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Now everything's gonna be all right. Milk and honey for everybody.
Yeah! We're cured! Oh wait, next is Washington, Jefferson, (they owned slaves), the racist Constitution, and the racist, imperialist American flag. WWI, and WWII memorials (we had segregation of troops then). Get rid of all NASA, and mission symbols leading up to, and including Apollo (no Black astronauts)..........
Yeah! We're cured! Oh wait, next is Washington, Jefferson, (they owned slaves), the racist Constitution, and the racist, imperialist American flag. WWI, and WWII memorials (we had segregation of troops then). Get rid of all NASA, and mission symbols leading up to, and including Apollo (no Black astronauts)..........
That's the big stuff. They still have to rename countless streets, cities, and counties.
If these people lived in Germany, I would bet they would be calling for Hitlers death camps to be torn down too!
They simply do not understand why things like this must always stay in place, and when it reaches the point of tearing them down, repeating history is right around the corner.
There are no monuments to Hitler in Germany by law.
when are we going to start renaming all the MLK highways?
Usually the part of town in every city where the crime is highest. Memphis had the highest murder rate in decades last year and is on track to be close this year, a homicide rate not seen since the crack epidemic days but at least the statues are down
Usually the part of town in every city where the crime is highest. Memphis had the highest murder rate in decades last year and is on track to be close this year, a homicide rate not seen since the crack epidemic days but at least the statues are down
Let's see how the statues coming down impacts the crime and poverty of minorities living in Memphis.
how soon til the liberals get to Mt Rushmore and the DC Monuments?
One of the statues taken down in Memphis was of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Forrest was an incredible calvary leader, often defeating larger Union forces then in his own against the odds. He was also personally brave, charging the Union lines, at one battle by himself.
However, he also a slave owner and a slave trader before the Civil War. Far worse, he was the one of the founders of the KKK. Even though he seems to have turned against the KKK later on, it is not hard to understand why so many people would be upset to have a statue of Forrest in a local park.
Forrest is just too controversial, great calvary leader but with some terrible ethical and moral decisions.
I realize that Forrest was from Memphis, but why did the founder of the KKK have a freaking statue in the first place?
Forrest isn’t from Memphis...he grew up in Central Tennessee.
He has a statue because southerners admire their murderous psychopaths from the Civil War.
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Originally Posted by Southern man
That's the big stuff. They still have to rename countless streets, cities, and counties.
We’ll get to those eventually. Hopefully, anyway.
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Originally Posted by LINative
One of the statues taken down in Memphis was of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Forrest was an incredible calvary leader, often defeating larger Union forces then in his own against the odds. He was also personally brave, charging the Union lines, at one battle by himself.
However, he also a slave owner and a slave trader before the Civil War. Far worse, he was the one of the founders of the KKK. Even though he seems to have turned against the KKK later on, it is not hard to understand why so many people would be upset to have a statue of Forrest in a local park.
Forrest is just too controversial, great calvary leader but with some terrible ethical and moral decisions.
Forrest is also the Butcher of Fort Pillow where he massacred black Union troops that had surrendered. That’s his biggest crime.
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