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Yeah and it was one of those superior white men that put a bullet in his head.
Does that alter the fact that he held racist views? No. Does it alter the fact that he is honored today? No. Therefore, I'm not sure why you posted it as a rebuttal to my post which simply made those two points.
Does that alter the fact that he held racist views? No. Does it alter the fact that he is honored today? No. Therefore, I'm not sure why you posted it as a rebuttal to my post which simply made those two points.
Well Lincoln was wrong thats why I posted that. He felt blacks were inferior but it was a savage white man who killed him. Anyway I want compare Lincoln to some Confederate scuzzball no matter what he said.
There are buildings all over the country with the name Robert Byrd on them
Ooh, good point. Because Democrats in West Virginia kept electing a man to the Senate decades after he publicly stated he regretted his racist history, "the left" in the United States, no matter where they live, is collectively hypocritical any time anybody criticizes somebody like Haley Barbour for refusing to criticize or condemn a movement to put early KKK leader and Confederate general (who was in charge of a massacre at Fort Pillow, despite revisionist Southern historians) Nathan Forrest on a license plate.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self-educated, innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading southern advocate in the postwar years. He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against blacks and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South.[1]
Wiped out financially by the war, he resumed planting and became the president of the Selma, Marion & Memphis Railroad, which he helped to promote. Joining the Ku Klux Klan shortly after the war, he was apparently one of its early leaders. Forrest once summed up his military theory as "Get there first with the most men." He died, probably of diabetes, at Memphis on October 29, 1877, and is buried there.
1867 - In 1867, Nathan Bedford Forest, a former Confederate cavalry general, became the first Imperial Wizard and changed the group's focus to racism.
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Haley Barbour wouldn't hesitate to make a denouncement if they asked his opinion of Adolf Hitler.
Leave it to liberals to make statements they cannot back up. Attack the man for not interjecting himself into a delecate topic which is up to the people of his state to decide and dimiss his capabilities based upon this and this alone.
I suspect to those accustomed to throwing stones in shallow water it is easier to make much of this non-issue than to acknowledge the massive recovery and rebuilding effort Gov. Barbour spearheaded following the devistation done to Mississippi's and Southern half of the state and gulf coast following hurricane Katrina.
I guess it also doesn't help that Barbour didn't tow the Obama line during the BP oil spill but rather pointed out that the catastrophy was preventable and avoidable.
But no, liberals would have us believe that the man should be crucifed because they don't choose to learn about factual Southern history and their disdain for the South in general, even for one long dead Confederate General Forrest.
Well Lincoln was wrong thats why I posted that. He felt blacks were inferior but it was a savage white man who killed him. Anyway I want compare Lincoln to some Confederate scuzzball no matter what he said.
Leave it to liberals to make statements they cannot back up. Attack the man for not interjecting himself into a delecate topic which is up to the people of his state to decide and dimiss his capabilities based upon this and this alone.
The license plate cannot happen without the governor's support. Whether he supports it or not makes a huge difference!
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