Nathan Forrest, a cavalryman for the Confederacy during the Civil War and one of the alleged founding members of the KKK reports say he was the hate groups first Grand Wizard could soon be blotted out from Memphis history.
Vigilante gravediggers in the Tennessee city have begun exhuming the corpse of the divisive historical figure, according to a report from the Daily Mail.
On Friday, the protesters broke ground on the exhumation but did not finish. However, they threatened to come back with a back hoe in order to pull Forrest from the soil.
If they make good on the threat, it will be the first time since 1904 that the body of Nathan Forrest was moved. He died in 1877, and made the move to Health Sciences Park close to three decades later.
The current site of Forrests grave also features a statue of him on a horse (pictured above), which the protesters also want removed from the city.
Memphis Mayor AC Wharton has been pushing for this since news of the tragic Charleston shootings broke, but its not something he can do without approval of other sections of government.
The protest group are calling themselves the Commission on Religion and Racism. They are led by Isaac Richmond, who had this to say in comments to WREG about the push to blot out Forrest from the city of Memphis.
If hes gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone. We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up . We are going to bring the back hoe, the tractors and the men with the equipment to raise Bedford [middle name] Forrest from the soil of Memphis.
Previously, a spokesperson for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Lee Miller, claiming to be speaking on behalf of the descendants of Nathan Forrest, had this to say.
The Forrest family is solidly opposed to digging up the graves and moving them any place. The statue just as well. Theyre opposed to moving the statue too. This appears to me to be another knee jerk reaction to that anti-Confederate hysteria. Some people here are trying to get on the bandwagon in erasing Confederate history and its just wrong.
Mayor Wharton, however, tells a different story, pointing out that Forrest never wanted to be buried where his remains are currently located. He said Forrests will expressly states that Forrest wished for him and his wife to be buried at Elmwood Cemetery.
Elmwood Cemetery was where the remains of Forrest and his wife were located prior to the 1904 move. Caretakers at Elmwood Cemetery have stated they would take the remains of Nathan Forrest and his wife back, but they will not take the statue.
Based on any revelation of your past "white supremacy" leanings and strong association with Pat Buchanan, expect the same of your earthly remains, Mr. Self-Loathing, Guilt-Ridden White Boy.
Buchanan wasn't a white supremecist, you stupid pinhead.
But...but...ALL whites are considered "supremacists." AND "privileged." AND oppressors" who keep the black man down. That includes you and I...and especially Pat Buchanan. Don't you stay up on your SPLC training manual?
are you forgetting that his Reform Party running mate was Ezola Foster?
How can we forget? Paddy Boy's eccentricities are legend. For a guy who wrote, 'Death of the West,' he didn't seem to embrace his own credo or trends.
These A Holes, and the A Hole mayor of Memphis are ignorant.
Naaah. They ALL know exactly what they are doing: Lighting fuses and hoping to start CWII. Grave-digging doesn't seem to bother Marxists/MSM dreck. This is outrageous. When did we become Zimbabwe?
The Memphis mayor and his minions of ghouls are just following orders. Leading this Cult of Hatred are Holder, 0blabla, the media, the academe and the SPLC. We are watching the future unfold before our very eyes: Whitey, Christians, Conservatives, and America --left unchecked -- will be "necklaced" by these anarchists and disciples of Saul Alinsky, sanctioned by the Left's heroes.
The clinically insane don't care whether the entire planet blows up into a million pieces. Just as long as their Cult of Sadomasochism and Hate is satisfied.
These Marxist-fascist Dems and anarchists are NO different than radical Muzzies.
When Lincoln referred to Mexicans and Indians as mongrels, he was just being a man of the times.
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3, Page 236.
Fifth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, at Galesburg, Illinois, October 7, 1858
[Lincoln] When we shall get Mexico, I don't know whether the Judge will be in favor of the Mexican people that we get with it settling that question for themselves and all others; because we know the Judge has a great horror for mongrels, [laughter,] and I understand that the people of Mexico are most decidedly a race of mongrels.
"On blacks, immigrants and indigents: "...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people On sterilization & racial purification: Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.
On the right of married couples to bear children: Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932
On the purpose of birth control: The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)
On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities: "More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12
On the extermination of blacks: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)"