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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConfederate Dunce: Alabama Lawmaker Who Honored KKK Grand Wizard Instead of John Lewis Resigns--as Pa
Confederate Dunce: Alabama Lawmaker Who Honored KKK Grand Wizard Instead of John Lewis Resignsas PastorIt takes a staunch commitment to racist foolishness to celebrate the life of a Confederate general and Klan figurehead in 2020. To do so on the very same weekend, in the very same city that civil rights icon John Lewis was being honored? How much harder can you stan Jim Crow?
But that is exactly what Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes didattending a ceremony honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, the KKKs first grand wizard, in Selma, Ala., on the weekend a carriage carrying Lewis body came into town, reports The Washington Post. The procession honoring the longtime Georgia congressman traced the path Lewis walked in 1965, when he led protesters on a march across Selmas Edmund Pettus Bridge.
But why honor one of Americas actual founding fathers when you can (checks notes) honor a racist, slave-owning terrorist?
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Man, if Jesus wasnt weeping before, he sure has to be now.
More: https://www.theroot.com/confederate-dunce-alabama-lawmaker-who-honored-kkk-gra-1844563094
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Confederate Dunce: Alabama Lawmaker Who Honored KKK Grand Wizard Instead of John Lewis Resigns--as Pa (Original Post)
sheshe2
Jul 2020
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bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)1. I saw Dismukes had done that. It was at 'Forest's birthday celebration' that a woman holds every yr
IIRC I read about it on a blog AL.com.
The 'celebration' was at about the same time Lewis' casket was going over the bridge.
The woman, I believe, is a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She apparently holds this birthaday celebration every yr and usually has some 'cute pickaninni feature with watermelon'
sheshe2
(84,057 posts)3. Jesus wept.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)2. He blames 'anti-southern culture' and people being 'sensitive' WOW
He really needs to get out of his bubble