Confederate "Hertitage" Month 2018, April 21: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis still have fans in Tennessee

The City of Memphis recently removed statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedfort Forrest from public parks. Because of state-level opposition, they resorted to selling the two parks involved to a nonprofit at a nominal price, and the non-profit removed them.

Now the Tennessee state legislature has retaliated by cutting $250,000 from an appropriation in retaliation: Alex Horton, Tennessee lawmakers punish Memphis for removing statue of Confederate and KKK leader Washington Post 04/18/2018.

Real-time neo-Confederacy.

The Young Turks reported on it in State Punishes City Over Racist Monuments 04/18/2018:

See also: Joel Ebert, Was the $250,000 for Memphis added so lawmakers could take it away? Debate swirls in the statehouse Tenneessean 04/20/2018

Chris Herrington, In punishing Memphis, state lawmakers embarrassed themselves Tennessean 04/18/2018

Tonyaa Weathersbee, Posturing to punish Memphis for removing statues was a page out of a plantation master's playbook Tennessean 04/18/2018

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2017, April 27: Neo-Confederacy in the Tennessee legislature

The Tennessee legislature had a dust-up last week over honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, notorious Confederate war criminal and postwar Ku Klux Klan leader:

Joel Ebert reports in Tensions rise in House after lawmakers unwittingly vote to honor Klan leader Tennessean/USA Today Network 04/27/2017, "One day after an Associated Press report that House lawmakers unwittingly voted in favor of a resolution honoring the achievements of Confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan Nathan Bedford Forrest, tensions boiled over the lower chamber."

A video report is available at House Black Caucus leader responds to resolution for Nathan Bedford Forrest Tennessean 04/27/2017.

Neo-Confederacy is still with us.