Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Honors KKK Grand Wizard With Proclamation

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Despite public outcry, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) re-signed a proclamation Thursday declaring July 13 as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in the state, honoring the Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and former Confederate general.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-honors-kkk-grand-wizard-with-proclamation/ar-AAEfhQ5?ocid=spartanntp

[marble falls]

1. Thats just not going to stand, he's got to be positioning for a Senate run.

[Polybius]

5. It's TN

Unfortunately it stands.

[Mc Mike]

2. A republican honors the klan, eh?

That's odd because of how the republicans claim the Dems are the party of the klan, lincoln freed the slaves, and Robert Byrd was the most terrible klansman ever.

[Docreed2003]

3. Unfuckingbelievable

And everyone around us thinks Lee is "such a good man"...smdh

[Dirty Socialist]

4. Actually

Forrest gave a contrite speech to the Pole-Bearers Society (the predecessor to the NAACP) in 1873. I still wouldn’t give him a holiday, but he eventually ended up not being so bad.

[Generic Other]

7. He was responsible for the massacre of African American troops

Massacre of Fort Pillow. After the troops surrendered. You do not start here and end up not so bad. Sorry. That is outright bullshit.

[lame54]

9. But Tom Hanks was named after him

[Dirty Socialist]

13. I accept his apology

But I wish he would have had to apologize from prison.

[dalton99a]

14. He met with them near the end of his life - and there was no apology:

(Memphis Daily Appeal, July 6, 1875)

[rockfordfile]

6. A republican traitor honors another traitor

[lame54]

8. Where are you Dolly Parton?

[lame54]

10. Was Tom Hanks there?

[moondust]

11. What century is this again?

I keep forgetting.

[struggle4progress]

12. Whereas I don't intend to offend the white supremacist neo-confederate trash

that sometimes slinks around various parts of our state of Tennessee; and

Whereas I can say the statutes of Tennessee require me as governor to issue a proclamation every year recognizing this KKK grand wizard; and

Whereas I am a gutless wonder with a big yellow stripe down my back;

I am therefore not issuing a proclamation that actually tells the truth about Nathan Bedford Forrest but will instead issue a different proclamation that claims we should remember this loser as a military genius

https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/40d5caf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/701x954+0+0/resize/701x954!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fewscripps.brightspotcdn.com%2F57%2Ff3%2Fdda7418f404ab17831f2e0dc87d9%2Fproclamation.png

[Duppers]

15. Also posted here...

Spanone's thread...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212270991

Tennessee is marching backwards, was better than this 40yrs ago. What happened?