re: When Are We Going To Rename Washington DC?

I find it funny that so many people discuss the removal of confederate memorials. As I was leaving my farm yesterday I stopped by a small confederate cemetery a few miles away. It was pristine. Grass mowed, no weeds or vines, no damaged or missing headstones.

And this is in Sumter county Alabama. While Sumter county is sparsely populated it has one of the highest number of black people. There is an elderly black man who lives next to the cemetery who came over when he saw me to see what I was doing. I remarked on the grass being cut and he said he kept it that way. When I asked him why he did that for these confederates he replied they were dead and had never done anything to him. And when he died he hoped someone would take care of his grave.

The graveyard is in Gainesville, I understand that is where Nathan Bedford Forrest surrendered. Just prior to his surrender his men tossed a cannon into the the Tombigbee river to keep it out of union hands. Years later it was recovered fro the river by the citizens of Gainesville and placed into the cemetery. The graves of the men there were injured at the battle of Shiloh and sent there to a local hospital.