What the Confederate lovers fail to get is that claiming to be both a patriotic American and a supporter of Confederate history is oxymoronic. In waging war upon the United States the Confederates became a nation of traitors.
In spite of all the crap the racist Johnny Reb lovers dish out the war was about one thing and one thing only: Slavery.
All this crap about honoring the past is akin to the Germans putting up Hitler statues.
The traitors lost they need to get the fuck over it. They got their asses kicked royally by a bunch of Yankees. We should have national holidays honoring John Brown, Ulysses S. Grant and General Sherman.
There should celebrations of the Emancipation Proclamation that equal the Fourth of July.
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/08/kkk-rallying-thousands-after-memphis-parks-drop-confederate-names/
By David Edwards
Friday, February 8, 2013
A Ku Klux Klan leader named Edward, who goes by the title “KKK Exalted Cyclops,” is promising the “largest” rally in Memphis history after the city decided to remove Confederate names from three parks.
In an 9-0 vote on Tuesday night, the Memphis City Council approved temporary names for three Confederate-themed parks. Forest Park will become “Health Sciences Park,” Confederate Park will be called “Memphis Park” and Jefferson Davis Park will get the name “Mississippi River Park.”
On Thursday, the KKK Exalted Cyclops told WMC-TV that his group had started planning its response before the City Council even voted.
“You’re going to see the largest rally Memphis, Tennessee has ever seen,” he promised. “It’s not going to be 20 or 30, it’s going to be thousands of Klansmen from the whole United States coming to Memphis, Tennessee.”
The KKK’s rally is expected to be held in the newly-renamed “Health Sciences Park.” Confederate Army lieutenant general Nathan Bedford Forrest, for whom the park was originally named, was elected to the post of KKK grand wizard after returning from the war.
The Memphis City Council acted quickly to change the park names because two state lawmakers have proposed the “Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2013,” which would prevent local governments from changing the name of any “statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, plaque, historic flag display, school, street, bridge,building, park preserve, or reserve which has been erected for, or named or dedicated in honor of, any historical military figure, historical military event, military organization, or military unit.”
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