sure it is. sure they are.
Posted on 07/24/2015 3:45:01 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Some people are calling a religious group vandals and claim they broke the law when they dug up a patch of grass next to a Confederate general’s grave in a Memphis park Wednesday.
Thursday, a man drove hundreds of miles to plant new grass.
“When I saw this last night, my wife couldn’t understand why I was shaking so badly,” Scott Hudson of Lincoln County, Tennessee, said.
He watched WREG’s story on a group who dug up a patch of grass next to Nathan Bedford Forrest’s statue and grave.
The group called the move symbolic, and said they’re standing up to racism while taking the first steps to remove Forrest’s statue and remains from Health Sciences Park.
“I’m going to repair the blatant disregard for this cemetery,” Hudson said.
He was so outraged that he cut a piece of his own lawn, drove five hours and laid the patch down.
“It just upset me to my core, because my great-grandfather R.C. Hudson fought in the Confederate Army,” he said.
Isaac Richmond, who organized the digging demonstration, said Hudson not only wasted gas, but also his time.
“It’s not necessary. I think they are trying to symbolize that we are a bunch of vandals,” he said.
Memphis Police has yet to say whether any laws were broken Wednesday.
Hudson isn’t waiting on police to form his own opinion.
“It was vandalism. There is no question about it,” he said. “It was vandalism, and it was illegal.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wreg.com ...
God bless him!!!
I have no love for the founder of the KKK. However, I understand history, and I understand ghoulishness.
If I lived in Memphis, I would be willing to stand guard, armed, and ready to shoot any ISIS/Taliban wannabes that would approach the grave.
This Orwellian crap is disgusting.
Leave the south alone! You don’t like living there? Come up to Chicago and Detroit - the weather is fine.
If socialists have no respect for the living, not even babies, why would anyone expect them to have respect for the dead? It is an old story, desecrating the things held sacred by those that don’t follow their ideology. Just moving closer to the day they hope they can outright murder non-socialists.
sure it is. sure they are.
God bless him. He is a hero and a man in the face of these iconoclastic racists.
We are not just talking about a Statue, this is the Grave site of Gen. Forrest and his wife. This was grave desecration besides vandalism.
In order to remove the graves they have to have permission from the General’s family to move the graves. Or if the family refuses they have to go to Chancery Court. And from the State to Move the Statue. LAW signed by Bill Haslam (RINO), 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
Look I’m from Tennessee....
we are proud of our Southern heritage.....
From my early childhood I’ve heard some stories about the Klan.....
I believe their actual organization began after the Civil War to help displaced families ......
The South was on its knees......Homes and crops burned out.....our soldiers returning home to ...nothing.....Families starving
I’m not excusing them for any crimes......
But even Wikipedia admitted that Forrest might not have been as involved as revisionists say
NO ONE has any right to disturb our statues.....Our museums.....Our graves......Our history
We’re from Lincoln County, TN. Husband was born there. We both have great-great grandfathers who were Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. (My great-great grandfather fought at Shiloh; I grew up with my parents taking me to Shiloh when I was a child over 60 yrs. ago. Back then, the “Bloody Pond” was a lot darker with bloodstain than it is now. Time & weather have decreased the stain.) I cannot fathom the hatred that moves people to want to dig up a dead man and gloat over him. Macabre.
These vandals are not out to "fight racism". This is part of an ongoing campaign to try to make whites feel guilty about the entire narrative of southern heritage. The end game usually ends up being a demand for reparations and affirmative action (with no timeline or limits). The trickle-down effects of this racial hate-mongering are black-youth attacks on innocent whites, entire generations of institutionalized racism and more white flight from cities such as Memphis, reinforcing the spiraling cycle of higher taxes, a reduced tax base, and deteriorating infrastructure.
Memphis is Detroit, in slow motion. It could turn into Baltimore, with the right spark (such as a police shooting).
All the recent racially motivated attacks in Memphis have been black-on-white. Colin Flaherty has documented this at WND.com. Most of the overall crime in Memphis is black-on-black, often gang-related (Crips, Bloods, Gangster Disciples, and MS-13). Illegal aliens are often victims of this violence, too, because they work for cash and are therefore targets for robberies, break-ins, carjackings and home invasions. They are safer targets since they are less likely to report crimes. But like other cities, there have been a rash of mob-violence attacks at malls, a Kroger parking lot, and in theater parking lots in Memphis.
