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Shablagoo
07/10/20 12:03:16 PM
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https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/506672-bust-of-confederate-general-kkk-grand-wizard-to-be-removed

  • Nathan Bedford Forrests bust has been protested by Black Americans since it was placed there in the 1980s.
  • Now, the Tennessee Capitol Commission has voted to relocate the bust along with two others.
  • The removal is one of dozens of Confederate memorials around the country as a result of recent protests.



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JuanCarlos1
07/10/20 12:03:51 PM
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Why TF is there one in the first place?

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Doom_Art
07/10/20 12:03:59 PM
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okay but what about remembering history

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DeroIin
07/10/20 12:04:19 PM
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Muh heritage

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DeadBankerDream
07/10/20 12:05:42 PM
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JuanCarlos1 posted...
Why TF is there one in the first place?

Do you really need to ask?
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Heartomaton
07/10/20 12:06:06 PM
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"Relocate"? I hope they relocate it to the center of the sun.

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SolidShadow3
07/10/20 12:06:50 PM
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How dare they. How dare you! How dare everyone!!

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solosnake
07/10/20 12:07:01 PM
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This is the right kind of history to make.

Welcome to the 21st century Tennessee

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Poop2
07/10/20 12:08:03 PM
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Heartomaton posted...
"Relocate"? I hope they relocate it to the center of the sun.

they should relocate all of these traitors to the field where they had to surrender to the good people
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Questionmarktarius
07/10/20 12:08:57 PM
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Replace it with a bust of Dolly Parton, specifically just the 'bust' part.
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R1masher
07/10/20 12:09:29 PM
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Its not funny, he obviously had mental issues...

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DeadBankerDream
07/10/20 12:10:02 PM
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R1masher posted...
Its not funny, he obviously had mental issues...

Are you okay?
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JlM
07/10/20 12:10:21 PM
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"Sometimes we do things that, well, just don't make sense".
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R1masher
07/10/20 12:11:22 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
Are you okay?

yes, was it too vague?

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ViewtifulGrave
07/10/20 12:12:06 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
Are you okay?
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TopKekBro
07/10/20 12:13:09 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/506672-bust-of-confederate-general-kkk-grand-wizard-to-be-removed

* Nathan Bedford Forrests bust has been protested by Black Americans since it was placed there in the 1980s.
* Now, the Tennessee Capitol Commission has voted to relocate the bust along with two others.
* The removal is one of dozens of Confederate memorials around the country as a result of recent protests.

I bet tucker Carson will whine about this
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FabIemaster
07/10/20 12:14:10 PM
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JuanCarlos1 posted...
Why TF is there one in the first place?


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JlM
07/10/20 12:16:41 PM
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I'm so glad that my wife doesn't have anymore family down in Tennessee. The Smokies were nice but everything else was a shitty, flat, hot wasteland. Also, driving through Kentucky sucked shit.
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JlM
07/10/20 12:20:18 PM
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Im looking at some article because I wanted to get the Forrest Gump quote right. This is interesting :

Forrest would eventually grow disillusioned with the KKK and other white supremacist groups of the era and, after only a year of being Grand Wizard, attempted to dissolve the Klan and ordered that their robes be destroyed.

After publicly distancing himself from the Klan, Forrest came to the defence of the black community in August 1874, after four black men were arrested for defending themselves against lynch mob who attacked them at a BBQ.

Forrest then wrote to the then Tennessee Governor John C. Brown and offered to exterminate the white marauders who disgrace their race by this cowardly murder of Negroes"



Weird. It's rare someone just wakes up one day and is like "Whoa, maybe I should stop being a fucking shithead".
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CableZL
07/10/20 12:22:28 PM
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There was (is?) a bust of a KKK grand wizard in the capital building

Just...

wow

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Shablagoo
07/10/20 12:23:07 PM
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JlM posted...
Im looking at some article because I wanted to get the Forrest Gump quote right. This is interesting :

Forrest would eventually grow disillusioned with the KKK and other white supremacist groups of the era and, after only a year of being Grand Wizard, attempted to dissolve the Klan and ordered that their robes be destroyed.

