Confederate License Plate Proposed To Honor Ku Klux Klan Leader

» by Sha Stimuli February 10, 2011, 11:00am

Mississippi License Plate Proposed to Honor KKK Leader

The Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to sponsor a series of state-issued license plates to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

In 2014, one of the designs proposed is set to honor Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who happened to be an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

Forrest led the 1864 massacre of Black Union troops at Fort Pillow, Tennessee and was a Klan grand wizard after the war.

However, he was called a military genius, and a Christian that distanced himself from the hate group in his later years.

Sons of Confederate Veterans member Greg Stewart stated, "If Christian redemption means anything — and we all want redemption, I think — he redeemed himself in his own time, in his own actions, in his own words."

According to the Associated Press, NAACP president Derrick Johnson was told about the Forrest plate and responded, "Seriously?...Wow."

I guess Forrest had a role to redepemption too...

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Pearls n Polos

This is unacceptable.....
The Bank

Don't these people know...The South Lost.
Carl Rollberg

One of the people who have replied to this proposal and stated it's a freedom of speech. This means they have a right to speak about or even propose things, but it has to do with honor. Forrest does not deserve to be honored. If the Confederacy won the war, this might be a different story. He was a black hater. supposedly later in life he regretted his legacy. We are the United States of America, not the North and South. America needs to promote racial harmony. Don't call yourself an American if you aren't for all Americans and freedom.