Ain’t nuthing wrong with the Confederate Flag, N.B. Forrest or the Confederacy! Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I do know Forrest was an organizer of the KKK that started out to be quiet benign. It was when it took a real wrong turn into a racist, abhorrent organization that Forrest got out. :)
From Wikipedia:
In 1875, Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation, called the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association. At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a “friendly speech” during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radically progressive (for the time) agenda of equality and harmony between black and white Americans.