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City Council unanimously approves removal of Nathan Bedford Forrest remains from municipal park
Fox 6 WBRC ^ | July 7, 2015 | Kontji Anthony

Posted on 07/08/2015 4:09:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

The Memphis City Council approved a resolution to move the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Mayor Wharton said this is a movement designed to honor Forrest’s will and testament, in which his last wish was that he and his wife be buried at Elmwood Cemetery.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: confederate; csa; desecration; forrest; nathanbedfordforrest
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Let the digging up of Confederate corpses begin!!!
1 posted on 07/08/2015 4:09:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: nathanbedford

For your passing fancy....


2 posted on 07/08/2015 4:10:33 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Timber Rattler

And let it start in TN, where there was a lot of support for “the union”. And it still there with Lamar! and Corker.


3 posted on 07/08/2015 4:10:35 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Ok, so the guy was a racist but I don’t agree with moving his remains. Liberals have no shame in accomplishing their agenda! Heathens!


4 posted on 07/08/2015 4:15:08 AM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Bastards


5 posted on 07/08/2015 4:16:11 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: Timber Rattler

This is getting crazier and crazier every day.


6 posted on 07/08/2015 4:16:15 AM PDT by livius
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To: Timber Rattler

This is turning into a prolog for reparations. There is money in perpetuating victimhood.


7 posted on 07/08/2015 4:20:56 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: ForAmerica

Forrest was a complicated guy, and if you read a couple of speeches he made late in life, you might doubt he was a racist.

But I think his public image problem started with eating those babies for breakfast, after Fort Pillow....


8 posted on 07/08/2015 4:30:46 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Timber Rattler

KKK - Robert Byrd - Obama eulogized - time to turn this back on the Dems now...........


9 posted on 07/08/2015 4:30:51 AM PDT by avital2
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To: Timber Rattler

One hundred of these s—t-eating city council types couldn’t have touched the man while he was alive.

Give him a pistol, throw him a knife...and watch them scuttle back into the muck.


10 posted on 07/08/2015 4:32:01 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Timber Rattler
Mayor Wharton said this is a movement designed to honor Forrest’s will and testament, in which his last wish was that he and his wife be buried at Elmwood Cemetery.

Everybody who believes this reason and reasoning please raise your hand.

11 posted on 07/08/2015 4:42:11 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Timber Rattler

If Forrest was as racist as the Memphis city council seems to believe, he would approve wholeheartedly of his remains being moved out of that city.
Memphis is a shithole.


12 posted on 07/08/2015 4:45:40 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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If Forrest was as racist as the Memphis city council seems to believe, he would approve wholeheartedly of his remains being moved out of that city. Memphis is a shithole.

ROFL. Obviously, the liberals have gone wild and feel they have every right now to openly insult the South. Wonder how this is all going end up? I have the feeling someone intends to enslave all of us.

13 posted on 07/08/2015 4:48:55 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Wouldn’t they need permission of any remaining family for a disinterment?


14 posted on 07/08/2015 4:53:24 AM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: Timber Rattler

Destroy the history, destroy the remnants of truth, erase from all the public memory the struggles of a Nation...

This vacuum started its sucking sound several generations ago in classrooms across America.

And now those adult-children only see the world as victims, not a Nation in triumph over its own struggles.


15 posted on 07/08/2015 4:55:26 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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i was driving through memphis the other day and a talking head was talking of a budget “crisis” exhuming graves isnt cheap i wonder how this feel good act of bufoonery will be paid for?


16 posted on 07/08/2015 4:58:05 AM PDT by jneesy (rough seas make skillful sailors)
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To: Charles Martel

Let’s reach across the aisle and suggest moving the good General to Graceland.


17 posted on 07/08/2015 5:03:00 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Old Sarge

Memphis is now officially a no-go zone for whites.


18 posted on 07/08/2015 5:05:09 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: jneesy

This time they do it with a bit of faux respect and that costs money. Next time they will just destroy it because that is cheaper.


19 posted on 07/08/2015 5:22:12 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: Timber Rattler

Not even the dead are safe from racist witch hunts anymore. “That dead corpse over there is a racist! Dig him up!”


20 posted on 07/08/2015 6:01:37 AM PDT by TheGipperWasRight
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