People should listen to me because I'm blond, and I sing and, well, stuff.
Posted on 06/13/2020 2:08:10 AM PDT by knighthawk
Pop star Taylor Swift went on a ten tweet rant Friday demanding her fellow Tennesseans help “retroactively change the status of people who perpetuated hideous patterns of racism from ‘heroes’ to ‘villains'” by removing statues of Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest, two pro-slavery figures whom Swift failed to identify as Democrats.
“As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things,” Swift’s rant began. “Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such.”
“Edward Carmack’s statue was sitting in the state Capitol until it was torn down last week in the protests. The state of Tennessee has vowed to replace it,” the Grammy-winner continued. “FYI, he was a white supremacist newspaper editor who published pro-lynching editorials and incited the arson of the office of Ida B. Wells (who actually deserves a hero’s statue for her pioneering work in journalism and civil rights).”
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Another super-rich socialist.
She needs to redistribute her wealth if she wants to be taken seriously.
“...Ida B. Wells (who actually deserves a hero’s statue for her pioneering work in journalism and civil rights).””
Republican.
Things change. Some day, listening to Swift’s singing may be considered an ‘evil thing’, if it isn’t already.
I’m not sure this is an either or proposition.
Most people are mostly reflective of their time and place, even - if in some way - they were exemplary. That, the flawed creatures that we are, have made the progress is what these statues as a group represent.
Taylor Swift, you should get out of Tennessee right now. You can’t stand the state. Climb aboard your Gulfstream jet and leave. Many there will cheer your departure, you spoiled brat.
People should listen to me because I'm blond, and I sing and, well, stuff.
As a Tennessean??? Is she actually a Tennessean???
And furthermore, is she trying to become a staff member for the Babylon Bee???
I still wouldn’t take her seriously.
“retroactively change the status of people who perpetuated hideous patterns of racism from ‘heroes’ to ‘villains’”
What will Hillary Clinton say of the already slated for removal statue from Arkansas on Nancy Pelosi’s list?
Uriah Milton Rose was the founder of the Rose Law Firm.
This collective guilt thing is getting a little old.
Taylor is not so swift. Boring, cookie-cutter product of the music industry.
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My question is is when will people in these locales set up grassroots efforts to protect these monuments and statues from greedy, out of town celebrities and Democrats?
Has Al Gore come out against his old man yet when he was a segregationist Senator from Tennessee voting a straight segregationist line?
She should stick to something she is good at, porn!
Never said swift was swift
Wow, I don’t know what we’d do without the dynamic moral leadership of Taylor Swift.
The rioters are heading to TN, Nashville may not last the weekend.
“Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such.”
Yes, those statues have had a depressing effect on our GDP, our foreign policy, our space effort, her record sales, etc. All of which reveals just a little of the power of their influence, seeing that 95% of the population has never heard of them. Edward Carmack???? Despicable???? The idiot had to do a lot of searching to come up with that one to get exercised over it.
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