Monument inscription: "Those hoof beats die not upon fame's crimson sod, But will ring through her song and her story; He fought like a Titan and struck like a god, And his dust is our ashes of glory." (Written by Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle)
From 2013: monument vandalized http://wreg.com/2013/09/13/nathan-bedford-forrest-statute-vandalized/
This is a beautiful statue.
You can sort of compare this to other iconoclastic movements in history: mass destruction of pagan buildings art and documents by Christian radicals; Ahkenaton’s destruction of non Atenist buildings and art work; iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire; Henry VIII’s destruction of manuscripts, buildings and artwork; similar actions by the Puritans under Cromwell; the destruction of artworks by the communists in the Commune Revolt in Paris; desecration of Christian graves and places of worship by the atheist French revolutionaries.
There is a mindless, vile tendency in some people to revel in these kinds of acts of destruction, and other individuals who elect to employ them to foster a political agenda.
I am a northerner, but as soon as I saw that idiot Nikki Haley cave to these fanatics in South Carolina, I knew it was just the start. Just recently a DemocRat group in Connecticut dropped Jefferson and Jackson from the name of one their historic events in response to pressure from Black Racists.
We have to stand up to these politically correct idiots or they will totally wreck our heritage and sense of identity as a nation and people, further Balkanizing America and setting us up for collapse which is their real goal.
No good is going to come from this jihad against the Confderate flag.
I would like to see this one moved to NBF State Park, about 120 miles from Memphis. Of course that would make the park itself a target of opportunity too.
Moving the two graves to Elmwood Cemetery is not the best idea. It was his original burial place, and where he wanted to be put to rest, but as we saw with Elvis' grave it isn't safe there (Elvis was originally there but after a grave-robbing near miss he was moved to Graceland). Elmwood is in downtown Memphis only a mile or so from the current NBF gravesite.
Here’s a good tidbit on the rest of the Forrest story.
General Nathan Bedford Forrest, upon his remarkable conversion to Christianity after his Klan leadership days, addressing a black citizens’ group in Memphis in the 1870s: “I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to elevate every man, to depress none. I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going. I came to meet you as friends.... When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together.”
“It’s not necessary. I think they are trying to symbolize that we are a bunch of vandals,” he said.
Guess what. You are.
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Interesting article on NBF - comments are interesting too:
http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/08/06/nathan-bedford-forrest-and-racial-reconciliation/
Then you might be interested to know that NBF renounced the KKK after it was hijacked by racists. And in fact in his later years he became a patron of poor blacks in Memphis.
Forrest's speech to the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association July 5, 1875.
Introduction: "A convention and BBQ was held by the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association at the fairgrounds of Memphis, five miles east of the city. An invitation to speak was conveyed to General Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the city's most prominent citizens, and one of the foremost cavalry commanders in the late War Between the States. This was the first invitation granted to a white man to speak at this gathering. The invitation's purpose, one of the leaders said, was to extend peace, joy, and union, and following a brief welcoming address a Miss Lou Lewis, daughter of an officer of the Pole-Bearers, brought forward flowers and assurances that she conveyed them as a token of good will. After Miss Lewis handed him the flowers, General Forrest responded with a short speech that, in the contemporary pages of the Memphis Appeal, evinces Forrest's racial open-mindedness that seemed to have been growing in him."
Ladies and Gentlemen I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. ( Immense applause and laughter.) I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to elevate every man to depress none. (Applause.) I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going. I have not said anything about politics today. I don't propose to say anything about politics. You have a right to elect whom you please; vote for the man you think best, and I think, when that is done, you and I are freemen. Do as you consider right and honest in electing men for office. I did not come here to make you a long speech, although invited to do so by you. I am not much of a speaker, and my business prevented me from preparing myself. I came to meet you as friends, and welcome you to the white people. I want you to come nearer to us. When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. Go to work, be industrious, live honestly and act truly, and when you are oppressed I'll come to your relief. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for this opportunity you have afforded me to be with you, and to assure you that I am with you in heart and in hand. (Prolonged applause.)
"Whereupon N. B. Forrest again thanked Miss Lewis for the bouquet and then gave her a kiss on the cheek. Such a kiss was unheard of in the society of those days, in 1875, but it showed a token of respect and friendship between the general and the black community and did much to promote harmony among the citizens of Memphis."
http://www.tennessee-scv.org/ForrestHistSociety/forrest_speech.html
I repeat my question from yesterday of the same subject: If they’re forcing us to dig up dead Klan leaders when are we digging up Senator Byrd?
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