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MadLinguist

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3. He was incompetant as a general. Getting your troops massacred makes you a horrible general

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 19, 2021, 02:15 PM

Mar 2021

In addition to being a terrorist promoting white supremacy. So there is literally nothing to honor about this dude.
The bronze bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, and founder of the nation's first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, was installed in the Tennessee State Capitol in 1978. NINETEEN Seventy Eight! And look how long it took to get a vote to remove this monstrosity

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Legislature Cancel Cultures Hist. Comm. For Crime Of Canceling Klan Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2021 OP

Suck it up, Tenneessee Buttercups... ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2021 #1

Forrest may have been the best general on either side of the war, but... TreasonousBastard Mar 2021 #2

He was incompetant as a general. Getting your troops massacred makes you a horrible general MadLinguist Mar 2021 #3

and for the record feckless Guv Bill Lee refused to even consider removing the bust MadLinguist Mar 2021 #4