There’s no doubt in Tennessee State Sen. Heidi Campbell’s (D) mind that Senate Republicans are retaliating against a state historical commission for voting to remove a bust of the slave trader, Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol.
Someone should just fucking destroy the fucking thing and be done with it. The real vandalism is its continued existence.
FUCK THE NEOCONFEDERATE GQP TRUMP KKKULT.
The bust, to be sure, still has its defenders in the state. Before voting to replace the Tennessee Historic Commission Wednesday, State Senator Janice Bowling (Republican) warned of the dangers of “cancel culture.”
“In our culture today it seems there is a desire, it seems, to cancel history, cancel culture, cancel narratives that are just based on fact,” she said.
There’s a whole lot of c-c-c-cancelin’ goin’ on 'round here.
There is a high school in Kansas named after a Klan leader. The students and alumni are demanding a name change. There’s not total support to change the name, but everyone against it is afraid to say anything. Kansas is a Free State, btw.
“The nonprofit then removed the statues, one of Bedford Forrest and one of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.”
I propose a compromise: They can have a Jefferson Davis statue – but only one of him being captured in a dress while fleeing the confederate capital, disguised as a woman, his failed traitor state crumbling around him.
Now there’s a history these hypocrites totally want to “erase”.
I want the South to secede. Draw the Northern border just north of Richmond, VA. Go ahead. Get it over with.
Truth in advertising: I grew up in Georgia and have lived in Northern Virginia for 34 years.
History belongs in museums, not in the state capitol. Forrest was a genius at cavalry tactics, but in an immoral and ultimately losing cause. Sadly, Forrest is seen, not as an enemy of the United States, but as a hero of the Confederacy. While one can respect a skillful enemy, it should not extend to hero worship. One might as well put a statue of Erwin Rommel in the capitol.
A Google search reveals that the bust was sculpted in 1978. It is displayed on a marble ledge at the Tennessee State Capitol, where it looks down on people and their property.
Kancel the Klan.
Also, 1978, WTAF???
“Edward Phillips, an attorney who represents the surviving great, great grandsons of Bedford Forrest…snip…compared the issue to statues of Roman rulers who governed empires that allowed slavery.”
Unnnh, and exactly how many statues of Roman rulers are there in places of honor in the Tennessee capital?
JFC folks like these are just unbelievable.
The sponsor of the latest legislation, Sen. Joey Hensley ® told TPM he introduced the bill to give the legislature input on the historical commission.
“My legislation is an effort to improve the current process, not a response to current events,” he said in a
statementbald-faced lie.
Fixed it for you.
If you can justify a bust of Nathan Fricking Klansman Beford Forrest, in such a public place and only there since 1978, then with the slightest nudge you could also justify a statue of David Duke, or Mussolini on a horse.
Erwin Rommel was more opposed to Hitler than the current median of TN GOP.
Yes. They can also have all the statues of Lee they want. Sitting at a table, surrendering to Grant.
There are some very fine people on both sides if you think racists can be very fine people.
Lindsey Graham would make a perfect model for this statue.
No mention of Forrest’s greatest atrocity, the Fort Pillow massacre.
You should get down to Richmond sometime. Pretty sure they would want no part of that.
Might as well cancel that outreach program to persuade businesses to move their headquarters to Tennessee.
“State Senator Janice Bowling ® warned of the dangers of “cancel culture.”
“In our culture today it seems there is a desire, it seems, to cancel history, cancel culture, cancel narratives that are just based on fact,” she said.“
The so called cancel culture is not necessarily a bad thing. The majority of the Confederate statues were put in the 1890-1910 era of Jim Crow for the purpose of enforcing White Supremacy. Canceling the visible symbols of White Supremacy is a positive good.