Tennessee will continue observing Nathan Bedford Forrest Day every year on the slave trader, Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan grand wizard’s birthday, after yet another unsuccessful attempt to eliminate the day of observation once and for all.
Can someone please remind them again, they lost the Civil War. Badly.
I think it’s time to start afew new traditions for celebrating NBF Day. May I start the suggestions:
Republican town near me is the birthplace of Thaddeus Stevens. I’m going to start agitating for them to have a Thaddeus Stevens day and a statue that they have to look at every day.
So, just how do they laud and honor NBF? What do they say about his many “accomplishments”? How would an alternate script fly, which talks about war crimes and Fort Pillow, domestic terrorism and the KKK? Yes, there’s always the danger that lots of Tennesseers would eat it up. But how about the rest of the country, assuming the Shamestream Media deigns to cover the REAL Right?
Weird, I would have never thought they’d go for the science fiction genre.
Viewers ought to GET three lashes with a bullwhip. You know, to get the full NBF experience.
Even as a Southerner who once lived in Mississippi, I find it shocking there’s a day for celebrating this guy. Maybe the Dems in Tennessee should go the opposite direction – find a few more of the most hideous slavery supporters and suggest days for them too, complete with lengthy examination of their most odious acts.
the slave trader, Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan grand wizard
I know that Matt’s being provocative using those adjectives for Forrest, but does he have any actual accomplishments that would make him generally worthy of the recognition of a specific day in TN? Did he serve any governmental post (Wikipedia indicates no) or other position where he was influential in passing important legislation? Did he support any significant cause (ahem) that Tennesseans want to honor him for?
Otherwise this just seems like a continued FU to the black community and their (own the) libs allies. The only “accomplishment” I can see is that he’s a controversial historical figure who happened to be born and live in TN. I don’t see any evidence that he achieved anything noteworthy for TN during his lifetime.
In TN, it’s probably a felony to even say that in public.
So… the Fort Pillow Guy?
Wow, massacred that one…
“If he was alive today, he would want me to be in shackles, digging up dirt for nothing, for free. He would rape me. He would kill my mom and dad. He would take me away from my family.”
And multiply that recollection by more than a million – in today’s Tennessee alone.
I’ve heard it said that we are lucky that African Americans mostly just want equality, respect and dignity and not revenge.
It’s like how Obama was not allowed to be angry.
