Posted on 07/23/2015 4:08:17 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A group was fed up with waiting, so they got a shovel and dug up a patch of grass next to Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grave and statue in a public park in the Medical District.
The group says they wanted the statue and remains removed for a long time, because he was a Confederate soldier, a KKK leader and a slave trader.
“If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,” said Isaac Richmond with Commission on Religion and Racism. ” We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up.”
“They can protest all they want. Just because they don’t like it, doesn’t mean they are right. Digging up the park is just pure and simple vandalism,” said Lee Millar, the spokesperson for the Forrest family and Sons of Confederate Veterans.
He said every person who held onto that shovel broke the law today.
“That’s plain vandalism,” he said.
“We really don’t want to make this a confrontation. We just want to say hey, we want to get on with it!” said Richmond.
The City Council agreed to move the statue and the remains.
Now state law requires the Tennessee Historical Commission to sign off.
The issue will have to go before the Chancery Court as well.
The group told WREG if the process took too long, the could take more drastic measures.
“We are going to bring the back hoe, the tractors and the men with the equipment to raise Bedford Forrest from the soil of Memphis,” said Richmond.
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No. The resentment for these action will increase, and things will get increasingly worse until we have a REAL race ware on our hands.
I have yet to see an animated dead man. Maybe in the zombie apocalypse... :)
They are stirring more hatred now than they’ve ever imagined. Our hatred will surpass theirs.
Regrettably, that’s the only thing that stopped the scalawags & the carpetbaggers before and it’s the only thing that will stop them now. They have never had an ounce of respect for the law nor an iota of control over their impulses.
This isn’t really about race unless a person makes it be. Our Southern brethren need protection- White or Black. Remember Anthony Hervey.
That's SO brilliant! Why didn't anyone think of this before? This should also put an end to Global warming, and maybe eliminate gender confusion! :)
Someone's been watching too many horror movies.
“We are going to bring the back hoe, the tractors and the men with the equipment to raise Bedford Forrest from the soil of Memphis,”
Right thinking Americans should bring their own “tools” too, to prevent this atrocity.
Vandalizing a U.S. Veterans place of rest?
Destroying a monument of the past just like ISIS does !
Why wasn’t this group arrested?
One of the greatest military minds, not only of the American Civil War, but of the history of human conflict; and it was a natural ability, bereft of the benefit of a formal military education. These idiots will be dust, but they can never take away this man’s genius.
“If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,”
Ignorance as a way of life.
Desecrating a grave is a crime in most jurisdictions.
Probably the most work this SOB has done in a long time.
Productivity is way down. When they were slaves, they would have had the general dug up in no time. Yet another Obama job training program is needed to show them how to work a shovel.
moochelle did say that we would have to change our history.
Very similar to the morons that use "gun violence" as their rallying cry. I'm forever pointing out the ignorance behind that term applied to an inanimate object. Interesting how there's nearly a perfect Venn diagram overlap between the two groups...
Bovine excrement!
Yup. Two words involved in that phrase. Remove the gun and you change nothing, remove the violence and you change everything.
If we dig him up our youts will quit killing each other...right? #emptygesturesmatter
But he's dead... (?) He is gone. I think you're gone. I think you want to set free slaves free. Aren't non-issue activists amusing?
Watched the video, didn’t see any white people at the grave site, all the shovelers were black. Need to go after those who gave those useful idiot shovelers their marching orders.
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