re: Nathan Bedford Forest bust to be removed from TN capitol

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And you choose the man who betrayed and fought against his own people?

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Forest betrayed and fought against his own people - Americans. Allegiance to a state, instead your country, may have been commonplace then, but was utterly foolish to do so.

I’m a Virginian, a Southerner, and then an American.

We’ve been Virginians for four centuries now.

America is younger than we are.

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They should have bent to the Federal government, even if it was the wrong thing to do, because the Federal government was so powerful?

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They sure didn't mind wielding the "so powerful" Fedgov's long arm via the Fugitive Slave Act.

and it wasn’t limited to “Wartime propaganda” prior to it was a massive shitton of PRE-War Yankee Propaganda

-What they striped from history books and censored (along w/ the Lying Yankee Media for a almost 2centuries)..and LIED about was the fact that Jim Crow Laws were FORCED upon the South by Abraham Lincoln himself to force ex slaves North because the Factories and Mills were desperate for uneducated labor forces to operate them.  After Yankee labor forces of simpleton White men had been decimated by the Confederacy. 
And YET the Yankee “historians” continue to tell us grand LIE after LIE about how the all powerful and all wicked and penniless Confederacy, who couldn’t take a shite with Yankee Govenors and mayors running the shitshow during Reconstruction..were guilty of creating the:
 •YANKEE CREATED• 
 ....Jim Crow LAWS
literally REVERSING and Lying and distorting the Confederate historical record. It’s Utter corruption in the Yankee NYC publishing cesspool of historical lies.

And Yet,

The South not only had a solid legal foundation for Seceding, (as explicitly outlined by the founding fathers and Thomas Jefferson himself..states the “independent confederacies’” have a Constitutional Right to Secede in the event of 
-Misrepresentation
-No Government investment 
-Over Taxation i.e High Tariffs
-Government Over Reach, etc. 
Sounds Familiar...? It should.
Same thing goes on TODAY

This is what ultimately leads to the 1850 “Missouri Compromise”)...
By the time 1860 rolls around the Southern politicians were left with NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE, Aside from being extorted by exorbitant Yankee Tariffs(the Yankees "arbitrary and capricious" extortion payments were well underway by 1850)...So by the time 1860 finally rolls around after another decade of Yankee Meddling, Doxxing and Extorting their Livelihoods and culminating in an illegitimate War upon the Confederate States of America. 
-The Confederate’s had an unmistakable & undisputed Legal, Ethical, pragmatic, principled, 
and deeply-personal purpose for Secession.  And yet, many still sought unity even Jubal Early was the last to finally admit it was useless talking with the recalcitrant, repugnant and sanctimonious Yankees once the “Bolsheviks” we’re running the “Civil War-show”. 
The Yankee MEDIApresses of NYC...turned the Civil WAR into an early form of Vaudevillian-esque Agit-Prop Theatre and propaganda. 
In Precisely the same fashion that the novel Uncle Toms Cabin was written by a raving zealot for abolishing slavery, which was immediately sensationalized worldwide leading to multi-millions of copies by 1855. 
Media propaganda and mindwarping has been around for a very very long time and it was weaponized against the Confederacy and it.still.is.to. this.very.day. 
George Soros and Walter Issacson using the cover of The Aspen Institute, orchestrated and inculcated the entire Confederate Hate & Smear Campaign you’ve been witnessing for the last 5 years. They manufactured the current ISIS-like “Confederate Cleansing” that they created by brilliantly getting then DemonicRAT mayor Mitch Landrieu to unilaterally issue his edict to remove 4 Confederate Historical Landmarks in New Orleans. We have the proof proving collusion and that Soros and Issacson orchestrated the entire shitshow including Race-riots, and Astro-turfing City Councils meetings for 2 years. Make NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT..the Confederate Cleansing is 1000% Globalist MANUFACTURED.  

Meanwhile,

Imagine living in a 75% White majority Country... 
• with massive urban metropolises where black democrat politicians have been in total of power for 4 generations NOW,
• in a White Country with more black billionaires and millionaires than 90% of the worlds countries. 
• where blacks are barely 12% of the population YET they commit 52% of all crime and murders same White majority. 
• and the 'Icing on the Cake' is how Farrakhan-esque "FU@K White America" NFL sanctioned salutes are praised by the bankingMediaElite. 
.... and yet millions of brainwashed racist tools are still on the ground SNIVELING like toddlers about....
 "mUh wHiTe sUpEmAcY"...

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What did they do with their bodies?

I'm pretry sure that's illegal.

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They were going to re-inter them at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis (their original resting place; the remains were moved to the park in 1904).

However, the Sons of Confederate Veterans stepped in and, with support of the Forrest descendants, are taking responsibility for both the statue and remains and will be moving them to central Tennessee, near Columbia, so that the remains and the statue will stay together.

I don't necessarily have a problem with the succeeding from the union thing when it was done; it was threatened by many states over many issues since the country's inception. Also, while slavery was an evil institution (even if not as bad as it portrayed today), it was the law-of-the-land in America and had been for centuries all across the world. So, I agree regarding the judgment of these events.

However, in creating the KKK, Forrest was effectively a terrorist against America.

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(even if not as bad as it portrayed today)

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I’m a Virginian, a Southerner, and then an American.

We’ve been Virginians for four centuries now.

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I prefer to think of myself as an American, a Tennessean, and a Southerner by default.

My ancestry is too much of a mixed bag to focus on just one state, but does include some early 1600's Virginia folks. It also includes some 1st Alabama Cavalry Unionists (and an unhealthy sprinkling of Secesh as well).

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My guess is the post means that the treatment of slaves, in general, wasn't as bad across the board as it is portrayed today,

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It was as bad as portrayed.

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But, not every slave was beaten/whipped/raped/worked until they died in the fields. Did it happen? Yes. Was that the norm? No.

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It was very normal to rip slaves from their own families - often with zero notice - for the rest of their lives. It was also very common to essentially rape slaves.

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They just dug up his and his wife’s bodies a month or so ago.

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For the second time at a minimum