Miss. License Plate Proposed To Honor KKK Leader
Greg Stewart, a member of the Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, displays a sample of the latest Civil War sesquicentennial tag that is being sold, left, adjacent to the current tag in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
The Massacre Of Fort Pillow
General Nathan Bedford Forrest MURDERS Union Soldiers That Had Surrendered
The Battle of Fort Pillow, known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, particularly in the North, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with a massacre of surrendered Federal African-American troops by soldiers under the command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded, "Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history."
Dear Clear Minded White Folks In Mississippi Who Have POWER In The Government:
I try!!
I try really hard to keep Black folks who have a proclivity to focus on your state and its horrid past o instead key in upon what is going on within our own community today. I make note that they have a better chance of changing what they have control over though struggle is more favorable to them.
But YOU ALL CAN'T HELP YOURSELVES down there. For all of your claims about independence from government - WHY do you need to have "your boy" affirmed by a license plate distributed from the GOVERNMENT?
Dear "Democrats who are Black" In Mississippi -
Please "holla at your boy":
Democratic Rep. Willie Bailey, who handles license plate requests in the House, said he has no problem with SCV seeking any design it wants.
"If they want a tag commemorating veterans of the Confederacy, I don't have a problem with it," said Bailey, who is black. "They have that right. We'll look at it. As long as it's not offensive to anybody, then they have the same rights as anybody else has"
1 comments:
The general hate people have for Mississippi's past is only bested by their ignorance. Would you read German papers after the invasion of Poland and take their stories as indisputable fact? Clearly you would. The Victor always writes the history and always writes to their advantage. Read the rest of the article from Wiki, Forrest offered reasonable surrender terms, the officer of the fort refused to surrender, "they" being the white officers choose to fight to the death, they never lowered the flag and some fought all the way back to the landing so half the men in blue died, I call that stupidity and war. I suppose war should be fair but by its very nature is never fair and the innocent suffer most. By the by Forest left the kkk when they turned violent. Finally chomp on this from wiki "In 1875, Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation, called the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association. At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a "friendly speech"[7] during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radically progressive (for the time) agenda of equality and harmony between black and white Americans." Sorry to sully the hate you have for Forest and Mississippi but he and the state are by no means evil incarnate, nor are the clear or unclear minded white folks in Mississippi. But you're free to continue hating in ignorance, it’s your right.
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