Daily (hourly?) attack on the south thread - nathan bedford nashville statue ed.

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Are they going to take all the signage down and put big trees up so that people who drive down (the highway) there can't see the Hermitage? Are they going to do the same thing over on Highway 100 for the Belle Meade mansion? Are they going to do the same thing over here on Franklin Road for Travellers Rest? They were all slaveholders. "I'm upset with the knee-jerk reaction," he added, arguing that the statue has nothing to do with the recent shootings in Charleston, S.C., that prompted the outcry. "They've got this idiot ... down there in South Carolina, and he's hiding behind the Confederate flag. Where were the authorities that were supposed to be keeping up with people like him?"

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