Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has come under fire for failing to condemn efforts by the state’s Sons of Confederate Veterans to institute a license plate commemorating Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Historically, Forrest has been both hailed for his military brilliance and condemned for his brutality both during and after the Civil War. The general infamously slaughtered black Union troops that surrendered at Fort Pillow Tennessee in 1864 and became a Grand Wizard in the KKK after the war ended.
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The Sons of Confederate Veterans, meanwhile, say that the license plate is meant to commemorate those who lost their lives in the war and that a number of black soldiers served under the general during his command.
Those words apparently aren’t doing much to console members of the NAACP, however, who argue that Forrest should be counted among terrorists like Osama bin Laden for his heavy involvement in the KKK.
Mississippi currently offers a license plate to commemorate the Civil War, and funds from those plates go toward maintaining the state’s collection of Confederate battle flags and restoring Beauvoir – the final home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The current plate features the estate, while future designs include everything from the Battle of Corinth to the Siege of Vicksburg. The Forrest commemorative license plate is slated to debut in 2014.
Governor Barbour, meanwhile, says that he isn’t interest in denouncing people or the license plate proposal, even though he feels there’s little chance of the plate making its way into production.
First of all let’s get staight to the solution of this on going problem, the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA should be told it’s time to hold a contest allowing the citizens of Missisippi to design a new flag. This would show a commitment to changing the image of the one state that has done more damage for racsim then all the other 49 put together.It’s amazing that a country that claims to be so intelligent plays so dumb. By allowing the flag to become attached to vehicles license plates, is a strategic way to have the most famous “KKK LOGO and its 1st GRAND WIZARD” to now be seen not just over all the state but all over the country. This is a feel good pill for the KKK and all that will support it. The name PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA still have many shocked colorless. Let’s start a movement to not only abolish “tags to start the next civil war” but to also re-introduce the ” New Missippi Flag”. The history books that have diluted mines in uncountable numbers of all colors and races, so now we are to pretend this is not a ploy to remind all who “strong armed” this country from the NATIVE AMERICANS not INDIANS (name given by Columbus when it was thought he had landed in India, another ex: of a dumb ass).Later is too lete, now is the time to make the wrong right. Didn’t the South loose the war they want to honor this “Grand Master General” for?