Quote (Plaguefear @ Jun 18 2020 05:09am)
And why tennessee is vowing to rebuild it?
Its pretty hard to say that racism is dead when there is a statue to a guy pretty much only known for his racism, lynching encouragement and violent death trying to murder a business rival and people want to it to be rebuilt?
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Throughout his career, Carmack was known to use his newspapers to attack rivals. During Carmack's tenure with the Appeal, his editorials began an interesting dialogue with another famous Tennessee journalist, Ida B. Wells. Wells, known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", was also not one to withhold her opinions and spoke out about the plight of African Americans in the post-Reconstruction era in the South. Memphis in the 1890s was a hotbed of racial tension, and lynching crimes were commonplace. Wells launched an anti-lynching campaign in her newspaper, Free Speech.
Sounds like a pretty average dude. Why are you leftists foaming at the mouth to destroy history and impose 1984 minitrue?