Nathan Bedford Forrest Wins A Rare Victory Over Cancel Culture. Here's Why That's A Good Thing

Townhall.com ^ | June 23, 2020 | Scott Morefield

[rockrr]

The answer is, well, it’s complicated - but probably not.

Hasn't that proven to be the case with most history?

[Bshaw]

Nathan Forrest history ping!

[nathanbedford]

Thank you very much.

[wardaddy]

Call our resident civic nationalists white hating south hating contingent so they can scold us as racists

They are too busy licking black boots somewhere I guess

[wardaddy]

Tks got it

Nice links on the freepmail

[FLT-bird]

There is no evidence he was ever even in the KKK. He denied it and said they had used his name as a recruiting tool. He testified before a Northern dominated Congress which investigated both Ft. Pillow and the KKK. They declined to charge him with anything.

[FLT-bird]

Another interesting tidbit about Forrest. He enlisted 42 slaves to serve in his Cavalry unit. He equipped them with horses and guns and promised to emancipate them at war’s end. 41 of those 42 stuck with him throughout the war. Obviously, with horses and guns they could have left practically any time.

He took leave from his unit to go file the papers and emancipate them all during the war. When asked why he did so, he answered that he was worried he would be killed and wanted to make sure he kept his word to them. Seriously, read his congressional testimony. Its fascinating.

http://www.flatfenders.com/scv/Forrest%20Defense.htm

He must have been a very charismatic man to rise from abject poverty to wealth....from private to general....to have a whole troop of slaves show such loyalty to him - and he to them.

[central_va]

There was no KKK. It's lie and a myth used to control white guilt.

For that matter slavery never happened. That is a huge lie.

[Mr Rogers]

FWIW, I am NOT a “Lost Causer” but I admire Nathan Bedford Forrest. He struck me as an uncommonly honest man. He was a product of his times but, by the end, was supporting freedom, voting and employment by blacks. He also became a Christian shortly before his death.

One of his horses, however, continued to bite anyone wearing blue for years after the war....

;>)

ALL men are imperfect. We need to learn to admire the good and rejoice that an imperfect man may still be a good one! If we cannot admire the good in men with some bad, we can never challenge ourselves to rise above OUR faults and aspire to be better!