quote Originally posted by Hudini: The quicker they can hide it the quicker they can blame others. They know no shame.

I can't hear you, Hudini. I can't hear anything on this line. I guess it's that interference that keeps cropping up. Where is that coming from? From MAGA World? From Mar-a-Blog'o? From one of the "Trumplican" Republicans that are among us? Is it the Right Wing Reactionary or Fringe Right presence that's long time (way too long time) been palpable here?

Maybe cvxjet has an idea about it--but I have not seen him show up here recently.

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Confederate flag and singing of "Dixie" at the exhumation of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains in Memphis!

quote The remains of early Ku Klux Klan leader and Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest were finally being exhumed from a Memphis park, and the Black woman who led a long battle for the change was there to mark the moment. But as activist-turned-elected-official Tami Sawyer prepared to address reporters, a man waved a Confederate flag behind her. Pacing back and forth, he called the Shelby County commissioner a “communist.” Then he started singing “Dixie,” the anthem of the Old South. “This hatred and this racism is large and loud,” [Shelby Country commissioner Tami] Sawyer said as he sang. She added, “I’m not going to let him win.” . . .

"Memphis is digging up the remains of a Confederate general who led the early KKK"
Brittany Shammas for the Washington Post; June 3, 2021.
https://www.washingtonpost....confederate-remains/

The "commish" [Shelby Country commissioner Tami Sawyer] has filed for charges over the incident, alleging crimes of harassment and intimidation on the part of George Johnson, who brandished the Confederate flag and provided the a capella performance of "Dixie." Memphis PD is providing some extra protection for Sawyer in the aftermath of this incident.

Janice Broach for WMC5 Memphis; June 3, 2021.
https://www.wmcactionnews5....r-string-of-threats/
'Click' right here to reveal how the Confederacy thrives proudly in modern day Memphis!

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Betsy Phillips just checked in with a ZESTY column for the Nashville Scene.

"Forrest's Remains, the National Confederate Museum and Racist Hate"

quote The Columbia-based museum is elevating Confederates who were early Klan leaders

Betsy Phillips for the Nashville Scene; June 7, 2021.
https://www.nashvillescene....seum-and-racist-hate

This is a good time to remind anyone who might be reading this (if there is any such person) that my practice in citing or presenting articles from online media (etc.) is to quote the title and the "nut graf" (also "nut graph") that often accompanies the title. (That's a sentence or two immediately below the title that is often part of the set up for the article).

I do that for reference, even if I do not agree 100 percent or even more than zero percent with the assertions or observations that are conveyed by the set up for the article.

Here's the first paragraph:

quote So, they’re digging up old Nathan Bedford Forrest over in Memphis. The disinterment is going like hell. Confederates yelled at Tami Sawyer. They damaged a Black Lives Matter display. A righteous man burned a Confederate flag and now the spokesperson for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Lee Millar, is begging people to just stay away. He told WREG: “We don’t want anyone to come down. We don’t want anything stirred up. Just leave things alone and don’t come bother the construction workers or anybody else in the park.”

ZESTY?

The entire column Read-o-Meters to just over 7 minutes. OK--almost 8 minutes. About halfway in between.

It starts with a "period" photograph from 1906.

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