Confederate Dunce: Alabama Lawmaker Who Honored KKK Grand Wizard Instead of John Lewis Resigns--as Pa

[sheshe2]

Confederate Dunce: Alabama Lawmaker Who Honored KKK Grand Wizard Instead of John Lewis Resigns—as Pastor

It takes a staunch commitment to racist foolishness to celebrate the life of a Confederate general and Klan figurehead in 2020. To do so on the very same weekend, in the very same city that civil rights icon John Lewis was being honored? How much harder can you stan Jim Crow?


But that is exactly what Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes did—attending a ceremony honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, the KKK’s first grand wizard, in Selma, Ala., on the weekend a carriage carrying Lewis’ body came into town, reports The Washington Post. The procession honoring the longtime Georgia congressman traced the path Lewis walked in 1965, when he led protesters on a march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.

But why honor one of America’s actual founding fathers when you can (checks notes) honor a racist, slave-owning terrorist?

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Man, if Jesus wasn’t weeping before, he sure has to be now.

More: https://www.theroot.com/confederate-dunce-alabama-lawmaker-who-honored-kkk-gra-1844563094

[bobbieinok]

1. I saw Dismukes had done that. It was at 'Forest's birthday celebration' that a woman holds every yr

IIRC I read about it on a blog AL.com.

The 'celebration' was at about the same time Lewis' casket was going over the bridge.

The woman, I believe, is a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She apparently holds this birthaday celebration every yr and usually has some 'cute pickaninni feature with watermelon'

[sheshe2]

3. Jesus wept.

[bobbieinok]

2. He blames 'anti-southern culture' and people being 'sensitive' WOW

He really needs to get out of his bubble