AliHajiSheik
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Maybe they should name it after the late Senator: Robert C Byrd High School
Stumped for an answer, huh? Or just too lazy to look up the information yourself. Why should I do your research for you? Hell, you can just look at the link I posted on Fort Pillow to find out what happened there. Or is that too much work?
The guy was a scumbag; a man who made his living buying and selling other human beings, then fought to destroy the union, murdered prisoners of war because they happened to be black, and finally capped everything off by founding the KKK. You guys sure know how to pick your heroes.
Lincoln wouldn't even be accepted as a Republican now. Way too radical for that outfit.
Nope. Not too much work at all. I love reading that kind of thing and have studied it for years. I am well familiar with Fort Pillow. YOU ARE NOT. If you were you wouldn't be making ignorant statements that you can't support. Forrest didn't murder POWs because they happened to be black. Prove it. Source it out to me or stay under the porch and yap like a little dog.
Forrest was NOT a founder of the KKK.
Recent histories agree that a massacre occurred: Richard Fuchs, author of An Unerring Fire, concludes, “The affair at Fort Pillow was simply an orgy of death, a mass lynching to satisfy the basest of conduct – intentional murder – for the vilest of reasons – racism and personal enmity.
Yeah, when the LIBERALS and MODERATES put a knife in the heart of CONSERVATIVE Southern racist hegemony ......
All good Republicans now. Or more probably Tea Party racists. The black girl? I'm guessing she's a Democrat who voted for Barack Obama.
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"I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
Nope. Not too much work at all. I love reading that kind of thing and have studied it for years. I am well familiar with Fort Pillow. YOU ARE NOT. If you were you wouldn't be making ignorant statements that you can't support. Forrest didn't murder POWs because they happened to be black. Prove it. Source it out to me or stay under the porch and yap like a little dog.
Forrest was NOT a founder of the KKK.
Wrong on both counts. He was as despicable a figure as ever to be 'honored' by part of this nation. A total scumbag from beginning to end. Deny Fort Pillow all you want. Black Union troops were murdered after they surrendered, and Forrest was responsible. You confederate wannabee's never give up, do you?
1. You folks have a REALLY hard time explaining why it would make sense for racist Southern Democrats in the 1960s to defect to the party that pushed for Civil rights and away from the Party that opposed it...2. The hard core racists stayed Democrat and pushed their ideology under the guise of "reproductive rights" knowing full well that the end result of their policy would be to suppress the population growth of the black minority which had, until that time, been growing far faster than the white population....
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From this link.
2) Forrest was not the founder of the KKK, but he was it's first Grand Dragon.
3) The only reason Forrest disbanded the Klan is because the Federal government was about to pass the Ku Klux Klan act, which would have removed habeus corpus for Klan members. Forrest was a dedicated terrorist.
Booth was either very confident or very careless. Although there had been numerous sightings of Forrest and his men in the area, the Union major airily reported that things were quiet for 30 or 40 miles around Fort Pillow. 'I think it perfectly safe,' he assured Maj. Gen. Stephen Hurlburt in Memphis. Furthermore, Booth believed that he could 'hold the post against any force for forty-eight hours.' Events would soon prove him wrong on both counts.
You confederate wannabee's never give up, do you?
1. It made sense to these politicians:
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