Memphis City Council Approves Plan to Dig Up Confederate General

[eddiehaskell]

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."

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[PeaceAndLove42]

What is this insanity? They are both LONG DEAD why bother???

If I convert to Islam and kill a bunch of Christians at a church can I get everything Islam related removed?

[TheWiseWino]

Well they dug up Oliver Cromwell hung him and put his head on a pike. Everything is relative.

[Mr_Geek]

PC gone awry. We have been on a downward spiral for a decade or more.

[bjh]

What for? Doing so accomplishes nothing.

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[Electrician4you]

PC running amok. We should just rewrite our country's history. All the things some don't agree with get removed and buried. Oh wait dammit......can't do that. We would have to dig them up and move them in 100 years.
Well back to bitching and complaining about a object, rather than the actual guy who pulled the trigger. Now if the killer posed with a Texas flag do we remove that too?

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by PeaceAndLove42

What is this insanity? They are both LONG DEAD why bother???

If I convert to Islam and kill a bunch of Christians at a church can I get everything Islam related removed?

It's the Lunacy of the far left Lets pretend the guy didn't exist and the South too, then maybe that will make things better

[Felix C]

Originally Posted by TheWiseWino

Well they dug up Oliver Cromwell hung him and put his head on a pike. Everything is relative.

Yeah, because contemporary U.S. Society should be measured by the practices of the 1600s.

[phetaroi]

LS Juan, don't exaggerate. To you, I would be a "far lefter". But I think what they are suggesting here is atrocious.

And BTW, there are just as many "far righters" as "far lefters".

[headingtoDenver]

I'm all against what the confederate flag stands for, but even I think digging people up and moving them is just crazy. Fine, get rid of the statue, but leave the bodies where they lie.