Klan Rallies for Confederacy in Memphis

By NCD on Sun, 03/31/2013 - 1:59am |

City parks named after the Klan's first Grand Wizard and other leaders of the Confederate States of America are being renamed in Memphis, 'bout time I suppose, KKK'ers can still honor the Stars and Bars on their pick-ups, alongside NRA stickers and the popular mudflaps with the chrome babes:

..The Klan had called members across the country to Memphis. The rally was the latest response to the council’s decision on Feb. 5 to rename parks whose names it felt were racially insensitive and unwelcoming to black residents.

The old names were Confederate Park; Jefferson Davis Park, named for the Confederacy’s president; and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, named for a Confederate lieutenant general and the Klan’s first grand wizard. The new names are Memphis Park, Mississippi River Park and Health Sciences Park...

URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/us/klan-protests-renaming-of-3-confederate-parks-in-memphis.html?hp