"....the legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest. At this writing the state of Mississippi is considering whether to honor that legacy through the issuance of vanity license pates.....The request to honor Forrest was made by the Mississippi branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group often found neck deep in attempts to rewrite and sanitize the odious history of the Confederacy.
On April 12, it will be 150 years since the Civil War began. And yet even after all that time, some of us are still unable to conquer the moral cowardice exemified by Gov. Barbour and the Sons of Confrederate Veterans.
The South fought in defense of racism and slavery. It was soundly defeated, racism and slavery soundy repudiated. You'd think from that loss the South would have learned signal lessons of human rights and human dignity.
You wish the South would finally accept that and move on. Instead, too many in that storied region are still absorbed in fighting a war that ended in 1865, seeking to vindicate a cause long ago lost. A man who betrayed his country, founded a terrorist group and committed mass murder is a man unworthy of honor."