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 citys Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery, Fusion reports. According to the report, the City Council also voted to move his wifes 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 were doing here in Memphis is no different from whats 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 KKKs first Grand Wizard in 1868 but eventually withdrew from the notorious hate group.
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My thoughts, depicted perfectly!
When are the demoncrats gonna dig up their favorites heros.
Google “robert byrd kkk” and see his pics as a kkk grand poohbah.
Yes, will anti-white racists ever be dug up and moved to some less honorable cemetery somewhere, their monuments and statues taken down?
I think we all know the answer to that.
...and Forrest Gump was banned next.
These are major moves that should be blocked by hundreds of thousands of bodies
Thanks for the laugh!
What about Robert Byrd’s crap in West Virginia?
I truly, truly hope and pray these people will be forever accursed and pay a thousandfold in this life and the next for their disgusting and wicked acts against the defenseless legacy and memory of the deceased. I personally condone and fully support any reasonable act of vengeance in this regard.
Amish uproar in Memphis for centuries of their slovenly habits and incompetence at all levels
I was reading a blog that mentioned that they took down a stained glass window that had Confederate symbolism on it at the Washington Cathedral. Do you know that the remains of that well known racist, segregationist president Woodrow Wilson is entombed at the cathedral? Hmm. Think they will do something about that? Think Princeton will change the name of its well known school of international affairs bearing his name? I’m sure there are a bunch of lefty grad students who are condemning the Confederate flag but are studying in Europe under Fulbright Scholarships, which bear the name of the well known US senator and arch-segregationist J. William Fulbright and mentor of Bill Clinton. Think they’ll change the name and will those students give back their scholarships? When it comes to racism the Democrats have a long and sordid history on it. What’s going on now is their attempt to hide it, revise the historical narrative, and blame the GOP for racism today.
Do we have some TN FR’pers that can rally support and stand around it and to block the removal of the statue?
Egyptians kept slaves, too -— so when are they going to start knocking down their pyramids and monuments??? Oh wait, that’s ISIS -— or is it???
This is insane. Isn’t there a law against this? If not, there is certainly a long history and tradition of having respect for those who are at rest. This is gruesome and disrespectful.
This is depraved. They keep referring to “symbols.” A body is not a symbol. This will not end well.
Arrant ignorance.
> So ... ISIS comes to town, eh ?
These are major moves that should be blocked by hundreds of thousands of bodies
This is an ANTI-American move to remove our landmarks, ISIS style using a faux excuse to do the job. It has absolutely nothing to do with the deaths of the black church members. This is liberal progressives doing what they do to destroy the nation one brick at a time.
Why not put his remains on public display, such as was done to the remains of Oliver Cromwell when James II came back into power in 1660?
I’m not a confederate-phile, but every natural instinct tells me this is a vile act. And intended to be so.
Myron Lowery. Surprised?
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