Taylor Swift calls for permanent removal of Tennessee monuments that 'celebrate racist historical figures'
Taylor Swift called for the permanent removal of monuments that "celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things" in Tennessee.called for the permanent removal of monuments that “celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things” in her native Tennessee.
“Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such,” Swift wrote inSwift said of the statue for the one-time Tennessee senator, “Edward Carmack’s statue was sitting in the state Capitol until it was torn down last week in the protests. The state of Tennessee has vowed to replace it.
FYI, he was a white supremacist newspaper editor who published pro-lynching editorials and incited the arson of the office of Ida B. Wells . Replacing his statue is a waste of state funds and a waste of an opportunity to do the right thing.” Then we get to this monstrosity. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a brutal slave trader and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who, during the Civil War, massacred dozens of black Union soldiers in Memphis.
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