The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Why didn't he proclaim his disgust with NBF, and his shame that Tennessee officially reveres him?

Monday is "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day."

A very effective and devoted Confederate and a founder of the KKK in Reconstruction days, a terrorist organization devoted to the political exclusion and social and economic subjection of the freedmen and the defeat of Reconstruction.

No one could have forced the governor to issue a proclamation or punished him if he had chosen not to and, in any case, it is certain he did not have to issue a celebratory one, or a cowardly one.

That bust belongs in a museum like a bust of Hitler belongs in a Holocaust Museum, memorializing him as an object of obloquy and horror.

Southern whites still don't get it; southern whites refuse to get it.

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