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Tensions are high as the removal of Nathan Bedford Forrest's grave is underway

Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:54 pm
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51393 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:54 pm
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Tensions were still high Wednesday morning on day two of the start of the removal of the remains of Confederate leader Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from UT Health Sciences Park.

One man even tried to burn a Confederate flag in front of our cameras before police stopped him.

“This represents pain and suffering to people of color for hundreds of hundreds of years,” said Larry O’Kelly.


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His reaction was in response to an encounter between Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer and several men wielding Confederate flags, who taunted Sawyer at the site the day before.


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Millar said once the remains are removed, they will be moved to a location in Columbia, Tennessee, along with the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue.


This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 6:55 pm
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
18928 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:56 pm to
fricking stupid.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
261690 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:56 pm to
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“This represents pain and suffering to people of color for hundreds of hundreds of years,”


"People of color" must be terribly incompetent humans if this is their reality.

Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
34515 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:56 pm to
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Millar said once the remains are removed, they will be moved to a location in Columbia, Tennessee, along with the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue.


Sounds like a compromise
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
6609 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:56 pm to
One picture that explains what’s wrong with this country.
Posted by Hester Carries
Member since Sep 2012
22490 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:57 pm to
We're digging up bodies now? And their wives?

It was never going to just be statues.

Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124584 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:57 pm to
fricking disinterring the dead. There is no low they won’t sink to.
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
36241 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:00 pm to
This is ridiculous.
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 7:00 pm
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
6609 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:00 pm to
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This represents pain and suffering to people of color for hundreds of hundreds of years,” said Larry O’Kelly.


I wonder how people being sold in a modern day slave trade on the other side of the world feel about this.
Posted by Sput
Member since Mar 2020
7982 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:00 pm to
Damn ole Nathan just can’t help but making the natives slaughter each other by the thousands each night in places like Chicago and New Orleans even from the grave.

Maybe this will bring an end to all the violence
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142507 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:02 pm to
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Get there fustest with the fattest pigs
Posted by geauxfortwo
Livin the dream
Member since Jan 2018
1920 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:03 pm to
Now they’re digging up graves. It’s like they just look for anything to get removed or canceled. I bet less than 2% of people even knew who was buried there
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 7:04 pm
Posted by HeadSlash
TEAM LIVE BADASS - St. GEORGE
Member since Aug 2006
49870 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:09 pm to
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“This represents pain and suffering to people of color for hundreds of hundreds of years,” said Larry O’Kelly.


Bet you $100, the average person doesn't know who General Forrest was.
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
68941 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:09 pm to
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This represents pain and suffering to people of color for hundreds of hundreds of years,” said Larry O’Kelly.



So how many black people knew where a confederate soldier was buried off the top of their head without looking it up then saying they are offended?
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
155931 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:10 pm to
Posted by USMEagles
Member since Jan 2018
11811 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:10 pm to
They're digging him up? God help us. That's just awful.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134887 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:12 pm to
Mount Vernon and Monticello are on borrowed time
Posted by LSUTigerFan247
Member since Jun 2017
3642 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:14 pm to
There are plenty of dead people who I don't like nor agree with. I don't go to their grave sites. Difficult I know but I manage
Posted by tketaco
Sunnyside, Houston
Member since Jan 2010
19605 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:16 pm to
It's only fair that we dynomite the graves of every politician from the modern era.
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
17064 posts
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:18 pm to
If you are for people digging up a grave of someone in the past, you are truly one sad and pathetic person
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