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The Cubic Lane – by Aiman Diaz
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. has called for the removal of the statue and remains of the Confederate General and once Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, from the city park.
The Mayor believes that Nathan Bedford Forrest wanted to be buried somewhere else in the beginning.
Wharton’s belief comes from Forrest’s own will and testament which states he wanted his self and wife to both be buried in Elmwood Cemetery.
The city created the Forrest Park in 1904 and moved the bodies to the park in the city.
Shortly after the Mayor’s announcement, the Memphis City Council returned with an approval of now moving the bodies back to Elmwood Cemetery.
In the wake of a flap about the Confederate battle flag throughout the South, the City of Memphis is considering removing from a public park not just a monument dedicated to Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, but also his grave.
A Memphis city council committee voted unanimously to approve ordinances to remove the statue — which depicts Forrest mounted on his horse — and the grave, according to The Commercial Appeal.
But the effort faces a number of hurdles before it can be approved. The statue ordinance requires approval from the Memphis City Council and the Tennessee Historical Commission. The grave moving requires approval from the council, a Tennessee court, and the Forrest family, the Commercial Appeal reported.
Since the shooting in Charleston, North Carolina last month, an intense debate around the confederate flag as well as other civil war monuments in the South has emerged.
Originally designed at the start of the Civil War, the battle flag was first raised by the Confederate army of northern Virginia.
But the Confederate flag — as it is known today — has always meant two different things to two different groups. It has reflected to many southern whites the symbol of heritage and pride and to many African-Americans a symbol of oppression.
The Confederate flag entered national politics in 1948, when it was adopted by a splinter group of southern Democrats, calling themselves “Dixiecrats” and opposing civil rights.
Decades later, the confederate flag, which is tied to white supremacist groups and the recent Charleston church shooting suspect Dylan Roof is forcing a new debate and conversation many say is long overdue.
wtf
The people of Memphis should vote to move the city council and mayor to China with the rest of the communists.
Let us not forgot, his wife is buried alongside him.
THIS IS NOT ONLY AN OUTRAGE, ITS ILLEGAL
Elmwood cemetery agreed to take the bodies but will NOT take the monument.