Taylor Swift Condemns Monuments of ‘Racist Historical Figures’ in Tennessee: ‘Villains Don’t Deserve Statues’
thewrap.comtaken down on May 30 by protesters — and to consider the “implications of how hurtful it would be to continue fighting for these monuments.”In a Friday thread on Twitter, the singer said it made her feel “sick” that there were still monuments in her home state that “celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things.” She went on to explain that Carmack was a “white supremacist newspaper editor who published pro-lynching editorials and incited the arson of the office of Ida B.
Wells (who actually deserves a hero’s statue for her pioneering work in journalism and civil rights)” while Forrest was a Confederate soldier who was a “brutal slave trader and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.”“Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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