Memphis City Council Votes to Dig Up Grave of Confederate General, Sell His Statue

Breitbart ^ | July 11, 2015 | By AWR Hawkins

[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. . .

[DaveA37]

“I want to know what the difference between these idiots and the g-damn Taliban are.

They try to erase history that offends them.”..........

Damn, you beat me to it. I sure as hell would like to erase the current leadership so we can avoid even more bad history. Guess that puts me in the “offended” category then. Sorry!

[DoodleDawg]

Forrest was a businessman who become wealthy in the cotton trade prior to the Civil War

Slave trade.

[DaveA37]

“.........according to the article it has to do with the University of Kentucky wanting the land.”.....

Last time I heard, Memphis was in Tennessee, why would U of Kentucky want such land?

[DoodleDawg]

But city council member Janis Fullilove asked if the move has something to do with a rumored “$500 million [University of Tennessee] expansion” that would use the land where Forrest is currently buried.

Could there be a reason for their faux-rage?

[Carry me back]

Its going to backfire on them. It already is.

[kearnyirish2]

Patton may have used blacks as combat troops in desperation, but the military wasn’t desegregated until the Korean War. In his own words (”War As I knew It”?) Patton stated that blacks couldn’t think fast enough to be used in armored units.

WWII will be minimized because blacks played no leading roles; one feel-good movie made around the time of (and probably in response to) the Crown Heights riot in the early 1990s showed black troops liberating a concentration camp - but it was fiction. The white troops who had actually done that were very vocal about it at the time; their accomplishment had been revised for political correctness.

[Lion Den Dan]

University of KY???? Memphis is in TN.

[raybbr]

I see you’re about to move.... :)

[bert]

Memphis is no longer Tennessee

Memphis is Massachusetts

[Vaduz]

Memphis City Council must be snorting the voodoo dust again.

[GailA]

First the racist of Memphis have to get family permission to move the graves, they can go to Chancery Court. IF the family refuses. Which knowing TWICE convicted criminal Myron Lowery that is the route they will go as they know the family will say HELL NO.

Then they have to get past this LAW signed by Bill Haslam, Effective as of April 1, 2013
called the “Tennessee Heritage Protection Act”
NO military memorials can be removed
including those from the ‘War Between the States’ !
http://www.tn.gov/sos/acts/108/pub/pc0075.pdf

Then they have to get past the National Historical Registry, as the statute is on their list.

[Knygt Erraunt]

Boycotting Memphis in saecula saeculorum, and advise all right-thinking (right, as in proper) thinking people to do the same.

“Dakotas, I am for war.” —Chief Red Cloud, 1866

[central_va]

Put the statue on eBay or simply offer at a city junk auction. Might help pay from something in the city.

Hey if it isn't the head of the Free Republic American Taliban checking in.

[GailA]

If you want a Confederate Flag, Alabama Flag and Banner Co. Look under the Historical selection. US MADE, US Jobs.

http://alabamaflag.com/

[matginzac]

Yep...
We’d give to anyone who would buy a chunk of land for NBF and wife and statue....screw the “establishment”.

[matginzac]

I believe Memphis has been “taken over” recently....

[central_va]

I have always thought it odd how blacks somehow feel that they have some sort of copyright on the US Civil War, when the whole slave issue was really just a side note on what was really a trade/economic war. News flash, it really wasn’t all about them.

Worth repeating.

[central_va]

Hey another member of the Free Republic Taliban Army checking in. You burn a CBF last night? What’s up hun?

[central_va]

The USA went to the moon, but it was a “white thing” so I doubt the history of the space program is even taught. If it is it probably give the credit to German scientists.

[central_va]

Memphis City Council Votes to Dig Up Grave of Confederate General, Sell His Statue