It's Time to Separate the South From the Confederacy
By Becca Andrews
Sat Aug. 22, 2015 9:00 AM EDT
On Wednesday, the Memphis City Council cast its final vote to remove a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest from a downtown park ... The statue tops a concrete burial vault that houses the remains of Forrest and his wife. The memorial has stood in Health Sciences Park (formerly Forrest Park) since 1905, when, 28 years after Forrest's death, a group of wealthy, white Memphians dug up the general and his wife and entombed them in a vault beneath this statue in downtown Memphis ... In the aftermath of the Charleston massacre .. the Memphis City Council voted to remove the statue and return the remains to Elmwood Cemetery, where Forrest was originally buried in accordance with his will. Surprisingly, much of the indignant outcry has surrounded the idea of moving the remains ...I love where I came from ... I do not love the Confederacy, and I do not stand for its murderous agenda or its skewed racial hierarchy ...
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