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https://fox17.com/news/local/large-statue-of-confederate-general-kkk-leader-nathan-bedford-forrest-along-tennessee-interstate-i65-removed-from-its-pedestal-nashville-tennessee
And, yes, it's the utterly insane-looking one:
hyperchondriac
Momma said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes people do things that just make no sense.
RalphH
#2 is my fetish!
Destro2077
Nathan Bedford was a shitty human being who slaughtered surrendered soldiers and was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. Fuck him.
JoeyJoeJoeSeniorShabadoo
Nashville Nutcracker
initforthespecs
Bye bitch
Nunyajonesinc
Yeah, if the guy that founded the KKK is "muh hurritige" you're a fucking asshole
RagingNorseman
I read that as "shooting himself".
Promethianfire
So many of these statues are just terrible on artistic merit alone.
shyasen
Maybe this is what he actually looked like. Might explain a lot.
Promethianfire
No, I've seen Ken Burns Civil War documentary enough times to know what he looked like
tomatoboy
Ignoring the awful human being it represented for just a second, this was the single most hideous statute I’ve ever driven past. Like, it’s…
Imalwaysready
Yep. It's not just art about a bad subject, but it was also just bad art. Double fail.
tomatoboy
…bad enough to make a statue of him, but hoo boy, couldn’t even not make it look like a cartoon, then subjected people to driving past it.
shyasen
Maybe this is what he actually looked like. This would explain a lot. Dude was fucking crazy.
Preincarnated
Nashville's often pegged as the next hip town, but it has a lot of un-hip stuff below the surface it still needs to work through.
tomatoboy
Yeah, I lived in Nashville for six years, it’s got some real ugliness under the veneer of hipsters and bachelorette parties.
tomatoboy
And I say that as somebody whose lived in the metro areas of Birmingham and Baltimore, so I’m not coming from the perspective of innocence.
tomatoboy
*who’s (damn autocorrect, stop fixing my apostrophes)
Preincarnated
I used to hang around 5 Points in Birmingham in the 90s. Good clubs and venues.
Imalwaysready
I visited Baltimore and downtown was super weird. It was like all graffiti and bars and homeless for one block, then a shiny new bank >
Imalwaysready
skyscraper on the next, then a church from the 1700s on the next, then repeat and mix and match randomly. Strange urban patchwork.
tomatoboy
Baltimore is a very cyclical city. It will have massive development for a few years, wither, and then start back up again. It’s never…