Posted on 06/29/2015 9:36:07 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
On an incredibly hot day, a cool decision was made by the Governor of Alabama. He took down the Confederate flags flown on our capital grounds in Montgomery. This is a good thing. It is good because now our capital, and so symbolically our State, is more welcoming than before. The Governor took a stand for all the people of Alabama.
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Most of the soldiers of days gone by knew about as much about grand politics as soldiers of today. They would be content, I'm certain,to have their time and flag memorialized in a museum, not as a prop for some race baiters. I know this because I know soldiers, who wouldn't want to hurt anyone unfairly. I believe that General Nathan Bedford Forrest, upon his remarkable conversion to Christianity after his Klan leadership days, said this best when he addressed a black citizens' group in Memphis in the 1870s:
"I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to elevate every man, to depress none. I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going. I came to meet you as friends.... When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together."
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
Will Bill Clinton change?
Will his wife change?
Will the Kenyan change???
Leopards don’t change their spots.
Ignorant editorial.
Most of the soldiers of the Civil War were very aware of the policies of their respective governments. They were not just ignorant yokels.
The Mayor of Memphis proposed to remove the grave of General Forest.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/memphis-mayor-wants-to-literally-dig-up-confederate-general-and-move-him/
I think that you are inaccurate. According to Al Gore, who was vice-president and should know these kind of things, a leopard cannot change his stripes.
He’s the smartest man in the world...except for Hillary Clinton.
This is a good thing. It is good because now our capital, and so symbolically our State, is more welcoming than before
Actually your state is less welcoming. By this action your State has shown it is intolerant and caves to the whims of the mob. That is not a friendly situation.
Except sometimes they do. Christ can work miracles.
The governor caved in to a politically correct feeding frenzy and looked like a pandering coward while doing it. Actually, it was a preemptive cave before the frenzy even focused on the flag flying over a Confederate memorial on the Alabama Capitol grounds.
Can you change? :-)
So the first grand Wizard of the KKK, who has been dead over one hundred years is now a swell guy?
Oh, right. I guess global warming, er, ah... climate change has made the leopards spots turn into stripes.
From what I understand, after coming to Christ, he repented his past. Some of his speeches are available online. From the tenor of them and the circumstances in which they were given, I'd say that I accept his repentance at face value. YMMV.
The love of Christ writ upon the heart can do amazing things.
I wonder if Chapel Hill, TN will consider providing gravesites for the bodies of Gen. Forrest & his wife. I reckon that was his birthplace; and the Johnny Come Lately Yankees who have moved in over there in the last few years can hardly deny his right to be there. Moving down here and telling us Rebs “what for” just does not work; not for me at least.
Some historian must've found his Democrat voter registration card.
The governor did not do this for the people of Alabama. He did it because he is a cowardly Republican. We now refer to him as Robert Obama Bentley.
LOL! In my old home town in Hudson County, NJ being dead was never an excuse not to vote— Democrat that is.
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