This is like the ultimate take down of a racist and traitor. They won't even let his bones stay and even removed his wife as well.

Workers begin removing Forrest remains from Tennessee park

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Workers arrived at a Tennessee park Tuesday to begin the process of digging up the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and moving the former slave trader’s body from its longtime resting place in Memphis to a museum hundreds of miles away.

Crews prepared to remove the graves of Forrest and his wife from Health Sciences Park in Memphis’ busy medical district. The park used to bear the name of the early Ku Klux Klan leader and feature a statue of the cavalryman on a horse, but the name has been changed and the statue removed in recent years.

Workers must dismantle the statue’s pedestal before they can disinter the Forrests' remains and move them to a Confederate museum in Middle Tennessee. A heavy crane was positioned nearby as workers began taking apart the pedestal Tuesday. The entire process could take weeks.


With the approval of Forrest’s relatives, the Sons of Confederate Veterans is overseeing the move. A judge approved it late last year, ending a long legal battle.

It is another example of how cities and activists have taken steps in recent years to get rid of statues and monuments of historical figures who supported the South’s secession and led the fight against the North, from Gen. Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.

Forrest sold slaves in Memphis and served in the Confederate army as a cavalry general. In April 1864, Forrest’s troops attacked Fort Pillow in northwest Tennessee and killed 200 to 300 Union soldiers, most of them Black.

Forrest was later accused of massacring the Union soldiers. Questions linger about whether they were killed as they tried to surrender. Northern newspaper reports referred to the battle as an atrocity.

Historians say he later became an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, though some of Forrest’s supporters dispute that. Forrest’s critics call him a violent racist.

The remains of Forrest and his wife were moved from a Memphis cemetery and buried under the statue of the former Memphis City Council member in 1904. The city took down the statue in December 2017 after selling the public park to a nonprofit group, thus circumventing a state law barring the removal of historic monuments from public areas.

A judge in Nashville ruled that the city and Memphis Greenspace, the nonprofit that made the park privately operated, removed the statue legally.

The remains will be reburied and the statue placed at the National Confederate Museum at Elm Springs in Columbia, according to an affidavit from Bedford Forrest Myers, a great-great-grandson. Owned by the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, the museum opened to the public in October. It is located about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from Memphis.

The park where Forrest was buried has been the site of protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists have long called for the removal of both the statue and the remains. The words “Black Lives Matter” have been painted in yellow by activists on a walkway surrounding the tomb.

“Relocating the graves is proper because the Property has lost its character as a burial ground,” Myers wrote in a legal filing.

The tree-lined park is next to the University of Tennessee’s medical school and a community college on Union Avenue, a busy street leading in and out of downtown Memphis.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/workers-begin-removing-forrest-remains-142031514.html

 

Huh.
So, where do you suppose they'll plant biden?
You know, if we're not allowing racists to be planted in national cemeteries and all.

 

100 down 700 to go.

 

It looks like the US is getting a new holiday celebrating the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves on June 19, 1862. The event has historically been refereed to as "Juneteenth" and this is something that surprised me because it seemed to come out of nowhere and the next thing I knew it just sailed through the Senate and appears it will do the same through the House.

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy will support Juneteenth bill

https://www.axios.com/house-kevin-mccarthy-juneteenth-bill-622ade73-52e0-4953-9986-b61c55128d0c.html

 

Juneteenth has been a State Holiday in Texas since 1979.

 

If every politician didnt sign onto juneteenth it would be political suicide and the country would burn

 

I do not like statues celebrating the Confederacy. However, I believe the decision to remove them should be left up to local governments. I am not bothered by statues of slave owners who were not connected with the Confederacy, like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison.

That said, I think the United States would be a far better country today if the slave trade and slavery had never been allowed. I do not think any living whites are better off because of the legacy of slavery. We have nothing to apologize for. We have no need to make amends.

 

Efforts to conciliate blacks encourage them to loot and burn stores.

People do not riot when they feel hopeless; they riot when they feel powerful. After the election of 1876, Reconstruction came to end in the former Confederate states. Blacks were subjugated to second class citizenship, in clear violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Blacks did not riot because they knew it would be suicidal. For nearly a century a race riot, by definition, consisted of whites killing blacks and destroying their property, like what happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma a century ago.

Black ghetto riots only began after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 empowered blacks.

 

"People do not riot when they feel hopeless; they riot when they feel powerful."
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Ah! This explains why people like pelosi and schumer have been seen rioting and shit. Wasn't that Bill Gates we saw last week in Portland, burning the Hatfield building?

 

I need to make a correction here because I totally screwed up the history of Juneteenth.

It did not originate with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation as I said above. Actually Juneteenth was first observed in Texas on June 19, 1865 because even with the Emancipation Proclamation slaves were not freed in states still under Confederate control.

https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/historical-legacy-juneteenth

But with that correction the bill creating a Juneteenth national holiday has passed the House and is headed for President Biden's desk.

PS And with Biden headed back it looks like will celebrate Juneteenth for the first time this year.

 

It took 400 hundred years for the Greeks to rout the Turks ! It might take 400 more years before the Confederacy can establish itself. Our day will come, sooner or later ! And Our Statues will be restored !

 

Spoken like a true traitor to the United States of America. And laughable as well considering southern states depend on the federal government more than Blue states.

But cheer up because it looks like you can take tomorrow off as a federal holiday thanks to Juneteenth that passed both the House and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support.

 

Hypocrite

 

The left wants a genderless society and dictation rights for all

‘Forever Marilyn’ statue to face California protest as it moves to new home: report
Supporters say the statue will help drive tourism to Palm Springs following California’s long coronavirus shutdown

The "Forever Marilyn" statue, which depicts the late actress Marilyn Monroe in one of her most famous on-screen moments, is scheduled to return to Palm Springs, California, on Sunday – but not everyone is happy about it.

Protesters including those from the Women’s March LA Foundation are expected to show up to Sunday’s planned unveiling of the 26-foot-tall statue to express their displeasure, according to a report.

The group claims the statue – which shows Monroe with her dress blowing up in a scene from the 1955 film, "The Seven Year Itch," is sexist and promotes misogyny, the Desert Sun newspaper of Palm Springs reported.

 

Coming full circle and the traitors lose.

Charlottesville Confederate statues are removed
The two statues were removed by 10 a.m. local time.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/confedera...oved-yearslong-legal-battle/story?id=78758192

 

When China takes over , and it seems they will, all of you will wave a rebel flag ! Mark my words !

 

WATCH: Crowds in Charlottesville Cheer As Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson Statues Are Removed

 

Red China, red states.

Just a coincidence? Not likely.

 

Then in the middle of the night, the liberal democrat thought police voted and took down the Lewis and clark statue....liberals don't like the westward expansion......


Wonder who will be the first to mention the indians?