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>> to a lot of people this monument as a symbol of racism. >> ive been accused of being racist. and if i was racist why would i -- >> i still consider this meaning tennessee, to be the confederate states of america says the man. that is how he explained why he put up that sculpture we just put up. made from babcock and stuff. shaped with a butcher knife he says. thats why you put up that statue that was created by the lawyer for the man who killed martin luther king. it is a statue that depicts ...

Physically buried underneath it. nathan bedford forrests body and his wife was under that statue in that memphis park. when they started digging after they took down the statue, it turns out, the directions they had werent exactly right. they werent directly under the statue. they were kind of under the plaza in front of where the statue had been. it took them a while hunting around to find the caskets. they did finally find the remains. they made a plan to rebury them this fall, a few weeks ago...

But then look at what they had to do in order to get it done. local nbc five in memphis, tennessee, got an exclusive look at this. this is just astonishing. and again, remember, this is the confederate general, wealthy slave trader, first grand wizard of the ku klux klan, nathan bedford forrest. >> all of a, along with the soil, transferred into temporary caskets for transporting. with the remains of a man both reviled and revered and the weight of a city divided on its shoulders, taylor ordered...

That is how he explained why he put up that sculpture we just showed you, made from bathtub caulk and stuff, with a butcher knife. thats why he put up that statue, that was created by the lawyer for the man who killed martin luther king. a man on a horse. theres no way you would know this, is a man named nathan bedford forrest. nathan bedford forrest was a plantation owner. a very wealthy slave trader. a general in the confederate army. after the civil war was over, he became the first grand wiz...

Poisonous rhetoric about border patrol officers are overwhelmingly hispanic side away and they are paid annually only a fraction of what hunter pockets from one lousy painting but by mimicking out sharpton on race, they make themselves look more petty and less serious. it is all one big change of subject move on their part, from the images of migrant squalor and audio to the images of slave trader border agents on horseback, the truth is president biden is to blame for both images which is why h...

0 you watching. please set your dvr in never miss an episode. we promised this coming youll never get this news from the media mob. in the meantime have a great weekend and let not your hearts be troubled, "the ingraham angle" is next. have a great weekend coming int you monday. >>laura: im laura: this is the ingraham angle from washington. lets start off. president biden goes full sharpton. thats the focus of the angle. >> to see people treated like they did. horses running over, people being s...

. nathan bedford forest is one of the greatest villains of american history, and you may not know too much about him depending on what you learned in school. hes plantation owner and slave trader who quickly became a general. his most infamous act in that position in the war came at the battle of fort pillow in 1864 when his soldiers slaughtered many troops, many of whom were black and attempting to surrender. it was an atrocity. it was recognized as such at the time. this was an article from ...

The remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and leader of the Ku Klux Klan, will be moved from Memphis to a Confederate museum 200 miles away.

A statue of slave trader Edward Colston that was toppled during a Black Lives Matter protest will go on public display on Friday. The bronze memorial to the 17th century merchant had stood in the city since 1895, but was pulled from its plinth during the demonstration on June 7 last year.

With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvard’s director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites? Only whites? Nonwhites? Are payments owed before the United States became a country? Former University of California, Los Angeles, historian Roger McGrath wr...