Denial is one thing.... facts is another. Fact: Nathan Bedford Forrest was a founder of the Ku Klux Klan and was responsible for the Fort Pillow massacre.
Well then, was it a fact that he was invited to speak in Memphis, that he spoke those words, and was honored by the black citizens of the city?
Since when did you care about facts?
Forest arrived to Fort Pillow after the massacre had begun, and put a stop to it. He did not instigate that event.
As for the Ku Klux Klan: there are two distinct eras; you associate Forest with the Klan of the 1950’s and ‘6o’s. In Forest’s time it was a vigilante group, founded out of necessity, to protect the property of native Southerners from predatory yankee opportunists.
Once reconstruction ended and self government was restored, the Klan disbanded.
“Denial is one thing.... facts is another. Fact: Nathan Bedford Forrest was a founder of the Ku Klux Klan and was responsible for the Fort Pillow massacre.”
You might want to bone up on the facts of the Fort Pillow Massacre. Forrest rode between his troops and the Union troops to enforce the cease fire orders. Don’t let facts get in the way of you ignorance though