Nathan Bedford Forrest Body Being Removed from Health Sciences Park, Memphis
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Workmen remove a pedestal that once held a statue of a controversial Confederate general and early member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest. The statue, which was removed in December 2017, stands over his grave in Health Sciences Park in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. June 1, 2021. The remains of Forrest and his wife, below the base, will be moved to Columbia, Tennessee. The crew was hired by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. There is a Black Lives Matter sidewalk mural around the monument. Becky Muska of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was nearby observing and she explained a bit about the history of the statue.
You do not disrespect graves,NO MATTER WHO IT IS ,PERIOD!! BLM YOUR HAST WILL BE YOUR DEMISE !!
Such a disgrace to the history of the city of Memphis and the state of Tennessee. May the General and his wife finally Rest In Peace. Maybe y’all should name the potholes on the horrible streets of Memphis after confederate generals so the oppressed peoples would remove them too. Or maybe the 1-40 bridge that’s now closed due to derelict democrat failure to maintain infrastructure instead of lining their pockets with the revenue collected from its hard working residents. What a disgusting and disgraceful act to exhume a corpse, any corpse, no matter the status of the living being they were, and disturb their final sleep for nothing more than a political pandering and scam to its blind followers.
Are they digging up his actual bones? Crazy
Yes, they moved his body
@@karenpulferfocht-vids Good, then dump it in a river somewhere.
@@TheJimtanker Your hatred for the south shows.
@@countryman4691 No, just of seditious traitors. There are plenty of fine people in the south, the rest are racist trash.
@@TheJimtanker put his ashes bag in a museum and have a sign next to it that says “spit in here”
Are they moving him to a military 🎖️🎖️🎖️ base for
Security
from rioting black asses?
I cannot watch this travesty. shutting it off
Love him or hate him General Forrest has 30 confirmed combat kills. Total badass. 29 horses shot out from under him. Multiple gunshot wounds.
I’ve read it was 31 men and 30 horses shot out from under him, including one with a cannonball, Forrest is a man of mythical proportions
@@calebhowell7008 I heard he fought in a war to preserve slavery. And lost.....
So he became the first KKK Grand Wizard.
What is the point? He's way past being able to do anything or recruit people for the kkk.
You didn't do your homework. Later in life Nathan Bedford Forrest became an advocate for the black community.
In 1875, Forrest was invited to address a meeting of the Independent Order of Pole Bearers, an early black civil rights organization in Memphis, at its Fourth of July barbecue. He said "Ladies and Gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the Southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. (Immense applause and laughter.) I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations and shall do all in my power to elevate every man, to depress none......I want you to come nearer to us. When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict."
When Forrest's cavalry surrendered in May 1865, sixty-five blacks were on Forrest's muster role, including eight in Forrest's Escort, the general's handpicked elite inner circle. Commenting on the performance of his black soldiers, Forrest said: "Finer Confederates never fought."
"Forrest detractors allege that the Confederate general was the "founder of the KKK." This is factually incorrect. The 19th century Ku Klos Knights was founded as a fraternal organization on Dec. 24, 1865, in Pulaski by Thomas M. Jones, a Giles County judge; Frank O. McCord, publisher of the Pulaski newspaper; and four other Confederate veterans." When Forrest died in 1877, Memphis newspapers reported that his funeral procession was over two miles long. The throng of mourners was estimated to include over 3,000 black citizens of Memphis.
You should have done your homework before making a dumb uninformed comment.
@@MH-zg5yw My point was, if you would bother to read my comment, that he is no longer ALIVE to take ANY side in an argument anymore. But you just had an agenda so you blathered on about something that most of us already knew but that you just discovered; trying to pass off as being educated. Go bother someone else with your snide crap.
@@christhornton1785 That is not what you wrote. You wrote "He's way past being able to do anything or recruit people for the kkk." You clearly tossed in the KKK reference for emphasis. The only agenda I have is to highlight your stupidity.
The battle of Fort pillow was all I needed to know about Nathan Bedford Forest. Knowing what he did in that battle. Makes me wonder how he ever got a statute.
@Alejandro Daniel Antunez Mena You’re wrong. He ordered the massacre of northern troops white and black. After they wave the white flag. I live right by Fort pillow. I go camping there every year
Like her mosquito hat
Thanks, works great!
Good glad to hear this!!!
I bet you are!
@@travisdozier1357 I am 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@JOE-THE-RETARD BIDEN just face it you’re on the racist dead mans side?
@@6foot3Gladiator I have reason to believe even if it wasn’t the racist dead mans side, any side other than yours would be viewed by you as to be racist!
@@travisdozier1357 nah! Even my white friends see this sick stuff the racist people are doing in this era! They know what’s up
People born after the discovery of electricity, should not be casting their modern morals into a preelectrical agricultural age.
This kind of behavior being systemic in the Democratic Party, shows us their post electric age privilege.
So do you think Nathan Bedford Forrest is worthy of worship ?
@@guidototh6453 What you talkin about Willis. Nah I'm on the other side. 5th Illinois cavalry, my ancestors Rode from Springfield, Illinois to Juneteenth in Texas.
Freeing slaves, and making Sherman bow ties out of railroad tracks in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the Lone Star State.
Some of the able-bodied male slaves that were freed became calvarymen theirselves. When they were formed into the 3rd US Calvary colored. Real History is much more interesting than that 1619 crap.
@@ringogringo814 Real history shows us that these statues were erected in large part in the Jim Crow era to celebrate the Confederacy and to remind Southern blacks that they were still not free. Put Forrest's statue in a museum and replace it with someone all Memphis citizens can celebrate.
@@guidototh6453 exactly that's when the Democrats had all those klan members in the House of Representatives. Real historians leave history like they found it.
@@ringogringo814 Southern racists conservative Democrats who then fled the party to become Republicans after the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Johnson knew they would flee, Nixon was happy to welcome them.
To be honest I didn't know that S.O.B. was buried over there. I am glad he and his (Garden Tool) are no longer there in that nice park. LMBO
It’s the ignorant people like yourself we have now a days…. Sad
@@APEntertainment he’s ignorant for not supporting a grey back traitor? You need your priorities checked buddy
Americans, What are you doing? Are you going to rewrite your history?
Apparently so. Sad days here in America.
Nobody is rewriting history. Removing a statue that celebrates seditious traitors doesn’t erase anything, they were still seditious traitors.
@@TheJimtanker Letting history finally prove what criminals these people really were instead of honoring them with statues.
Props to Van Turner! ✊🏽💯
Nope! He’s a criminal who has no respect for the dead. He and the rest of BLM need to leave the USA. We don’t want them here. What’s going to happen is memphis will become more of a ghetto and we the people will n out be helping the city financially so enjoy more poverty 😀
Peace to all. "They want to tear down all of history". No only the ones involved in innocent bloodshed massacres like Fort Pillow. Lol, an early member is a nice way of saying the 1st grand wizard 😳🤔🤣😂. Way to keep up with tradition 🤣. Peace
Also the “history” is a false one constructed decades after they lost the war.