Good Riddance, Fallen Wizard

[kpete]

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate General and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

For the past 23 years, the monument to Forrest was right there off I-65 near Nashville for all to see. Thousands of cars passed by the hard-to-miss statue every single day.

The late Jack Kershaw sculpted the 25-foot statue in 1998 and it was placed on Dorris’ land surrounded by Confederate flags. It was vandalized several times over the years, including a dousing with pink paint which Dorris decided to leave on the statue.


https://www.newschannel5.com/news/nathan-bedford-forrest-statue-along-i-65-being-removed-after-more-than-2-decades

[Celerity]

1. In before the statue and Confederate defenders start up with their usual bollocks

Yes, that is an actual thing here.



So glad to see these Johnny Reb tributes removed.

[ForgedCrank]

4. I'm more of a fan of preserving them in

a museum type setting with proper context so people are never able to forget what was done, and by whom.
But, this will work too. It's far better than just leaving it there.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Good Riddance to BAD Rubbish

That was truly one of the most ugliest statues ever made. To think it was made in 1998 was news to me. I think Jack Kershaw made a bad mistake with this one!

Edit to add:

John Karl Kershaw (October 12, 1913 – September 7, 2010) was an American attorney best known for challenging the official account of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, claiming that his client James Earl Ray was an unwitting participant in a ploy devised by a mystery man named Raul to kill the civil rights leader.

Kershaw was also a member of The General Joseph E. Johnston Camp 28 Sons of Confederate Veterans and a Southern secessionist and segregationist who helped found the League of the South.

In 1998, Kershaw sculpted a Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue that has drawn wide criticism and mockery by national media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kershaw

So, ole Jack was also racist AF.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Not a fan of vandalism, but if you're gonna...good target...

[Shrike47]

5. Poor horse.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. As I racked my brain trying to recall where this thing was located

I realized it wasn't there until 15 years after I moved away from Nashville.

Seriously it's about time stuff like this is removed.

SOME of these things should be moved to a museum or placed in an appropriate cemetary. There are plenty of those to go around.

One this absolutely Fugly should be removed for violation of the rules of art if for no other reason.

[kwolf68]

7. Hold on

But they were not fighting for the preservation of slavery?

That's what the "anti-CRT" folks want, total revisionism of history and the returning of these treasonous maggot statues to the center of town hall.

I think these people had their 15 minutes of fame, either raise money privately and open up your own Confed museum where you can install these statues or we can just haul them to the landfill

[Lars39]

8. Ha!

Can’t count the number of times I gave the finger to that ugly damn thing.