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Posted on 07/13/2015 11:01:35 AM PDT by mojito
Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery, Fusion reports. According to the report, the City Council also voted to move his wife’s body from the park and to take down the statue of Forrest sitting on a horse that currently stands in the park.
The action is just one of the more recent moves of city and state leaders pushing for the removal of Confederate symbols. On Thursday the South Carolina Legislature officially passed a bill to remove its controversial Confederate battle flag from Statehouse grounds altogether.
Disapproval of the battle flag and other Confederate symbols has spiked in recent weeks since the horrific massacre in Charleston, S.C., at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine people, including South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, dead. The suspect arrested in those murders, Dylann Roof, was seen across social media and in the news posing with the flag.
“Nathan Bedford Forrest is a symbol of bigotry and racism, and those symbols have no place on public property,” council Chairman Myron Lowery told Fusion. “What we’re doing here in Memphis is no different from what’s happening across the country.”
Forrest was a Memphis native who made his wealth in the slave trade and gained name recognition as a general for the Confederate Army. He later became the KKK’s first Grand Wizard in 1868 but eventually withdrew from the notorious hate group.
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If he goes anywhere it should be a military cemetery with full honors as the law declares he is entitled to.
They forgot philanthropist, and Black rights activist in the title for some reason.
I’ve been watching for the Robert Byrd signs to come down..
Thus far, they remain up.
I am no fan of NBF, but this is just wrong. The man is dead. Leave him and his family in peace.
I guess whites can’t even Rest in Peace anymore.
Doesn’t an exhuming usually have to go through a court and a judge give permission ???
even for suspected crime ???
Makes me wonder where Byrd is buried. And if they will exhume his body and bury elsewhere, so as not to taint the graveyard with KKK presence.......
Democrats digging up dead democrats to clean up their own race guilt and republicans trying to stop them from doing it instead of pointing it out to them.
Nothing More! Nothing Less!
“If he goes anywhere it should be a military cemetery with full honors as the law declares he is entitled to.”
I am appalled that southern history is being so decimated, it is what it is, but if they insist on this carnage, I vote he goes to a military cemetery, too.
You forgot Byrd’s statue in the Capitol Rotunda
I hope I live long enough to see the same happen to MLK.
In 1905 he and his wife were dug up from the cemetery where they wanted to be buried and moved to the memorial in that park, and essentially put onto public display.
The pretext here is stupid, but apparently the couple’s remains will be returned to where they really wanted to be. So I’m ok with it. And as an added benefit the stupid taxpayers in Memphis get to pay for it.
I really don’t think that would be a good idea.
Ping
That is nothing short of ghoulish, not to mention insane.
Maybe while they are at it, maybe they could dig up Elvis’ grave and put an end to the speculation of whether or not he is still alive? This would be serving humanity just as much as digging up Forrest’s grave.
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