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.