Racism in America/ After the KKK Rally Part II
Sat, April 6, 2013 11:00 am
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KKK Rally Over Renaming Of Parks In Memphis Draws Opposition From Sons of Confederate Veterans
The Huffington Post | By Paige Lavender Posted: 02/18/2013 11
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/kkk-rally-_n_2711390.html
...The KKK applied for a permit to hold a March 30 rally in opposition to the renaming of three parks -- Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park. The Tennessee leader of the KKK reportedly told Action News 5 the gathering would be "the largest rally Memphis, Tennessee has ever seen."
...Despite his opposition to the KKK rally, Millar said he agreed the park names should be left alone.
"These are 100 year old historic parks," Millar said. "They need to leave the names alone. By changing them, they're bringing a lot of rage among the citizens of Memphis and drawing personal attention and negative attention to Memphis trying to erase history."
Uproar over the renaming of parks began in Feb. 2012. The AP reported earlier:
The statue of Confederate fighter Nathan Bedford Forrest astride a horse towers above the Memphis park bearing his name. It's a larger-than-life tribute to the warrior still admired by many for fiercely defending the South in the Civil War – and scorned by others for a slave-trading past and ties to the Ku Klux Klan.Though the bloodiest war on American soil was fought 150 years ago, racially tinged discord flared before its City Council voted this week to strip Forrest's name from the downtown park and call it Health Sciences Park. It also voted to rename Confederate Park as Memphis Park and Jefferson Davis Park as Mississippi River Park.