One Man’s Freedom Fighter…
By From a recent story about attempts to restore a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest — a man who should be honored only by the application of urine to his gravesite — in Selma:
“We take the position that, in this country, we’re allowed to venerate our heroes,” said Todd Kiscaden, a Friends of Forrest member overseeing the construction. “There’s a monument to Martin Luther King in town. We don’t deface that monument. We don’t harass people. So let us enjoy the same treatment.”
Look, we all have heroes to venerate. Some are actual heroes; some are war criminals on behalf of “one of the worst [causes] for which a people ever fought” and then terrorists on behalf of apartheid.