Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument

The Good The removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest monument was a much needed change in the Memphis Tn. community, and created more racial unity in a city filled with past haunting of many racial injustices. This statue represented an image of hatred and separated this city for many years, which caused a true divide in a city that’s involving into a racially mixed community. As I visited the park where the tall haunting statue once stood, I could feel how even allowing such an image to be erected in the heart of this city, can truly cause a person of color or other ethic races to feel inferior. The reason for removing this statue of a slave owner and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was to start the healing process and move this city into …show more content…
Removing this statue has broken down a lot of invisible hurdles that hindered blacks in this city. These hurdles were the cities stance on the white supremacism and dominance over black people. This city is moving into a new direction of racial equality and these small yet efficient steps are truly helping with the integration of different races to become unified and work together to improve each other and not hurt each other. Removing this image of suppression and hate will cause the next generation to feel they are living in a city filled with promise and opportunity. Our future as a city depends on what we hold on too and what we let go of. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his gravesite can still be remembered, but only on private property. Our children and our future depends on removing all images associated with hatred and …show more content…
Many black people could now feel comfortable in a city that has neglected them for numerous years and can see a positive physical change in the landscape of this city. This city has taken the first steps to unit what it has separated, build what it has destroyed, and heal what it has hurt. This city needed a positive push in the right direction and our city leaders are recognizing the impact this significant act has done to the motivation of the people of Memphis. The youth of Memphis now have a better chance of living in a well-diversified city where they now have more opportunity to become a productive citizen of a rapidly growing municipality. Our future generations now have hope that they will be a part of the revitalization of the city and not restricted to the causes of Memphis demise. The city of Memphis has put forth a significant effort to equalize every citizen with this gesture and now can focus on what it can do to correct other issues. The removal of this statue comes at a very critical point in Memphis history. Martin Luther King was assassinated here in Memphis fifty years ago by raciest people who wanted segregation to last and wanted to keep black people in a continuous bind, but now that this statue is moved we can see a

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