Figure it out ...

You fucking "Southern Heritage" assholes better figure out which America you want to live in. The war is over and you lost. Slavery, and the institutions that supported it, is nothing to celebrate. If you commemorate Confederate generals (especially this motherfucker), you're supporting treason. Period.

And for good measure: You should be ashamed of your history, not proud of it.

Update:

And for those of you who are breaking my balls, are you telling me this is something to be proud of?

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Forrest was most known for directing a massacre of black Union soldiers who had already laid down their arms at Fort Pillow in April 1864.

"It is in connection with one of the most atrocious and cold-blooded massacres that ever disgraced civilized warfare that his name will for ever be inseparably associated," according to an obituary published in The New York Times at his death in 1877.

"The garrison was seized with a panic: the men threw down their arms and sought safety in flight toward the river, in the neighboring ravine, behind logs, bushes, trees, and in fact everywhere where there was a chance for concealment. It was in vain. The captured fort and its vicinity became a human shambles."

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Following the war, Forrest worked to bring disparate Klan groups under a centralized authority. He was eventually elected Grand Wizard.

"Forrest probably did not object to the violence, per se, as a means of restoring the pre-war hierarchy, but as a military man, he deplored the lack of discipline and structure that defined the growing KKK," according to a biography by PBS' Antiques Roadshow.

"I am not an enemy of the negro," Forrest was quoted as saying. "We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have."

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Go ahead, defend him and those of his like.