Two incidences within the last 24 hours assure most that at least in some form or fashion the 'redenck", "civil war" mentality is strong and bountiful in the good ole USA.
See CNN Video here on Montana "birther" stance.
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| GEN. Nathan Bedford Forrest |
As if the "birther" campaign isn't enough, Mississippi wants to institute a license plate honoring Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest whom is at best, is or was the Aliester Crawley of his time. Gen. Forrest's war crimes at the "battle of Fort Pillow" are well documented.
Nathan B. Forrest also served as the first Grand "poobah" Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against blacks and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South.
African-American leaders have reacted with shock at a plan to feature an early Ku Klux Klan leader on Mississippi license plates.
The proposal by the Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) asked that the state issue a series of license plates between now and 2015 to honor the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
A 2014 plate would feature Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who became an important leader of the Klan after the war.
Forrest was most known for directing a massacre of black Union soldiers who had already laid down their arms at Fort Pillow in April 1864.
"It is in connection with one of the most atrocious and cold-blooded massacres that ever disgraced civilized warfare that his name will for ever be inseparably associated," according to an obituary published in The New York Times at his death in 1877.
"The garrison was seized with a panic: the men threw down their arms and sought safety in flight toward the river, in the neighboring ravine, behind logs, bushes, trees, and in fact everywhere where there was a chance for concealment. It was in vain. The captured fort and its vicinity became a human shambles."
"The news of the massacre aroused the whole country to a paroxysm of horror and fury," the Times added.
"Forrest probably did not object to the violence, per se, as a means of restoring the pre-war hierarchy, but as a military man, he deplored the lack of discipline and structure that defined the growing KKK," according to a biography by PBS' Antiques Roadshow.NAACP president Derrick Johnson reacted with surprise when first told about SCV plans to honor Forrest.
"Seriously?" he said. "Wow."
A Facebook page titled "Mississippians Against The Commemoration Of Grand Wizard Nathan Forrest" had 820 members at the time of publication.
"We are united in sending a message to the state government of Mississippi that WE WILL NOT STAND for the public glorification of one of the original leaders of the Ku Klux Klan," the page said.
Robert McElvaine, director of the history department at the private Millsaps College in Jackson and a member of the Facebook group, told The Associated Press that Forrest should should not be honored due to his role in the massacre.
"The idea of celebrating such a person, whatever his accomplishments in other areas may have been, seems like a very poor idea," he said.
Celebrating Forrest is not something that is unprecedented in the South. In 1998, a statue was erected of the Civil War leader in Nashville, Tennessee.
NFTOS occupies space and resides in the glorious state of Virginia. "having live here for over 35 years you see this "hillbilly" mentality constantly in the south" said Roger West, Editor-in-Chief of NFTOS.
Since African Americans started voting in the south - openly racist position are not rare to find, but here is what history tells us.
In 1948 Strom Thurmond running on a segregationist platform carried LA, MS, AL and SC.
In 1968 George Wallace carried AR, GA, LA, MS, AL, all of these states are about 1/3 black except AR which was at 15% .
Average Black Victims of Lynchings per year per 100,000 Blacks 1882-1930In a 50 year adult life time a black male in most of these states would have had a more than 2% probability of being Lynched.
Virginia 38.0
Mississippi 52.8
Georgia 41.8
Louisiana 43.7
Alabama 32.4
South Carolina 18.8
Florida 79.8
Tennessee 38.4
Arkansas 42.6
Kentucky 45.7
North Carolina 11.0
It would appear with Montana, Mississippi, that "lynching's" still exist in some fashion in America circa 2011.
There is no "MOST" Racist state in our "Union".......... the most racist are the people of these United States.
All states have the same problem, and the amount of racism depends on what type of racism you are talking about, and so it appears that still today African Americans are still exposed to "racial lynching's".
NFTOS
