You are disputing the historic record. Forrest did not originate the idea. Even if he attended the first meeting, it simply wasn't his idea. He never claimed to have originated it. Another man is always identified as the originator.
A distinction without any substantive difference. So he's one of the six founding members and the first leader of the KKK. Sheesh!
Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, but Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao were the ones who used the ideas to butcher millions. So Marx gets a pass, is that it? Unbelieveable.
Forrest was a butcher, the ugliest sort of racist, a liar who denied his involvement with the Klan before Congress, and a 19th century terrorist. Admire him if you want, but stop trying to convince me that he's pure as the driven snow.