One can respect a man for his strengths while not admiring him for every single aspect of his history.
And I for one would have no issue with his statue coming down.
Shut up Ted
Ted should stick with Canadian issues.
Ted....Antifa is far more dangerous than someone who has been dead for over 100 years.
Stop being a moron.
Hey Ted go after Robert Byrd next
Warts and all, I have more respect for Gen. Forrest than I have for the entire United States Congress as it currently exists.
More typical excellence from senator cruz.
bump
Ted is pandering for minority votes.
St. Ted of Canada speaks.
Ted again sending signals of friendship with democrat KkK members. He could have pointed that it is a democrat thing, but, he prefers, like in Chicago riots, blaming Trump or a GOP member instead of the democrats as the real insitgators.
Do these creeps ever do any real work??? He should stick his nose out of TN’s business and let them be free to do what they want. Let the citizens of that state decide who they want to honor.
Ted is still one of the most annoying guys on our side.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Democrat. We need to remind everyone of that fact.
Ted Cruz should have more important things to worry about.
He will be a 1 term gov, already making conservative base mad.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a great scholar and wise leader according to the conditions prevailing in his time. A careful study of his life will show this to be true.
I like Ted, but he is wrong on this one. He has not done his research. It is a knee-jerk reaction to a symbol - not a thoughtful response to the context and life of a man. The TN governor’s response is weak also.
He committed a class act when he told Jefferson Davis to hit the road at last when Davis tried to continue the war using guerilla rules.
I don't care this much whether we are white, black, red, brown, yellow or any combination. What I do care about is the effort in this country to erase our history because most of our predecessors were not perfect. Why does the United States have to be the only nation in history to have every link in the human chain be more perfect than Jesus, absent which, the United States should not exist?
I don't know that Nathan Bedford Forrest deserves a special day of honor. I might argue that Andrew Jackson should not be on that list. Maybe no one should be on that list.
Without these people and a million others of every ilk going back to 1492, the United States would not be the place today that everyone on earth from every nook and cranny wants to get to. For that matter, she would not be the place where the millions already here who hate this country won't leave.
There were many obstacles this nation had to overcome to make progress in the world. Instead of scrubbing the blemishes from our history we should teach the ideas that that all those flawed men and women put on the table that moved the human race up a step on the ladder.
Forrest was also a very effective military leader from his state.
“Get there the fusest with the mostest.”
So come off it Cruz. Go fight live DemocRats instead of pandering to the left by attacking dead ones.
Would you oppose a monument to John Bell Hood in Texas?