1 of 1- Just Fred
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Yeah, That Will Teach 'em
Can you believe this?
The city of Memphis could lose a quarter-million dollars as punishment for removing statues of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Confederate President Jefferson Davis last year.
The Tennessee House of Representatives voted Tuesday to strip the money from next year's state budget. The sum had been earmarked to go toward planning for Memphis' bicentennial celebrations next year.
As NPR's Laurel Wamsley reported, the statues were removed last December after the city found a legal loophole. It sold two of its city parks – one with a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the other featuring a statue of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest on horseback — for $1,000 each.
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Re: Yeah, That Will Teach 'em
So, the state wants to punish a city for what they choose to do about statues?
I smell the party of freedom and limited government at work.
BTW,,,,,,,,
In what has been called "one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history," troops under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest massacred Union troops who had surrendered, most of them black soldiers, along with some white Southerners (Tennesseans) fighting for the Union, at the Battle of Fort Pillow.
Last edited by Goose (4/18/2018 3:36 pm)
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.