{"id":37937,"date":"2019-07-14T00:11:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T00:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37937"},"modified":"2019-07-14T00:11:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T00:11:32","slug":"how-can-you-honor-a-klansman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37937","title":{"rendered":"How can you ‘honor’ a Klansman?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How in the name of human decency can a governor of one of our 50 states proclaim a desire to honor the memory of a Ku Klux Klan leader?<\/p>\n

That’s what happened in Tennessee, where Gov. Bill Lee signed a proclamation honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, a onetime Confederate general \u2026 who also happened to be a slave trader and a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

Honor a Klansman? Really?<\/a><\/p>\n

This is disgraceful in the extreme. Lee’s declaration has drawn rebuke, understandably, from Democrats but also from fellow Republicans, such as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.<\/p>\n

“This is wrong,” Cruz said on Twitter. “Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general & delegate to the 1868 Democratic convention. He was also a slave trader 1st Grand Wizard of the KKK. Tennessee should not have an official day honoring him. Change the law.”<\/p>\n

Cruz also said he doesn’t necessarily disagree with honoring Confederate soldiers, but that’s another topic for another day.<\/p>\n

Any law that sanctions such commemoration of individuals who took part in brutality against fellow human beings, such as the Klan, must be repealed.<\/p>\n

Gov. Lee said he was following the law. Are you kidding? Does the law require<\/em> a governor to honor someone who sanctioned the killing of others because of their race?<\/p>\n

Disgraceful.<\/p>\n\n

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How in the name of human decency can a governor of one of our 50 states proclaim a desire to honor the memory of a Ku Klux Klan leader? That’s what happened in Tennessee, where Gov. Bill Lee signed a proclamation honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, a onetime Confederate general \u2026 who also happened to be … Continue reading How can you ‘honor’ a Klansman?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,2692,8777,4286,4537],"class_list":["post-37937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-confederacy","tag-kkk","tag-nathan-bedford-forrest","tag-slavery","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37939,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37937\/revisions\/37939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}