When all else fails, you can always count on a Nathan Bedford Forrest monument to stir up a mess. This one’s in Selma, AL and got vandalized back in March. Now it’s about to get repaired, but there’s a petition going around asking the city council to take the whole thing down.
The thing is, neither the monument nor the land on which it sits belong to the city. It was on public property when first erected in 2000, but a ruckus ensued which resulted in its relocation to a plot owned by the UDC following year. What do the petitioners expect the city council to do about a monument on private land? Your guess is as good as mine.
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The Forrest statue in Nashville, along I-65, is the worst statue I’ve ever seen. It’s an embarrassment.
That’s a statue of Forrest? I thought that was supposed to be My Little Pony on a bad acid trip.
I’m with you on that one. It’s hideous.
–ML