What? Who was that hero? The FOUNDER of the KKK?

Jacksonville FL

Description

Yeah, Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK. Robert E. Lee was the leader of the Confederate Forces. Jacksonville rises to the level of national attention because we have so many reminders of racism a cartoon puts our city in the spotlight. Most ALL Confederate monuments, name changing, dedications, they were placed in order to intimidate newly freed slaves and keep them afraid of whites. Nothing less than intimidation. The United Daughters of the Confederacy are responsible for most of the “monuments”; an organization that attempted to change the narrative to heritage and southern tradition rather than pure bigotry and abject racism through the continuation of slavery! “ Eventually they started to build [Confederate] monuments. The vast majority of them were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s research, the biggest spike was between 1900 and the 1920s. In contrast to the earlier memorials that mourned dead soldiers, these monuments tended to glorify leaders of the Confederacy like General Robert E. Lee, former President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and General “Thomas Stonewall” Jackson.” "Most of the people who were involved in erecting the monuments were not necessarily erecting a monument to the past," said Jane Dailey, an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago."But were rather, erecting them toward a white supremacist future." Homage to racism and racists do not create unity or equality. Stop being an enabler of racism in Jacksonville! Remove offensive remnants of our racist past! Only you deep bigots see anything but the real racism that it is. The South lost the Civil War. It’s past time to quit pretending you didn’t! NO ONE HAS JUSTICE UNTIL WE ALL HAVE JUSTICE!