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User Details are only visible to members.	They could build a nice shopping center or office complex over them...
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User Details are only visible to members.	OK Bobbi so I guess you want all the Battlefield sites destroyed too??
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User Details are only visible to members.	The sooner we can erase the confederacy from our public lands, the better. As always, I maintain that all confederate officers should be stripped of their glory, stripped from the history books as anything but traitors and known only for their defense of the institutional of slavery. If as Vacp has pointed out a confederate officer joined the confederacy for only the reason of loyalty to a state... They are a traitor, employed in the defense of slavery. It doesn't matter what other reasons they held for rebellion... They defended slavery and that ought destroy or nullify all other reasons.
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User Details are only visible to members.	"It's not going to be 20 or 30," Edward said. "It's going to be thousands.." Maybe 20 klansmen, plus thousands of anti-klan protestors. The cops will then shoo away the klan for their own protection.
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User Details are only visible to members.	"Forrest Park... contains the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry leader who traded slaves before the war and went on to become the first grand wizard of the Ku ..." One bad idea leads to another.
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User Details are only visible to members.	The renaming of three Confederate-themed parks in Memphis has spurred foes — including a purported Ku Klux Klan leader known as the “Exalted Cyclops” — to lash out against what they say are attempts to erase history. Others, however, maintain such symbols and monuments represent racism and have to go. The Memphis City Council, fearful of intervention by state legislators, voted late Tuesday to approve changing the name of Forrest Park to Health Sciences Park. Confederate Park became Memphis Park and and Jefferson Davis Park, named for the president of the Confederacy, was renamed Mississippi River Park. The vote was 9-0 – seven African-American council members and two white council members voted for the changes -- with three council members abstaining and one council member absent. Forrest Park for years has stirred up emotions. It contains the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry leader who traded slaves before the war and went on to become the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, the infamous hate group that carried out a merciless campaign of lynchings, church fires and other terror against African Americans as well as other immigrant groups. The honoring of Confederate heroes and emblems — such as the flying of the Confederate flag — has been a divisive issue in the South for years, so the Memphis vote surely doesn’t end the debate. “They’re trying to get rid of history. They’re trying to rewrite it,” Katherine Blalock told the Appeal after the vote. And in an interview with WMC-TV, a man calling himself a KKK leader known as the “Exalted Cyclops” -- he refused to reveal his true identify and said to call him “Edward” -- said he was calling all fellow klansmen to join him in the “largest rally Memphis, Tennessee had ever seen.” He said they would rally in the former Forrest Park. "It's not going to be 20 or 30," Edward said. "It's going to be thousands of klansmen from the whole United States coming to Memphis, Tennessee." According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors the Klan, all four of the known Klan groups in Tennessee are small and fairly disorganized. So, it was unclear if such a large rally was even possible. Still, the city’s top administrator, George Little, said that critics, including the KKK, were free to protest. "Should they do so and gather lawfully, then we wouldn't get any more involved with that than we would with any other group," Little said. The move by the Memphis council was meant to counter efforts in the Tennessee legislature to preserve Confederacy-related names. So, do you think they are trying to rewrite history? Do you think it's time for old symbols of the south to fade away?
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