Memphis city council votes to dig up remains of Confederate Civil War general, wife

libertyunyielding.com ^ | 7/9/15 | By Howard Portnoy

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Memphis city council votes to dig up remains of Confederate Civil War general, wife

By Howard Portnoy

tatue, shmatue. The latest effort to expunge the odious memory of a man who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War doesn’t just end with his sculpted likeness. The city of Memphis wants the earthly remains of General Nathan Bedford Forrest exhumed and moved out of Dodge. His wife’s, too.

CBS affiliate WREG reports:

On Tuesday evening the Memphis City Council unanimously passed a resolution to remove … Forrest’s remains from under his statue in the Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue…. “It is no longer politically correct to glorify someone who was a slave trader, someone who was a racist on public property,” said City Council member Myron Lowery.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Is this for real?

[Puppage]

Is this for real?

I asked myself the very same question.

[Buckeye McFrog]

GRAVE ROBBERS from the DEMOCRAT PARTY



Coming SOON to a theater or drive-in near you!

[Patriot Babe]

Looks like it is for real. This is going toooo toooo far.

[Bogey78O]

There was a time in my life where I had enough respect for the Dead I couldn’t bring myself to show disrespect to someone no matter how vile they were.

That embargo is coming to an end. I might have to start drinking more fluids so I can take a leak on the grave of every leftwinger- I come across.

The prohibition on disrespect is coming to an end.

[cripplecreek]

I’m not sure its legal under current law.

[molson209]

Taking a page out of ISIS’s handbook

[Eric in the Ozarks]

An outrage.

[Puppage]

I can’t say I blame you.

[Vigilanteman]

The only real question should be if the plot was bought and paid for. If, as I suspect, the answer is yes, then end of discussion.

[oh8eleven]

I might have to start drinking more fluids so I can take a leak on the grave of every leftwinger I come across.
Why wait until they're dead?

[SpaceBar]

Taking a page out of ISIS’s handbook

Yup. This is identical to ISIS smashing statues and destroying museums.

[Ingtar]

It is for real. They want to sell the property and the University of Tennessee won’t buy it with Forrest in place.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I am by no means a fan of General Forrest, but this is just nightmarish in its Stalinesque/1984 implications.

[Ingtar]

It was donated as a resting place for Forrest and as a city park.

[cripplecreek]

Confederate war dead were given full status as American soldiers by several laws passed by congress. With that status came all the benefits and honors bestowed on every other American soldier living or dead and the spouses and children of them got the same status as the spouses and children of all other American soldiers.

[Ingtar]

What was there not to like? His taking on the KKK after it became violent, or his attempts to smooth over racial issues in Memphis?

[DuncanWaring]

“It is no longer politically correct to glorify someone who was a slave trader, someone who was a racist ...

In other words, a Democrat.

[Arm_Bears]

And once the remains of General Forrest are removed, all racial strife in Memphis will come to an end—Peace, Love, and unicorns pooping Skittles.

BTW, here in Jacksonville, Nathan Bedford Forrest High School was recently renamed. Part of the “reasoning” was the oppressive effect of the school name on the academic performance of minority students—which are the majority of the school population. Early indications are that student performance has only gotten worse.

[cld51860]

This madness is not going to stop, is it?