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2015-07-12 Government

Memphis City Council Votes to Dig Up Grave of Confederate General, Sell His Statue

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-12 03:46|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 What's next?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-12 04:23|| 2015-07-12 04:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Concentration camps.

Posted by no mo uro 2015-07-12 07:40|| 2015-07-12 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 ...It is my understanding that EVERYWHERE in the US, it takes a court order to exhume a body, not a hissy fit from a bunch of political hacks. If somebody could find a definite, no-questions descendant of LTGEN Forrest, they could stop this dead in its tracks.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-07-12 08:43|| 2015-07-12 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 There are indeed legal obstacles to the exumeing of the two bodies. In addition, Memphis doesn't own the statue. The Forrest family has made clear that they are “solidly opposed to digging up the graves and moving them any place.” They are opposed to moving the statue as well.

Some believe the Memphis City Council vote is another example of the anti-Confederacy hysteria that swept parts of the country after a photo surfaced of alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof posing with a Confederate flag. But city council member Janis Fullilove asked if the move has something to do with a rumored “$500 million [University of Tennessee] expansion” that would use the land where Forrest is currently buried.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-07-12 10:25|| 2015-07-12 10:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Forrest was a big guy who personally killed somewhere around 30 men (he wasn't counting.) He may be the only man ever to enlist as a private and wind up as a Lieutenant General. Granted that he's been dead for about 140 years, I'd be careful about pissing him off.

Posted by Matt 2015-07-12 11:42|| 2015-07-12 11:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Not even the dead are safe from political correctness tyranny.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-07-12 12:09|| 2015-07-12 12:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Who's next? Elvis! He was a friend of Nixon.

Posted by Shipman 2015-07-12 12:25|| 2015-07-12 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 On April 12, 1865, the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered their weapons and flags to the Army of the Potomac at Appomattox, Virginia. The Union soldiers held their rifles in the "carry" position, indicating a "marching salute," as the Confederates passed by. This display of "honor answering honor" evoked great emotion in both armies.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain recalled details of the day:

"It was now the morning of the 12th of April. I had been ordered to have my lines formed for the ceremony at sunrise. It was a chill gray morning....We formed to face the last line of battle, and receive the last remnant of the arms and colors of that great army which ours had been created to confront...We were remnants also....

We could not look into those braved, bronzed faces, and those battered flags we had met on so many fields where glorious manhood lent a glory to the earth that bore it, and think of personal hate and mean revenge. Whoever had misled these men, we had not. We had led them back home....

Forgive us, therefore, if from stern and steadfast faces, eyes dimmed with tears gazed at each other across that pile of storied relics so dearly laid down, and brothers' hands were glad to reach across that rushing tide of memories which divided us, yet made us forever one."

Fort Sumter had been fired upon exactly four years before, on April 12, 1861.

Chamberlain's "The Passing of the Armies" is public domain and can be read in its entirety here.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-07-12 12:56|| 2015-07-12 12:56|| Front Page Top

#9 This is a desecration. How f33king short sighted and petty can they get?

This is racist.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-07-12 14:20|| 2015-07-12 14:20|| Front Page Top

#10 As an ethnic white Southerner by birth, I'm going to be contrary on this one. Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the Klan. As in "The KKK." Now I know that the history of the KKK is a little more complex than that, but still. Moving his body and getting rid of his statue isn't the same as say doing it to Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson.

Posted by Secret Master 2015-07-12 14:49|| 2015-07-12 14:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Moving his body and getting rid of his statue isn't the same as say doing it to Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson.

Of course not---perish the thought!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-12 15:27|| 2015-07-12 15:27|| Front Page Top

#12 lickspittle pols seeking to ride a wave

Posted by Frank G 2015-07-12 16:16|| 2015-07-12 16:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Koba smiles from the grave...

Posted by borgboy 2015-07-12 16:57|| 2015-07-12 16:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Who could be next ?

"Send 'im back to Tupelo."

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-07-12 17:18|| 2015-07-12 17:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Just wait until they find out a white man is buried in Grant's Tomb.

Posted by Shipman 2015-07-12 18:42|| 2015-07-12 18:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Secret Master, there is already a petition being circulated to rename Rt 1 here in Northern Virginia from the Jeff Davis Highway to something else.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-07-12 19:18|| 2015-07-12 19:18|| Front Page Top

#17 Stalinism. Nikolai Yezhov. Who do they next want to erase from history?

Posted by OldSpook 2015-07-12 19:20|| 2015-07-12 19:20|| Front Page Top

#18 Again, iff there is any catalyst for a de facto, genuine, SECOND CIVIL WAR = DOMESTIC INSURRECTION in Ex-Sole-Superpower, Soon-to-One-of-Many-OWG Co-Superpower Amerika, FERGUSON + SIMILAR PALES IN COMPARISON TO THIS.

BANNING CONFEDERATE FLAGS-N-SYMBOLS, ETC. WHERE THE MAJORITY OF ANTI-UNION/LINCOLN WHITE SOUTHERNERS WERE NOT UPPER-CLASS PLANTATION OWNERS NOR SLAVE-OWNERS, VERSUS KEEPING = NOT-BANNING NAZI + COMMIE FLAGS-N-SYMBOLS UNDER WHICH TENS OR SCORES OF MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS DIED.

KUKU FOR NOT-COCOA PUFFS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-07-12 22:48|| 2015-07-12 22:48|| Front Page Top

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