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Klan Founder’s Bust Moved From Tenn. House Chamber
WRCB
/January 7, 2010
A bust of Civil War general and early Klu Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest has been moved from outside the doors of the Tennessee House chamber but still remains in a place of prominence on the main floor of the state Capitol.
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on January 7th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Interesting that the state leaders of Tennessee would put so much time, effort an money to perpetuate such a deviant individual
on January 7th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
The statue/bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest needs to be put away in some dark, unvisited basement.
on January 7th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
The statue shoud be destroyed, just like the dreams that were destroyed on so many good people.
on January 7th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
The KKK was the enforcement arm of the Democratic party from the end of the civil war until the 1965. Hate all you want but you should study your history. NB Forrest resigned from the KKK because it became to violent. There is a very big difference between slavery and racism. Slavery in fact was ended as a result of the civil war but racism was the result . It lasted legally until 1965 [north and South] and illegally to present. Hate on if you choose but arn’t you just as guilty. Hate is a two way street.
on January 7th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
JUST BUST A MOVE!!! LOL!
But, seriously, why don’t they just grind the thing into dust? Or at least preserve it for historical reasons, with a plaque saying something like, this is the face of hatred?
on January 7th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
To clarify, FT, Racism existed well before the end of slavery in this country. Indeed legal, institutionalized racism in the USA sprang up immediately after the Stono Rebellion in 1749. You should study your history.
on January 8th, 2010 at 11:06 am
My friend, stono rebellion? Give me a break The point is not when racism started but that it did not end. If we removed every statue from the public because that person did something you think in error, we would have no statues. The civil war has been over a long time. Five generations? How long are you going to hate.The other side had the guys named Sherman, Sheridan and Custer. Study what they did to the American Indian after the civil war. Why not hate them. Why don’t you hate Roosevelt for what he did to the American Japanesse. Admit it Bud your the racist . You just love to hate… Hate is the problem left or right.
on January 8th, 2010 at 11:31 am
PS: Stono rebellion was in 1739 not 1741 and was also called Cato’s rebellion took place in South Carolina not Tenn. . Because of it the SC Assembly [legislature] passed laws protecting the Negro Slave from violent forms of punishment. Your statment [theory] that this rebellion stated racism is very weak if not wrong. Hate or racism as you perfer to call it stated with Cain and Able but congratulations your doing a great job keeping it alive. FUZ
on January 8th, 2010 at 11:55 am
fuz, you have to get over it. What Sherman and Roosevelt did was during a war. A lot of bad things happen in war and there usually a reaction to what the other side did to us. What Forrest did had more to do with his own and other’s prejudices toward the black man. It was illegal long before 1965. Civil rights only legally opened the doors to schools and other public facilities. Discrimination has been illegal since the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865 to end slavery
on January 8th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
OK. but I don’t recall ever declaring war on the Indians [ Who broke the treaties?] or the American Japanesse. Forrest did resign just like Justice Black and Senator [forget name,from West Virginia]. Why hate him so and forgive others? Hate is evil when they did it and when we do it today… How do we watch hate without hating the hater?….. hate is bad both ways.. . NB Forrest had a lot of shortcomings but he was the smartest calvary cammander in the entire war, both sides.
After the civil war most men in the South, native Southerner or yankee carpetbagger were associated with the presevation of what they believed was right but they all didn’t hate. The first black lynched in the South, 1866 Lawrenceville Ga was by Union troops not the KKK. Who hated who.