"KKK group given permit to hold event at Gettysburg battlefield"

[brtmchl]

I agree, this is in such bad taste. Didn't the KKK hold a rally once at the Lincoln memorial just after MLK Jr. Gave his " I have a dream speech?"

In other news:

It seems that the "White-washing" of famous Confederates is in full swing once again.

Duval County School Board: Change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School

Petition by

Emma Sparks

Jacksonville
Nathan Bedford Forrest High School is a public institution that provides an education for children in Jacksonville, Florida. The man for which this school is named, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and a person who fought violently against equality for all Americans. To celebrate and honor a known racist in this manner is a stain on our public education system. It is cruel and humiliating to require American students to attend an institution that in name glorifies bigotry. This petition is a call to change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School. We demand that our schools honor and celebrate those who stand on the right side of history. Racism and bigotry has no place in our school system.
http://www.change.org/petitions/duval-co...igh-school

Forrest will eventually be reduced only to a racist in history, his leadership and military genius during the Civil War will be completely swept away leaving only " the white hood " of racism in it's wake. There will be no mention of his heroics in battle, or the aftermath of Reconstruction or the fact that Sherman, who in the Civil War had recognized what a deadly foe Forrest was, wrote back a reply after the crisis of the Virginius Affair and the near war with Spain had settled down. He thanked Forrest for his offer of service and said that had war broken out he would have considered it an honor to have served side-by-side with him.. Just the deplorable acts of the KKK. Which Forrest said he sympathized with, but denied any formal connection.

I want to make it clear that I do not support any celebration, or honoring any clan members. The KKK is a horable stain on America. It represents the very cancer of racism that our country has been fighting to overcome. I simply believe that erasing history is wrong. That school wasn't named after Forrest because of any involvement with the KKK.

Maybe the school will change the name to Honorable Senator Robert Byrd High School, who is miraculosly celebrated and in 2007 was named person of the year. ( I am being sarcastic ).