On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location.
The body of Forrest’s wife will be exhumed as well.
According to Local Memphis, the council voted to exhume Forrest’s remains from Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue. They plan to sell a statue of Forrest as well–they are thinking of “selling the statue to anyone who wants it.”
Anyone want to buy a statue?
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In an attempt to rid our country of anything that smacks of racism against Blacks, I guess we need to blow up Mount Rushmore? Implode the Washington Monument? Tear down the Jefferson Memorial? Go to Gettysburg and tear down any signs that tell of a Confederate victory?
Remove and burn any "Gone With The Wind" books or DVD's in every library? (I heard that someone actually wants to do this.)
Meanwhile, there is a "challenge" on Face Book for Blacks to post pictures of themselves wiping their bottoms with the American flag. I won't post any of those photos because they truly are disgusting.
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My ancestor's came to America, some at a very young age--leaving their parents and family behind. When they got here, some were indentured servants or farm workers--working hard for other, rich people. Life was not easy, but they realized that America was the place to be to have a better life. I do believe my ancestor would have been overjoyed to have been given, "40 acres and a mule", back in 1865.
Instead, he had to work off his debt and then start to find a way to make his own living. So he went to work for someone who would pay him. Little by little. Inch by inch--they all found their way and ended up being land barons in their own right.
Maybe some descendants of people from Africa could be happy that their ancestor's ended up in America too? Look at the lives they have now--good paying jobs in the factories--lawyers, doctors, educators. Yes, many were brought here against their will, and many were trapped by the "catchers", people in their own tribe, and sold to the slave ship owners.
The early Chinese, who worked so hard to build our railroads. Some of them were brought here by captors, treated like animals and yet, by their ingenuity, they were the only ones who figured out how to get tunnels through the mountains, using only pick-axes and shovels.
What about the Japanese who were put into the internment camps. While they were held captive, they couldn't pay the property taxes on their land in Napa Valley, so the government took their land, and they had to start all over again.
The Irish, the Italians, the Jews--all were scorned, beaten and hanged because of their race.
I do not hear any of them whining about their mistreatment. Most of them are thriving.
That was a long time ago. Can't the descendants put all that anger away and be grateful that they are here now?
You can be a slave, no matter what color you are. IF it is in your will to make a better life for the next generation, you can do it--even if you are beaten down, time and time again. Racism isn't only directed toward Blacks.
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In my opinion, American owes nothing to any race, except the Native Americans. We came onto their Continent and kept pushing them further and further west. Our government made treaties with them and then broke those treaties when we wanted to expand further west.
Then we "gave" them acres of land for their own. Land where you couldn't hardly grow a weed, let alone anything decent to eat. We killed their food supply and we forced their children to learn the white way and tried to take their native ways from them.
They too have survived. They figured out how to beat the government. Their land, given to them, is Tribal land, governed by them, not State or Federal Law. They have their own council and their own police force. Now their Casinos bring in a good profit to help the Tribes.
I've never been a bigot in my life, but when I see the disrespect, the continual whining, the killings of Black on Black, AND the total disregard (from the higher ups) when a White person is killed by a Black--well let's just say, I am becoming very angry.
I blame the man in the White House and his cronies. He/they had an opportunity to bring us all together, in unity because we are all Americans, and he/they chose to make everything worse. You keep on telling a people how under privileged they are and they are going to act that way. Keep telling them that America "owes" them and they will believe it. Keep telling them they are treated unfairly, and you are going to incite them to protests and riots.
Every race needs to be empowered, but not at the expense of any other race.
Just because some mentally, deranged kid decided to wrap himself in the Stars and Bars and kill innocent people? Tearing down flags, digging up corpses, isn't going to change a thing!
Remove and burn any "Gone With The Wind" books or DVD's in every library? (I heard that someone actually wants to do this.)
Meanwhile, there is a "challenge" on Face Book for Blacks to post pictures of themselves wiping their bottoms with the American flag. I won't post any of those photos because they truly are disgusting.
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My ancestor's came to America, some at a very young age--leaving their parents and family behind. When they got here, some were indentured servants or farm workers--working hard for other, rich people. Life was not easy, but they realized that America was the place to be to have a better life. I do believe my ancestor would have been overjoyed to have been given, "40 acres and a mule", back in 1865.
Instead, he had to work off his debt and then start to find a way to make his own living. So he went to work for someone who would pay him. Little by little. Inch by inch--they all found their way and ended up being land barons in their own right.
Maybe some descendants of people from Africa could be happy that their ancestor's ended up in America too? Look at the lives they have now--good paying jobs in the factories--lawyers, doctors, educators. Yes, many were brought here against their will, and many were trapped by the "catchers", people in their own tribe, and sold to the slave ship owners.
The early Chinese, who worked so hard to build our railroads. Some of them were brought here by captors, treated like animals and yet, by their ingenuity, they were the only ones who figured out how to get tunnels through the mountains, using only pick-axes and shovels.
What about the Japanese who were put into the internment camps. While they were held captive, they couldn't pay the property taxes on their land in Napa Valley, so the government took their land, and they had to start all over again.
The Irish, the Italians, the Jews--all were scorned, beaten and hanged because of their race.
I do not hear any of them whining about their mistreatment. Most of them are thriving.
That was a long time ago. Can't the descendants put all that anger away and be grateful that they are here now?
You can be a slave, no matter what color you are. IF it is in your will to make a better life for the next generation, you can do it--even if you are beaten down, time and time again. Racism isn't only directed toward Blacks.
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In my opinion, American owes nothing to any race, except the Native Americans. We came onto their Continent and kept pushing them further and further west. Our government made treaties with them and then broke those treaties when we wanted to expand further west.
Then we "gave" them acres of land for their own. Land where you couldn't hardly grow a weed, let alone anything decent to eat. We killed their food supply and we forced their children to learn the white way and tried to take their native ways from them.
They too have survived. They figured out how to beat the government. Their land, given to them, is Tribal land, governed by them, not State or Federal Law. They have their own council and their own police force. Now their Casinos bring in a good profit to help the Tribes.
I've never been a bigot in my life, but when I see the disrespect, the continual whining, the killings of Black on Black, AND the total disregard (from the higher ups) when a White person is killed by a Black--well let's just say, I am becoming very angry.
I blame the man in the White House and his cronies. He/they had an opportunity to bring us all together, in unity because we are all Americans, and he/they chose to make everything worse. You keep on telling a people how under privileged they are and they are going to act that way. Keep telling them that America "owes" them and they will believe it. Keep telling them they are treated unfairly, and you are going to incite them to protests and riots.
Every race needs to be empowered, but not at the expense of any other race.
Just because some mentally, deranged kid decided to wrap himself in the Stars and Bars and kill innocent people? Tearing down flags, digging up corpses, isn't going to change a thing!
