US Civil War - still with us
A group was fed up with waiting, so they got a shovel and dug up a patch of grass next to Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grave and statue in a public park in the Medical District. The group says they wanted the statue and remains removed for a long time, because he was a Confederate soldier, a KKK leader and a slave trader. “If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,” said [a random insane person]… The group told WREG if the process took too long, the could take more drastic measures.…
Update — A Tennessee man drove across the state to repair the damage…
Ralph Nader inteviewing Judge Napolitano about Abraham Lincoln [video]
Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War... these [48] photographs [were] taken 150 years ago -- providing a glimpse of a United States that was only 85 years old at the time.