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up.”
“They can protest all they want. Just because they don’t like it, doesn’t mean they are right. Digging up the park is just pure and simple vandalism,” said Lee Millar, the spokesperson for the Forrest family and Sons of Confederate Veterans.
He said every person who held onto that shovel broke the law today.
“That’s plain vandalism,” he said.
“We really don’t want to make this a confrontation. We just want to say hey, we want to get on with it!” said Richmond.
The City Council agreed to move the statue and the remains.
Now state law requires the Tennessee Historical Commission to sign off.
The issue will have to go before the Chancery Court as well.
The group told WREG if the process took too long, the could take more drastic measures.
“We are going to bring the back hoe, the tractors and the men with the equipment to raise Bedford Forrest from the soil of Memphis,” said Richmond.
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Shoot the Taliban/ISIS wannabes.
No. The race hatred will end when BASTARDS LIKE THIS are gone.
The people who want him there have as much rights as these ghouls do. Grave robbing is a crime and these bastards should be arrested.
How about fighting the criminals in their own neighborhoods today!
I wonder if the Etruscans had these kinds of dolts running around before they allowed themselves to be erased from history....
In related news: NASA offers to take the ashes of the former general into orbit to remove the source of all planetary racism and hate forevermore. ;-)
Arrest the scofflaws, lock them up.
Shoot them!
Wait until they start digging up MLK’s grave...
At least the Etruscans were homogeneous in the population.
We’ve been overseeded with weeds from other groups for so long that this is exactly what happens when you have minorities with irreconcilable differences living among the cultural majority.
- George Orwell, 1984
Orwell intended his novel as a warning, not a blueprint. Obama's minions seem to be settling on a compromise between 1984, Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, and The Communist Manifesto.
What an empty promise or veiled threat.
Note to morons: Racism and hate cannot exist in inanimate objects.
...or dead men
Well, we have MLK streets and avenues and boulevards that are precisely inanimate objects reflecting hate
Practicing now to include it into my vocabulary
Quite likely every people that mysteriously disappeared probably disappeared on the account of these types of idiots
Go ahead f#ckface, you’ll just be digging up more racial tension.
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