Earlier today the Sons of Confederate Veterans reinterred the remains of Confederate general...

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[pwb]

1. There must be tens of people there.

Why here?

[hlthe2b]

2. Uggh. That is sickening.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Why were his remains out and about? Nt

[demmiblue]

4. Found this article from June:

A Confederate General's Remains Are Being Moved Out Of Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's polarizing presence has hung over Memphis since he moved here in 1852 — his legacy cemented by a giant statue that loomed over all who passed his gravesite in a popular park.

Defenders considered him a hero for his Civil War exploits. Detractors called him a violent racist and noted his early leadership role in the Ku Klux Klan.

Now the former slave trader's remains are set to be moved to a new Confederate museum in Columbia, Tennessee — another milestone in the effort to remove statues, monuments, and now the remains, of Confederate leaders from public spaces.

...

Gradually, Forrest's legacy has been dismantled in Memphis. Forrest traded slaves near the area where people of many races now come to eat, drink and watch ball games downtown. A short drive away is the old Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Many in majority-Black Memphis are eager to see Forrest gone. The park where his grave was located has been the site of protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement. A music festival for Juneteenth, which marks the end of American slavery, is scheduled there this weekend.

"It's like a burden has been lifted," said Van D. Turner, a Black county commissioner who pushed for the Forrest statue removal. "It just gives us breath."

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008371491/confederate-general-remains-memphis-moved

[XanaDUer2]

9. Thank you

such an odd parade of people.

I'm not Southern, but live in NC . I like visiting historic cemeteries. I did run into a group of United Daughters of the Confederacy, having some type of memorial service near a cenotaph of some sort. I didn't go near them. Fascinating

[struggle4progress]

5. Good question! A stake through his heart might be a wise precaution

[malaise]

6. Which century are we in again?

Asking for a friend

[madaboutharry]

7. Ridiculous people.

They should have just gone ahead and worn their hoods.

[hibbing]

8. These are some of the very fine people right? n/t

[gratuitous]

10. "1st to Secede 2nd to None" - Anyone want to tell that loser the order of finish from the Civil War?

[Hobo]

11. They dug them up in June

And they are just replanting them now?

Odd.

Hobo

[Retrograde]

12. Nice to see the pallbearers dressed for the occasion

wearing their best jeans and vests. And if I were one of those women I'd hide my face as well. If they want to bury him again, that's their call - better than having a decayed body just lying around, I suppose.

[Mysterian]

13. Well, isn't that special!

Folks who like dressing up.....especially white robes.

[Hoyt]

14. We'll see the rubes again tomorrow in Washington.

[Hugin]

16. Other than appallingbearers and a few portobellum mushrooms, the crowd seems sparse...

and white.

You'd think on a day where thousands of Americans are dying of a preventable disease they'd have other priorities.