re: Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument is Coming Down in Memphis

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I don't see anything redeemable about him.

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He liberated my hometown from the vengeful command of a Russian national who became a general in the Union Army. The path he took is, to this day, 'Forrest Street'.

Definitely not the best fella otherwise, though.

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don't see anything redeemable about him.

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Then you are ignorant.

His story is one of redemption. Read some more about him.

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I am totally against taking down Confederate statues with the exception of Nathan Bedford Forrest. The man started the KKK, I don't see anything redeemable about him.

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From the Huffington Post:

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Sure General Nathan Bedford Forrest may have helped lead the Ku Klux Klan, and he’s blamed for the massacre of Ft. Pillow, but there’s a part of Forrest that needs to be told to those who continue to cheer him as a champion of the South. He eventually saw the light, softened his racism, and eventually worked to destroy the KKK. It was the best thing he ever did.

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Forrest was a brilliant cavalry officer - and a product of his times. Plus he was a man who saw the evils of slavery and worked his arse off to fight what the KKK was becoming.

The ordination of the KKK was NOT to harass blacks. It was a resistance to the reconstruction era corruption.

A statue of Forrest should be a beacon for how monumental human events can change in one lifetime - for the better.

If someone can honor Robert Byrd to this day in the halls of the Senate - and not advocate to erase HIS name off the bridges and libraries and streets in West Virginia, they have no place dishonoring Nathan Bedford Forrest!!!

Byrd joined the KKK with the explicit purpose of marginalizing - if not outright killing - blacks. THAT is a real disgrace