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MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com)--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."

Stupidity abounds.

 

Take that money and fix some of the giant freakin' potholes within your city limits. Morons.

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So, in their place are they going to try and bury history?:idunno:

Title seems misleading. According to the article,

 

This battle is far from over. It will require more votes, approval from the Tennessee Historical Commission and will most likely end up in court.

Regardless of what you think about this particular individual, and believe me, he is probably top of the list of questionables, why is it just not good enough to leave the dead in peace ?

Title seems misleading. According to the article,

 

Is that better

Is that better

 

Now that it is accurate, yes.

Why not dig up all Spaniards, destroy all Spanish monuments along with the Portuguese things since they are the first to bring slaves over.

We should also destroy all Islamic monuments because it was the Islamist who captured the blacks in Africa and sold them into slavery to the Spanish and Portuguese.

Regardless of what you think about this particular individual, and believe me, he is probably top of the list of questionables, why is it just not good enough to leave the dead in peace ?

I think he is at the top of everyone's list right now.

 

I did some reading on him and found some interesting things that History may have gotten wrong or been misleading on.

 

t was at about this time that Forrest, learning of the KKK, expressed a desire to join. The eminent recruit was elected grand wizard, the Klan's highest official, and tried to bring the rapidly multiplying dens under a centralized authority — his own. Forrest probably did not object to the violence, per se, as a means of restoring the pre-war hierarchy, but as a military man, he deplored the lack of discipline and structure that defined the growing KKK. In its methods and aims, the KKK was merely the avenging ghost of the Confederate army. To Forrest's dismay, though, it was not an army that he could command.

 

After only a year as Grand Wizard, in January 1869, faced with an ungovernable membership employing methods that seemed increasingly counterproductive, Forrest issued KKK General Order Number One: "It is therefore ordered and decreed, that the masks and costumes of this Order be entirely abolished and destroyed." By the end of his life, Forrest's racial attitudes would evolve — in 1875, he advocated for the admission of blacks into law school — and he lived to fully renounce his involvement with the all-but-vanished Klan. A new, different, and much worse Klan would emerge, 35 years after Forrest's death, in the wake of D.W. Griffith's revolutionary 1915 film, Birth of a Nation, a reactionary screed with a racialist brief that had been expanded to include Catholics and immigrants of all kinds. The second Klan was never restricted to the South; its goals had nothing to do with Forrest's vision of a restored Dixie.

I think he is at the top of everyone's list right now.

 

I did some reading on him and found some interesting things that History may have gotten wrong or been misleading on.

What's your source on this piece of revisionist history? If the KKK connection and that the fact that Forrest earned his pre-war living as a slave trader aren't enough to have the old general's bones moved from the public park, there's always strike three ... the Fort Pillow massacre.

I'm not sure I would object to removing the statue, although I'm quite indifferent about that, but moving his bones is just dumb. The dude is dead. Even the most despicable of people deserve to have their remains undisturbed.

I'm not in favor of anything that glorifies the Confederacy or anything having to do with it.

 

I'm also not in favor of digging up bodies just because we can.

What's your source on this piece of revisionist history? If the KKK connection and that the fact that Forrest earned his pre-war living as a slave trader aren't enough to have the old general's bones moved from the public park, there's always strike three ... the Fort Pillow massacre.

PBS it was part of a background info on some stuff that was brought on there. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and the KKK | Follow the Stories | Antiques Roadshow | PBS

 

I'm not defending him, just saying there is more there than what has always been told about him.

What's your source on this piece of revisionist history? If the KKK connection and that the fact that Forrest earned his pre-war living as a slave trader aren't enough to have the old general's bones moved from the public park, there's always strike three ... the Fort Pillow massacre.

Well get your shovel and join the crusade. Send us pics.

Since Forrest Gump was named after him is the book and movie going to be banned?

 

The slope continues to get slipperier, almost to the point of absurdity now.