re: Alabama Governor signs bill that prevents local governments from removing monuments

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Alabamians dont play that shite. They tore down a Nathan Bedford Forrest monument in selma and it was replaced with a shiny new one a few months later. Selma is 80% black, and Forrest was definitely in the Klan in addition to being a confederate general.

The monument still stands, amongst a sea of tiny confederate flags planted in the ground around it

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Nathan Bedford Forrest actually surrendered just a few miles from my farm. I understand he was the last Confederate General to surrender in the war. There is a confederate cemetery there with a cannon that at the end of the war was dropped into the river to keep it out of the hands of the Yankees. Years later the people of Gainsville got the cannon out of the river and placed it in the cemetery. It is a really interesting place.

Gainsville (Population 208) at one time was the 4th largest city in Alabama (approximately 4000 people).

Here is the cemetery