From [Memphis City] Council Votes To Move Nathan Bedford Forrest's Remains:
The Memphis City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday to move the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from Health Sciences Park.
They have been buried in a park on Union Avenue for 110 years.
Council members are also moving ahead with plans to remove the statue of Forrest, even looking at selling the statue to anyone who wants it.
"The Forrest family is solidly opposed to digging up the graves and moving them any place," said Lee Millar with the Son’s Of Confederate Veterans. "The statue just as well. They're opposed to moving the statue too."
Dig up remains which have been at rest for 110 years? Are you kidding me?
There is also this in the same article:
There were rumors that the rush was on to move the statue and graves of Forrest and his wife in order to sell the property to the University of Tennessee.As for Nathan Bedford Forrest himself, apparently THIS does not matter:
"Has anyone else heard UT is about to do a $500 million expansion and that park is something they want?" asked council member Janis Fullilove.
"When I made this recommendation I had not heard that," replied council member Lowery.
In July 1875, Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation, called the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association. At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a "friendly speech" during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radical agenda (for the time) of equality and harmony between black and white Americans. His speech was as follows:...Read the rest HERE.
PASTORIUS CUTTING IN ---
An Anonymous commenter writes:
To expose the silliness and overreach of this sort of nonsense (which is in no way related to the SC flag issue) I recommend we fight this fire with fire of our own:
1) Demand that the National Cathedral remove Woodrow Wilsons remains. He is the man responsible for segregating the civil service and military.
2) Demand that the FDR memorial be removed since he ordered the internment of Japanese Americans.
3) Make further demands as necessary to cleanse the US of celebrating its racist past.
Make certain to educate the Low Information Voters that the sanctioned scoundrels are uniformly Democrats.
12 comments:
FT. Pillow ALONE speaks to his true feeling on race, and condemns him forever.
But digging up a grave?
OVERSHOOT FAIL
Ridiculous and OFFENSIVE to all americans in that any political fever can result in desecration
Pillow?
Isn't that Michael Jackson's son's name?
No wait, that's "Blanket".
To expose the silliness and overreach of this sort of nonsense (which is in no way related to the SC flag issue) I recommend we fight this fire with fire of our own:
1) Demand that the National Cathedral remove Woodrow Wilsons remains. He is the man responsible for segregating the civil service and military.
2) Demand that the FDR memorial be removed since he ordered the internment of Japanese Americans.
3) Make further demands as necessary to cleanse the US of celebrating its racist past. Make certain to educate the Low Information Voters that the sanctioned scoundrels are uniformly Democrats.
Yep. Dig him up and hang him.
Just like this.
http://www.historyandheadlines.com/january-30-1661-cromwell-executed-two-years-death/
Pasto,
That addendum is full of excellent ideas!
Can we dig up the ancestors of every damn member of the City Council of Memphis? Take their granny's remains and sell the headstones?
Can citizens remember what it means to be Americans? Or will we just reduce ourselves to rabble-rousing crowds, like much of the world?
Personally, were I a descendent of the General and his wife I would already have filed criminal cases against each member of the council for robbing a grave.
From Wikipedia no less:
"The 1868 Democratic National Convention was held at Tammany Hall in New York City.1868 Democratic Slogan, "This is a white man's country, Let a white man rule". The convention was notable for the return of Democratic Party politicians from the southern states.
Also from Wikipedia:
"In July 1875, (Nathan Bedford)Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation, called the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association. At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a "friendly speech"[10] during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radical agenda (for the time) of equality and harmony between black and white Americans."
So there can be no forgiveness on the left. Remember that always.
Has the Republican Party ever branded themselves as the party of "white supremacy?"
Democrats have.
Dig up the racist slave raper Thomas Jefferson for describing native Americans as "savages" in the Declaration of Independence, and take his racist face off every nickel and $2 bill.
Dig up Andrew Jackson for defying the Supreme Court to ethnically cleanse native Americans from their sovereign lands, and take his racist face off the $20 bill.
Dig up the racist Progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson for resurrecting the KKK with federal subsidies, segregating the military, and publicly endorsing D. W. Griffith's Klan recruitment film "Birth of a Nation."
Dig up the racists Franklin Roosevelt and his Klansman Vice-President Harry Truman for putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps and dropping atomic firebombs on Japanese civilians.
Dig up the racist Lyndon Johnson for illegally spying on Civil Rights leaders....
Pretty soon some pimple faced writer at Vox, with a Harf level IQ, will demand that the government rename the US Forest Service because of its obvious reference to Nathan Bedford...LOL.
Dig up racist Abe Lincoln. Google Douglas/Lincoln debate # 4 Sept 18 1858
But you better bring a jackhammer...
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