Can we make an exception and leave tat one up?
No but seriously I love this statue. It represents everything about Confederate monuments, to me. It looks nothing like real life, it’s simultaneously cartoonish and incredibly unfortunate, and it was clearly made by somebody with more stubbornness than common sense. Also it’s ugly as shit.
This is that one on the highway outside of Nashville! I spent my childhood having to see that hideous thing every time we went to the airport or to see a show at TPAC
most Nashvillians have cherished, violent fantasies of destroying it, but it’s on private property and the owner is a gun hoarder as well as a racist. The city keeps asking the state if they can plant shrubs in front of it to block it from view. The state keeps refusing
It’s meant to be Nathan Bedford Forrest
And if someone tears it down, I think the mayor will give them the key to the city