Taylor Swift weighs in on the ongoing debate about the preservation of Confederate monuments: “As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things.”
, however, a House committee voted to keep the bust instead of replacing it with another figure.
“It was not against the law to own slaves back then,” Republican state Rep. Jerry Sexton said during aForrest was a Confederate Army general and a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. While the Forrest bust is still standing, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will no longer proclaim Nathan Bedford Forrest Dayabout whether it should be resurrected have emerged. Swift believes doing so would be a “waste of state funds and a waste of an opportunity to do the right thing.” She is calling on the Capitol Commission and the Tennessee Historical Commission to “consider the implications of how hurtful it would be to continue fighting for these monuments.
“Taking down statues isn’t going to fix centuries of systemic oppression, violence and hatred that black people have had to endure but it might bring us one small step closer to making ALL Tennesseans and visitors to our state feel safe — not just the white ones,” Swift wrote. “When you fight to honor racists, you show black Tennesseans and all of their allies where you stand, and you continue this cycle of hurt. You can’t change history, but you can change this.
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