After publicly distancing himself from the Klan, Forrest came to the defence of the black community in August 1874, after four black men were arrested for defending themselves against lynch mob who attacked them at a BBQ.

Forrest then wrote to the then Tennessee Governor John C. Brown and offered to exterminate the white marauders who disgrace their race by this cowardly murder of Negroes"

Weird. It's rare someone just wakes up one day and is like "Whoa, maybe I should stop being a fucking shithead".

Wow. Thats really cool that he redeemed himself like that. Now I feel kinda bad.

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OgesMC
07/10/20 12:24:57 PM
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Civil war generals and stuff I think have a place as statues but a kkk leader seems like something that should just have been only a wax dummy in history museums in the first place.
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Gheb
07/10/20 12:25:30 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Wow. Thats really cool that he redeemed himself like that. Now I feel kinda bad.
Don't. His bust isn't up there because of his post-Klan achievements.

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Cocytus
07/10/20 12:29:52 PM
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Good
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BeyondWalls
07/10/20 12:31:00 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Wow. Thats really cool that he redeemed himself like that. Now I feel kinda bad.
Yeah, I'm not sure he redeemed himself at all. In fact, I think he was always the same person. He probably saw himself as the white savior and shepherd of the black population. He was no different than Robert E Lee. Some slave owners fought against the mistreatment of slaves, but that didn't mean they were going to give up their slaves.

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Shablagoo
07/10/20 12:34:49 PM
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Gheb posted...
Don't. His bust isn't up there because of his post-Klan achievements.

BeyondWalls posted...
Yeah, I'm not sure he redeemed himself at all. In fact, I think he was always the same person. He probably saw himself as the white savior and shepherd of the black population. He was no different than Robert E Lee. Some slave owners fought against the mistreatment of slaves, but that didn't mean they were going to give up their slaves.

true, true

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Questionmarktarius
07/10/20 12:35:13 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Wow. Thats really cool that he redeemed himself like that. Now I feel kinda bad.
Cancel Culture doesn't really allow for redemption arcs.
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onedarksoul
07/10/20 12:35:21 PM
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Now why couldn't protesters have gotten this one instead of Hans Christian Heg. The mob is so useless.

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Samurontai
07/10/20 12:40:53 PM
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JlM posted...
I'm so glad that my wife doesn't have anymore family down in Tennessee. The Smokies were nice but everything else was a shitty, flat, hot wasteland. Also, driving through Kentucky sucked shit.
Kentucky is an awful state full of awful people and awful Commonwealth laws

I hate that I was born here and I hate that Im stuck here until I save enough money to leave

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Jiek_Fafn
07/10/20 12:50:04 PM
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He may not have been a total shitbag, but maybe his shitbag actions should disqualify him from statue status here

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Gheb
07/10/20 4:25:16 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Cancel Culture doesn't really allow for redemption arcs.
I mean maybe he really did pull a 180 on his beliefs and legitimately came to truly consider black people to be to be true equals deserving of all the rights and privileges that any person could have. But did the reformed Forest actually do anything worth of celebration or busts?

No the reason he's up there was because he was a famed Confederate general.

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eston
07/10/20 4:26:28 PM
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nevershine
07/10/20 4:30:01 PM
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theyd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around

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Rebel_Patriot
07/10/20 4:53:30 PM
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JlM posted...
Im looking at some article because I wanted to get the Forrest Gump quote right. This is interesting :

Forrest would eventually grow disillusioned with the KKK and other white supremacist groups of the era and, after only a year of being Grand Wizard, attempted to dissolve the Klan and ordered that their robes be destroyed.

After publicly distancing himself from the Klan, Forrest came to the defence of the black community in August 1874, after four black men were arrested for defending themselves against lynch mob who attacked them at a BBQ.

Forrest then wrote to the then Tennessee Governor John C. Brown and offered to exterminate the white marauders who disgrace their race by this cowardly murder of Negroes"

Weird. It's rare someone just wakes up one day and is like "Whoa, maybe I should stop being a fucking shithead".


More people need need to wake up and denounce the Democrat party just like Forrest did

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