Posted on 07/23/2015 4:08:17 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A group was fed up with waiting, so they got a shovel and dug up a patch of grass next to Nathan Bedford Forrests grave and statue in a public park in the Medical District.
The group says they wanted the statue and remains removed for a long time, because he was a Confederate soldier, a KKK leader and a slave trader.
If hes gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone, said Isaac Richmond with Commission on Religion and Racism. We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up.
They can protest all they want. Just because they dont like it, doesnt mean they are right. Digging up the park is just pure and simple vandalism, said Lee Millar, the spokesperson for the Forrest family and Sons of Confederate Veterans.
He said every person who held onto that shovel broke the law today.
Thats plain vandalism, he said.
We really dont want to make this a confrontation. We just want to say hey, we want to get on with it! said Richmond.
The City Council agreed to move the statue and the remains.
Now state law requires the Tennessee Historical Commission to sign off.
The issue will have to go before the Chancery Court as well.
The group told WREG if the process took too long, the could take more drastic measures.
We are going to bring the back hoe, the tractors and the men with the equipment to raise Bedford Forrest from the soil of Memphis, said Richmond.
(Excerpt) Read more at wreg.com ...
So we’re digging up dead klan leaders now? When are we digging up senator Byrd?
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I first thought he meant some of [their] “racism and race-hate would be gone”. Now I realize he’s saying [our] “racism and race-hate would be gone”.
Amazing paradigm.
Once they’ve ridden the world of the historical/cultural memes they don’t like, what do you think is next on their list?
When they run out of dead white people to take a shove to, that just leaves the live ones.
...and DEMOCRAT.
When will the race pimps begin renaming and tearing down everything in W. Virginia named after Sen. Grand Kleagle Bird?
He said hatefully. Oh the irony.
Like hell. They live for confrontation.
I'm sure he sincerely believes that, too.
I’m 100 percent anti-confederacy. I think it was an evil movement to its core. I don’t think the confederate flag, battle or otherwise, should fly over any government building in this country.
That being said, people need to chill out with the defacement of monuments. It’s ISIS-esque.
How 'bout your racism, Isaac. It'll take more than just a shovel to dig the racism out of your heart ...
When the US Constitution was ratified slavery was legal, even codified. So was the USA, in its nascent form, also evil in your opinion?
What the zombies don’t seem to grasp is that the more they attack us and our history the more we will believe that the confederates were correct
“When the US Constitution was ratified slavery was legal, even codified. So was the USA, in its nascent form, also evil in your opinion”
To varying degrees, the early republic was morally problematic. There is a big difference between that, however, and between a political ideology whose sole function is not only the preservation of enslavement of the black race, but the expansion of slavery as far and wide as possible. Yes, the confederacy—as a political movement and as a guiding ideology—was evil. I would expand on this to say its architects and its leaders were also evil.
If hes gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone, said Isaac Richmond with Commission on Religion and Racism. ..
Don’t bet the EBT card on it, Isaac.
isaac is such a fool. Did he participate in the cultural revolution in china some time ago? ...and he’s on some worthless commission.
In fact, didn't I read that there were a significant number of Blacks that attended his funeral/memorial service?
Ok you are a new to Free Republic, tell me what is your position on the repeal of DADT back in 2010? Were you in favor of it or against? Are openly gay persons serving in the US military a good thing.
Commission on Religion and Racism?
I’m going to start one called
“WHY MUST MY WHITE WIFE OR DAUGHTERS BE GANGED RAPED AND/OR MURDERED IF THEIR CAR RUNS OUT OF GAS IN BLACK PARTS OF TOWN?”
a long title but gets the point across
If digging up Bedford will stop that then I’ll pay for the disinterment and they can bury him and poor Mrs Forrest in my back pasture where their remains will be honored by
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