REWRITE HISTORY: Rename Civil War parks? It's time, says Bailey (MEMPHIS)

The Commercial Appeal ^ | 11/17/02 | Blake Fontenay

[GailA]

There is a poll with this on Poll

[07055]

Maybe they can rename one park for John Muhammed and the other for John Malvo?

[Alouette]

an era many Memphians would rather forget.

They got their butts whipped and were living under occupation. Yet, amazingly, no one blew themselves up aboard crowded steamboats or drove hijacked stagecoaches into buildings.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Maybe they can rename one park for John Muhammed and the other for John Malvo?

Well, it would be a long shot, but...

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Think about this for a moment. This controversy stems from a fighter's manager driving through Memphis and deciding the historic name of a park was "unbecoming." Having two idiots get paid millions to beat each other's brains out is pretty low-class to me. A better solution is to keep the riff raff of boxing out of Memphis.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe they can rename one park for John Muhammed and the other for John Malvo?

Perfect symbols for the NEW Memphis to show to the world.

[BenLurkin]

Ping.
Has the world gone insane?

[CPOSharky]

"These monuments are offensive to some people."

This guy is probably offensive to a whole lot of people.

[07055]

I found this article ironic because I just visited Forrest Park yesterday.

Do these nitwits realize that Forrest and his wife are buried there?

So, do they propose that their bodies be disinterred from their graves?

I suppose they could have a big party where they descrate the bones as part of the renaming ceremony? Maybe that would make them feel better?

[Arkinsaw]

Yet, amazingly, no one blew themselves up aboard crowded steamboats

Actually there was a steamboat that blew up, but not intentionally. The "Sultana" was overloaded carrying former Union prisoners of war back north when a flawed steam drum exploded. America's worst maritime tragedy.

The people of Memphis, within days of the end of the war, basically adopted the Federal troops who survived and took care of them. There is a monument to the "Sultana" in Memphis also.

[Godebert]

"Changes would be consistent with our efforts to become a world-class city," Bailey said. "These monuments are offensive to some people."

Those people would be the scalawags, NAACP and yankee socialist transplants.

[groanup]

I'm sick and tired of northern revisionist and their ilk objecting to Confederate symbols in some sort of holier-than-though mind game of political correctness. Sweep around your own front door before you call your neighbors messy:

"The North, it seems, have no more objections to slavery than the South have..." John Stuart Mill, 1861.

"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." Charles Dickens, 1862.

[Non-Sequitur]

I highly doubt that either Lennox Lewis or Mike Tyson had any idea who Jefferson Davis was, much less who Nathan Forrest was.

[contessa machiaveli]

"has the world gone insane"? ummm, yes.

[07055]

I agree.

But Lewis at least has the excuse that he's British. ;-)

Not that many Americans know who Oliver Cromwell was either.

[vetvetdoug]

Forrest Park is also in honor of General N.B. Forrest's great grandson, the first General killed leading his troops during WWII. General NB Forrest III was shot down by German fighters on a raid over Wilhavshaven (sp). General Forrest III believed as did his great grandfather, that leaders lead their men into battle.

[Destro]

Being honorable Christian Southern Gentlemen , how could they?

[bassmaner]

Those people would be the scalawags, NAACP and yankee socialist transplants.

Ahh, renaming of landmarks for political reasons ... where's that been done before? Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Stalingrad (Tsaritsyn) anyone?

Another small step in the march towards Soviet America.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Well, you know the political sensibilities of the 'rename-it' crowd and you also know that they pioneered a new form of political rally by dancing on the dead at Wellstone's send-off. You may not be too far off the beam with your suspicions.

For those whose world views hold no absolutes or concepts of sacredness, anything is fair game for political gain.

In fact, going further and proposing that the left begin disintering bodies of patriots and icons of conservatism and trafficking in the bones as fetishes and talismans for their political medicine bags may not be too far off either.

Prediction: An article will surface in the not too distant future regarding the Dems use of witchcraft/mysticism to advance their ideology or cripple that of conservatives. I have little doubt that such a thing will occur (and may be going on at the resent).

The barbarians walk among us.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Those who are victors generally rename those monuments, both natural and man made, raised by the conquered people.